Contemporary Research in Behavioral Pharmacology

Buch | Softcover

506 Seiten

2011
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4613-3969-4 (ISBN)

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The effects of drugs on behavior are of inherent interest and psycho- pharmacology has provided a focus for research activity for many years. Until recently, however, it could be claimed that the contribution of pharmacology was more obvious than that of psychology in the de- velopment of what should surely prove to be a matter for interdis- ciplinary endeavor. Pharmacological analyses of drug action have frequently been expressed in terms of dose-response functions, for ex- ample, with the dependent variable taking the form of patterns of be- havior whose controlling influences were but poorly understood. The introduction of operant conditioning techniques has transformed psy- chopharmacology in this respect. Operant analyses have traditionally emphasized the environmental determinants of behavior and have ex- plored the behavioral outcomes of many different experimental ar- rangements. These different behavioral repertoires have quickly proved to be of great importance in influencing the behavioral effects of drugs, and so psychologists have begun to playa role which better balances that of the pharmacologist in experimental psychophar- macology.
To reflect the development of these interdisciplinary studies, several excellent books have been published in recent years. These 1 have included introductory texts, collections of important experi- mental reports which had appeared in learnedjournals,2 and authorita- 3 tive handbooks which survey the current scene.

1 • Schedule-Controlled Behavior and the Effects of Drugs.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Schedule-Controlled Behavior.- 3. Effects of Drugs on Schedule-Controlled Behavior.- 4. Summary and Conclusions.- 5. References.- 2 • The Effects of Drugs on Behavior Controlled by Aversive Stimul.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Drug—Behavior Interactions in Conflict—Punishment Procedures.- 3. Continuous Avoidance Procedures.- 4. The Conditioned Emotional Response.- 5. General Summary and Conclusions.- 6. References.- 3 • Stimulus Control and Drug Effects.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Multiple Schedules and Related Procedures.- 3. Chained Schedules and Related Procedures.- 4. Summary and Conclusions.- 5. References.- 4 • Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Methods for the Demonstration of Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 3. Interpretations of Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 4. Epilogue.- 5. References.- 5 • The Effects of Drugs on Adjunctive Behavior.- 1. Operant and Adjunctive Behavior.- 2. Drugs and Adjunctive Behavior.- 3. Conclusions.- 4. References.- 6 • Schedule-Induced Self-Administration of Drugs.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Schedule-Induced Ethanol Consumption.- 3. Determinants of Schedule-Induced Ethanol Polydipsia.- 4. Schedule-Induced Consumption of Drugs Other Than Ethanol.- 5. An Animal Model of Human Alcoholism.- 6. Summary.- 7. References.- 7 • Drugs as Reinforcers.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Establishment of Drugs as Reinforcers.- 3. Type of Drug.- 4. Magnitude of Reinforcement.- 5. Satiation and Deprivation.- 6. Conditioned Drug Effects.- 7. Drugs as Negative Reinforcers.- 8. Punishment.- 9. An Application of Drug Self-Administration Techniques: The Preclinical Assessment of the Abuse Liability of New Compounds.- 10. Human Self-Administration Studies.- 11. Summary.-12. References.- 8 • Behavioral Tolerance.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Behavioral Tolerance in Perspective.- 3. Pharmacological and Organismic Factors.- 4. Environmental Factors: The Reinforcement Density Hypothesis.- 5. Tolerance to Stimulus Properties of Drugs.- 6. Conclusions.- 7. References.- 9 • Behavioral Toxicology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Distinguishing Features of Behavioral Toxicology.- 3. Behavioral Toxicology in the Soviet Union.- 4. Substances of Current Interest.- 5. Factors That Modulate the Behavioral Effects of Toxins.- 6. Future Developments.- 7. Summary.- 8. References.- Author Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.10.2011
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 506 p. 15 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
ISBN-10	1-4613-3969-3 / 1461339693
ISBN-13	978-1-4613-3969-4 / 9781461339694
Zustand	Neuware