Quantitative analysis of performance on a progressive-ratio schedule: Effects of reinforcer type, food deprivation and acute treatment with δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 122-131

  Olarte Sanchez C M ^a,b   Valencia Torres, L ^a,b   Cassaday, H J ^a   Bradshaw, C M ^a   Szabadi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corn oil; Food deprivation; Incentive value; Mathematical model; Mathematical principles of reinforcement; Progressive ratio schedule; Rat; Sucrose; 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; DRONABINOL; SUCROSE; APPETITE STIMULANT; SWEETENING AGENT;

BODY MASS; CANNIBALISM; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; FOOD LIMITATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALS; APPETITE STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORN OIL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRONABINOL; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD DEPRIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 84922423561     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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