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Methods in behavioral pharmacology /
Methods in Behavioral Pharmacology is unique in offering a complete description and critical evaluation of most, if not all, methods available to study the effects of drugs on behavior. It stands apart in that it is not limited to the analysis of a particular class of pharmacological agents in a lim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
1993.
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| Colección: | Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Previously published in Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences; Copyright page; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: The use of animal models in behavioral pharmacology; Publisher Summary; 1 Selection of an Animal Model; 2 Conducting Controlled Animal Experiments; 3 Selected Animal Research Procedures; 4 Species considerations; 5 Obtaining approval for animal studies; Chapter 2: Psychotropic screening procedures; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 General behavioral screening tests; 3 Tests for antidepressants
- 4 Tests for anxiolytics5 Tests for neuroleptics; 6 Tests for cognition enhancers; 7 Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Chapter 3: Classical conditioning; Publisher Summary; 1 Procedural aspects; 2 Drug effects and classical conditioning; 3 Classical conditioning preparations; 4 Classical-operant interactions; 5 Comparison of drug effects on classical and operant conditioning; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Chapter 4: Schedule-controlled behavior: positive reinforcement; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Why study schedule-controlled behavior in behavioral pharmacology
- 3 Dose effect functions4 Schedules of reinforcement; 5 Drug effects on behavior maintained by simple and combined schedules of positive reinforcement; 6 Rate-dependency; 7 Behavioral context, behavioral and pharmacological history; 8 Conclusions; Acknowledgement; Chapter 5: Schedule-controlled behavior: negative reinforcement; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Signalled avoidance-escape procedures; 3 Escape-shock titration; 4 Continuous avoidance; 5 Stimulus-shock termination procedures; 6 Shock-maintained behavior; 7 Conclusion; Acknowledgements
- Chapter 6: Drugs and stimulus control: generalization, discrimination and threshold proceduresPublisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Behavioral paradigms; 3 Experimental variables influencing drug effects on stimulus control; 4 Data analysis: signal detection and response repetition; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 7: Complex and delayed discriminations: automated repeated measures techniques; Publisher Summary; 1 Working memory test paradigms; Repeated acquisition tasks; 3 Conclusions; Chapter 8: Mazes: their use in delayed conditional discriminations and place discriminations; Publisher Summary
- 1 Introduction2 Delayed conditional discrimination in a radial arm maze; 3 Place discrimination in a water tank; 4 Advantages and disadvantages; 5 General procedures; 6 Delayed conditional discrimination in an alley maze; 7 Place discrimination in a water tank; Acknowledgements; Chapter 9: Drug discrimination; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Historical considerations; 3 Functional models for drug discrimination; 4 The dependent variables in drug discrimination; 5 Influence of pharmacological factors; 6 Influence of behavioural factors; 7 Subject (organism) factors