A main challenge in the therapy of drug dependent individuals is to help them reactivate
interest in non-drug-associated activities. We previously developed a rat experimental …

Positive social interaction could play an essential role in switching the preference of the
substance dependent individual away from drug related activities. We have previously …

We previously developed rat experimental models based on the conditioned place
preference (CPP) paradigm in which only four 15-min episodes of dyadic social interaction …

Background A main challenge in the therapy of drug dependent individuals is to help them
reactivate interest in non-drug-associated activities. Among these activities, social …

A recent thrust in drug abuse research is the influence of social interactions on drug effects.
Therefore, the present study examined conditioned place preference (CPP) as a model for …

To explore sex differences in reinstatement of conditioned place preference, we subjected
intact male and female Long Evans rats to an extended conditioned place preference (CPP) …

Rationale Drug addiction is a multifactorial disorder resulting from an interaction between
genetic and environmental factors, and negative and positive environmental conditions may …

Conditioned place preference and locomotor sensitization are rodent behavioral models
commonly used to investigate the actions of drugs of abuse. However, few studies have …

Rationale The place conditioning procedure is increasingly used to study relapse in drug
seeking in mice. However, the retention course of drug-induced place preference has not …

Busse and Riley [Biol. Psychiatry 26 (2002) 1373] have recently reported that alcohol dose
dependently attenuated cocaine-induced place preferences. Although the mechanism for …