Open AccessDiscriminative learning occasioned by the administration of a dopamine agonist
Author(s) -
Sabine Keller,
Juan D. Delius
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
psychopharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.378
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1432-2072
pISSN - 0033-3158
DOI - 10.1007/s002130100847
Subject(s) - apomorphine , sensitization , dopamine agonist , psychology , agonist , stimulus control , conditioning , stimulus (psychology) , saline , dopamine , neuroscience , anesthesia , medicine , dopaminergic , cognitive psychology , receptor , nicotine , statistics , mathematics
The repeated administration of psychostimulants usually brings about a progressive increment of the behavioral responses that they induce. We examined to what extent this sensitization is due to an associative learning process.
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