Psychopharmacology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Motor Asymmetries and Drug Effects

   • Christopher J. Pycock, Ian C. Kilpatrick

   Pages 1-93

3. Exploration and Its Measurement

   • Ann E. Kelley, Martine Cador, Louis Stinus

   Pages 95-144

4. Techniques for Assessing the Effects of Drugs on Nociceptive Responses

   • Keith B. J. Franklin, Frances V. Abbott

   Pages 145-216

5. Methods for Determining the Specificity of Drug Effects on Feeding

   • Paul J. Fletcher

   Pages 217-262

6. Investigating the Effects of Drugs on Drinking Behavior

   • Mark D. Evered

   Pages 263-298

7. Operant Behavior and the Effects of Centrally Acting Drugs

   • David J. Sanger, Derek E. Blackman

   Pages 299-348

8. Drug Self-Administration

   • David C. S. Roberts, Nick Goeders

   Pages 349-398

9. Conditioned Drug Effects on Spatial Preference

   • Neal R. Swerdlow, David Gilbert, George F. Koob

   Pages 399-446

10. Drug Effects on Behaviors Maintained by Electrical Brain Stimulation

    • Jeffrey M. Liebman

    Pages 447-511

11. Discrimination Learning with Drug Stimuli

    • Torbjörn U. C. Järbe

    Pages 513-563

12. Behavioral Techniques for Assessing Drug Tolerance and Sensitization

    • Andrew J. Goudie

    Pages 565-622

13. Methods for Determining the Effects of Drugs on Learning

    • Richard J. Beninger

    Pages 623-685

14. Drug Effects on Social Behavior

    • Paul F. Brain, Kevin H. McAllister, Stephen Walmsley

    Pages 687-739

15. Assessment of Neurochemical Correlates of Operant Behavior

    • Steven I. Dworkin, James E. Smith

    Pages 741-785

16. Back Matter

    Pages 787-821

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The study of drug effects on behavior is truly a confluence of streams of neuroscience research. The material in this volume covers a broad range of methodology representative of practically the entire scope of psychopharmacology for conscious animals. The contributions in this book represent careful evaluations by experts who were invited to participate because of their excellent practical application of research design and methodology. In each case, a particularly useful and well-written contribution has been forthcoming, and should serve either as a valuable introduction to developing researchers or as a practical reference to those active in the field. The material is arranged in an intuitive hierarchy. This arrangement is based on what are ostensibly increasing levels of integrated activity of the nervous system and, therefore, increasing levels of behavioral integration. Nevertheless, as all of the areas covered are rather detailed in their levels of intrinsic complexity, this arrangement of chapters does not imply successively more intricate problems. The reader will find some overlap between chapters, but little interdependence, i.e., each may be read as a separate or as an integral part of the volume.

• Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

  Alan A. Boulton

• Neurochemical Research Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Glen B. Baker, Andrew J. Greenshaw

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