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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors To This Volume; Foreword; Chapter 1 Neurobiological Aspects of Drug-Seeking Behaviors; Introduction; Neurobiological Substrates of Drug Seeking; Neurobiological Substrates of Other Drug Effects; Neuronal Substrates of Drug Reinforcement; Chapter 2 A Behavioral assay For Receptor Action(s) of Drugs; Introduction; Behavioral Preparation; Data Analysis; Advantages of Operant Behavior as a Bioassay; Neuronal Models; Noradrenergic Model; Dopaminergic Model; Serotonergic Model |
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Interaction of Clonidine and Alpha-Noradrenergic AntaIJonistsInteraction of Yohimbine and Dopaminergic Agonist. Apomorphine; Interaction of Mianserin and Serotonergic Agonist. LSD; Summary; Chapter 3 Force and Duration of Operant Responses as Dependent Variables in Behavioral Pharmacology; Introduction; Background and Conceptual Issues; Measurement Concepts; Effects of Behavior-Controlling Variables on Force and Duration; Drug Effects on Force and Duration of Operant Response; Summary; Chapter 4 The Antiaversive Action Of Drugs; Introduction |
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Effect of Systemically Administered Drugs on Behavior Determined by Aversive Brain Electrical StimulationMechanisms of Antiaversive Drug Action; General Discussion and Conclusions; Chapter 5 Behavioral Effects of Anticonvulsant Drugs; Introduction; Behavioral Loci and Mechanisms of Drug Action; Anticonvulsants and Schedule-Controlled Responding; Anticonvulsants and Delayed-Matching- To-Sample Performance; Anticonvulsants and Repeated Acquisition; Anticonvulsant Effects Under Automaintenance and Negative Automaintenance Procedures; Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Anticonvulsants; Summary |
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Chapter 6 Computerized Ethological Pharmacology: The New SynthesisIntroduction; Strategy and Technical Equipment for Ethopharmacological Experiments; Mathematical Models and Methodological Problems in Ethopharmacology; Ethopharmacological Profiles of Psychotropic Drug Effects and Modification of Behavior According to Expected Patterns; Neuroethological Mechanisms and Ethopharmacological Control of Aggression Defense. And Sociability; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Initiation of Ethanol-Maintained Behavior: A Comparison of Animal Models and Their Implication to Human Drinking; Introduction |
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Animal Models of Initiation of Oral Ethanol Self-AdministrationSummary of Animal Initiation Models; Human Ethanol Drinking Initiation; Comparison of Human and Animal Ethanol Initiation; Summary; Chapter 8 Animal Models in Neurotoxicology: The NeurobehavioraL Effects of Chlordecone (Kepone); Introduction; Neurology and Pathology of Tremor; Study of Chlordecone-Induced Tremor; Summary; Chapter 9 Analysis of Drug Interactions in Behavioral Pharmacology; Introduction; The Problem; Analysis of the Effects of Drug Combinations on Behavior; Summary; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dews, P. B
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Barrett, J. E
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| ISBN |
9781317768081 |
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1317768086 |
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