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The Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Discrimination

  • Provides a description of current research on the discriminative stimulus properties of major psychoactive drug classes
  • Provides a description of the underlying neuropharmacological mechanisms responsible for the subjective effects of psychoactive drugs
  • Enhances the readers’ understanding of the subjective effects of psychoactive drugs and how these findings translate from animals to humans

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences (CTBN, volume 39)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Drug Discrimination: Historical Origins, Important Concepts, and Principles

    • Joseph H. Porter, Adam J. Prus, Donald A. Overton
    Pages 3-26
  3. Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Psychostimulants

    • Michael D. Berquist, William E. Fantegrossi
    Pages 29-49
  4. Cross-Species Translational Findings in the Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Ethanol

    • Daicia C. Allen, Matthew M. Ford, Kathleen A. Grant
    Pages 95-111
  5. Translational Value of Drug Discrimination with Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs

    • Joseph H. Porter, Kevin A. Webster, Adam J. Prus
    Pages 193-212
  6. Pharmacokinetic–Pharmacodynamic (PKPD) Analysis with Drug Discrimination

    • S. Stevens Negus, Matthew L. Banks
    Pages 245-259
  7. Human Drug Discrimination: Elucidating the Neuropharmacology of Commonly Abused Illicit Drugs

    • B. Levi Bolin, Joseph L. Alcorn, Anna R. Reynolds, Joshua A. Lile, William W. Stoops, Craig R. Rush
    Pages 261-295
  8. Conditioned Taste Avoidance Drug Discrimination Procedure: Assessments and Applications

    • Anthony L. Riley, Matthew M. Clasen, Mary A. Friar
    Pages 297-317

About this book

The goal for this volume is to provide an up-to-date review of the discriminative stimulus properties of major psychoactive drug classes with an emphasis on how this paradigm enhances our understanding of these drugs and how these findings translate from animals to humans. The drug discrimination paradigm applies to both drugs of abuse and drugs for treating mental illnesses, and research from these studies has provided immense translational value for learning about the mechanisms responsible for drug effects in humans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    Joseph H. Porter

  • Department of Psychological Science, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA

    Adam J. Prus

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Discrimination

  • Editors: Joseph H. Porter, Adam J. Prus

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98561-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98559-6Published: 11 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07507-1Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98561-9Published: 30 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1866-3370

  • Series E-ISSN: 1866-3389

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 328

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Psychopharmacology, Behavioral Sciences

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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