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Developmental Differences in Nicotine Place Conditioning
Author(s) -
TORRELLA TRACY A.,
BADANICH KIMBERLY A.,
PHILPOT REX M.,
KIRSTEIN CHERYL L.,
WECKER LYNN
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1308.052
Subject(s) - habituation , nicotine , conditioned place preference , conditioning , anxiolytic , psychology , preference , nicotine addiction , developmental psychology , medicine , addiction , anxiety , psychiatry , neuroscience , mathematics , economics , microeconomics , statistics
A bstract : To understand the motivations and implications of the prevalence of smoking, studies have compared the behavioral effects of nicotine, the psychoactive drug in tobacco, in adolescent and adult animals. The present study used a biased three‐chambered conditioned‐place preference procedure without prior habituation to examine the potential rewarding and anxiolytic effects of nicotine across adolescence and adulthood to assess the presence of age‐dependent differences in response to nicotine.