Preclinical Behavioral Approaches for Assessing the Reinforcing Properties of Drugs of Abuse

Statedependent or "dissociated" learning produced with pentobarbital.

1964 • 431 citations

Attenuation of heroin reward in rats by disruption of the mesolimbic dopamine system

1983 • 309 citations

Reinforcing properties of morphine and naloxone revealed by conditioned place preferences: a procedural examination

1984 • 307 citations

Response to novelty predicts the locomotor and nucleus accumbens dopamine response to cocaine

1991 • 292 citations

Self-administration of psychomotor stimulant drugs: The effects of unlimited access

1976 • 227 citations

Location preference and flavor aversion reinforced by amphetamine in rats

1977 • 206 citations

Naloxone inhibits mating and conditioned place preference for an estrous female in male rats soon after castration

1987 • 131 citations

Evidence for the rewarding effects of ethanol using the conditioned place preference method

1990 • 128 citations

Self administration of nicotine with and without a food delivery schedule

1977 • 127 citations

Motivational properties of ethanol in naive rats as studied by place conditioning

1983 • 126 citations

Caffeine-induced place and taste conditioning: Production of dose-dependent preference and aversion

1991 • 122 citations

Further studies on nicotine-induced conditioned place preference in the rat

1986 • 110 citations

Self-administration of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol by rats

1979 • 97 citations

Nicotine place preference using the biased method of conditioning

1994 • 94 citations

Comparison of behavior maintained by infusions of eight phenylethylamines in baboons

1976 • 87 citations

Place conditioning with morphine and phencyclidine: Dose dependent effects

1985 • 84 citations

Self -Administration of Psychomotor Stimulants Using Progressive Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement

2003 • 83 citations

NICOTINE SELF‐ADMINISTRATION IN MONKEYS*

1967 • 81 citations

Failure to establish a conditioned place preference with ethanol in rats

1985 • 81 citations

Restrained rats learn amphetamine-conditioned locomotion, but not place preference

1984 • 72 citations

Comparison of excited phases alter sedatives and tranquilizers

1960 • 69 citations

Neurotensin injected into the nucleus accumbens blocks the psychostimulant effects of cocaine but does not attenuate cocaine self-administration in the rat

1993 • 63 citations

Phencyclidine self-administration in the rhesus monkey

1973 • 57 citations

Nicotine self-administration in baboons

1983 • 45 citations

Motivated behaviors produced by increased arousal in the presence of goal objects

1971 • 41 citations

A Rodent Model for Nicotine Self-Administration

2003 • 41 citations

Spatial Avoidance in a Paradigm in Which Ionizing Irradiation Precedes Spatial Confinement

1966 • 19 citations