Chronic exposure to a gambling-like schedule of reward predictive stimuli can promote sensitization to amphetamine in rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Zack, Martin ^a   Featherstone, Robert E ^b   Mathewson, Sarah ^a   Fletcher, Paul J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Dopamine; Pathological gambling; Sensitization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894077333     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00036     Document Type: Article

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