Environmental enrichment, administered after establishment of cocaine self-administration, reduces lever pressing in extinction and during a cocaine context renewal test

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-353

  Ranaldi, Robert ^a,b   Kest, Karen ^b   Zellner, Margaret ^a   Hachimine Semprebom, Priscila ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; craving; drug abuse; environmental enrichment; psychostimulants; rat

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 79960700613     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283487365     Document Type: Article

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