The Neuropharmacological basis of reward /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. |
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| Description: | x, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in experimental psychopharmacology Oxford science publications |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1022021 |
| Summary: | This volume reviews recent major advances in reinforcement and behaviour. The contributors, all prominent physiological psychologists and behavioural pharmacologists, have extensively analysed current research on drugs, brain neurotransmitters, and reinforcement in animals. The book documents convergent evidence that implicates the nucleus accumbens and its dopaminergic afferents in reward. Controversial themes include the identity of the neurons mediating intracranial self-stimulation, and whether or not non-dopaminergic neurons can independently mediate reinforcement. Exciting new technical advances, such as conditioned place preferences, intracranial microinjection, and self-administration of drugs, as well as advanced new techniques for measuring the specificity of drug effects on reinforcement, are thoroughly explained and future research directions outlined. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198521766 : £40.00 (U.K. : est.) ($75.00 U.S.) |
