Conditioned ejaculatory preference in male rats paired with haloperidol-treated females

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-121

  Ismail, Nafissa ^a   Laroche, Clemence ^a   Girard Bériault, Fabienne ^a   Ménard, Shann ^a   Greggain Mohr, Jonathan A ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology Groupe de Recherche en Neurobiologie Comportementale   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Dopamine antagonist; Pacing; Sexual behavior; Sexual reward

Indexed keywords

HALOPERIDOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EJACULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HALOPERIDOL; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL;

EID: 77950947124     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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