Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) is a new psychoactive substance (NPS) considered to
be a cocaine-like psychostimulant. The substitution of an established illicit drug as cocaine …

Synthetic cathinones gained initial popularity on the illicit drug market as a result of attempts
to evade legal restrictions on other commonly abused psychostimulants. A body of …

Background and Purpose 3, 4‐Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) is a synthetic
cathinone with powerful psychostimulant effects. It selectively inhibits the dopamine …

Background: The substantial increase in use of 3, 4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a
popular recreational synthetic cathinone, has raised legitimate questions about its …

During the last decade, there has been a worldwide increase in popularity and abuse of
synthetic cathinones. Common ingredients of the so‐called bath salts include mephedrone …

Reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in animals is relevant to drug relapse in humans. In
the present study, we employed the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm to …

methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) is a synthetic cathinone with cocaine-like properties.
In a previous work, we exposed adolescent mice to MDPV, finding sensitization to cocaine …

Dextromethorphan (DM) at supra-antitussive doses might produce psychotomimetic effects
in humans. In order to understand the underlying mechanisms responsible for the behavior …

Several phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDEis) improve cognition, suggesting that an
increase in brain cAMP and cGMP facilitates learning and memory. Since extinction of drug …

Conditioned place preference (CPP), a commonly used model for studying the role of
contextual cues in drug reward and drug seeking, was employed to explore possible …