Validation of a novel social investigation task that may dissociate social motivation from exploratory activity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 326-333

  Deak, Terrence ^a   Arakawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Bekkedal, Marni Y V ^b   Panksepp, Jaak ^c,d  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Exploration; Haloperidol; Morphine; Naltrexone; Rats; Social investigation; Social preference

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HALOPERIDOL; LIGHTING; MALE; MORPHINE; MOTIVATION; NALTREXONE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 61549113130     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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