Behavioral Pharmacology
The Current Status
Published on 8. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
VII, 301 pages
978-1-4684-2636-6 (ISBN)
Description
The future of behavioral pharmacology.- Session I Environmental Influences Affecting the Voluntary Intake of Drugs.- Environmental influences affecting the voluntary intake of drugs: an overview.- An experimental analysis of behavioral factors in drug dependence.- Second-order schedules of drug injection.- Behavioral functions of narcotic antagonists: response-drug contingencies.- Experimental models for the modification of human drug self-administration: Methodological developments in the study of ethanol self-administration by alcoholics.- Session II Interactions of Behavioral and Neurochemical Processes.- On neurochemistry and behavior.- Behavioral correlates of serotonin depletion.- Neurochemical changes associated with schedule-controlled behavior.- Serotonergic and cholinergic mechanisms during disruption of approach and avoidance behavior.- Catecholamines and drug-behavior interactions.- Session III Behavioral Toxicology.- Behavioral toxicology: A developing discipline.- Assessing the impact of low level chemicals on development: behavioral and latent effects.- Amphetamine toxicity: behavioral and neuropathological indexes.- Psychophysical evaluation of toxic effects on sensory systems.- Behavioral effects of mercury and methylmercury.- Session IV Contingencies of Reinforcement as Determinants of Drug Response.- Schedule-controlled behaviors as determinants of drug response.- Determinants of drug effects on punished responding.- The role of discriminative stimuli in modulating drug action.- Reinforcement schedules and extrapolations to humans from animals in behavioral pharmacology.- Discrete trial analysis of drug action.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VII, 301 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-2636-6 (9781468426366)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-2634-2
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05/1976
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
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Content
The future of behavioral pharmacology.- Session I Environmental Influences Affecting the Voluntary Intake of Drugs.- Environmental influences affecting the voluntary intake of drugs: an overview.- An experimental analysis of behavioral factors in drug dependence.- Second-order schedules of drug injection.- Behavioral functions of narcotic antagonists: response-drug contingencies.- Experimental models for the modification of human drug self-administration: Methodological developments in the study of ethanol self-administration by alcoholics.- Session II Interactions of Behavioral and Neurochemical Processes.- On neurochemistry and behavior.- Behavioral correlates of serotonin depletion.- Neurochemical changes associated with schedule-controlled behavior.- Serotonergic and cholinergic mechanisms during disruption of approach and avoidance behavior.- Catecholamines and drug-behavior interactions.- Session III Behavioral Toxicology.- Behavioral toxicology: A developing discipline.- Assessing the impact of low level chemicals on development: behavioral and latent effects.- Amphetamine toxicity: behavioral and neuropathological indexes.- Psychophysical evaluation of toxic effects on sensory systems.- Behavioral effects of mercury and methylmercury.- Session IV Contingencies of Reinforcement as Determinants of Drug Response.- Schedule-controlled behaviors as determinants of drug response.- Determinants of drug effects on punished responding.- The role of discriminative stimuli in modulating drug action.- Reinforcement schedules and extrapolations to humans from animals in behavioral pharmacology.- Discrete trial analysis of drug action.