… Then we outline the new theory and review the relevant evidence for its three … addictive
drugs have psychomotor stimulant actions, (b) that the stimulant actions of these different drugs …

… addiction behavior theory over the past two decades, being cited over 1,400 times. The
present assessment places the theoretical … the psychomotor stimulant effects of addictive drugs …

… This review highlights associative influences on psychomotor stimulant addiction, building
on the view that plasticity in neural systems converging on the nucleus accumbens (Nac) and …

… psychomotor stimulants or opiates sensitizes animals to the locomotor-activating effects of
these drugs. … important implications for the understanding of addiction, mental illness, and the …

… of the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction in 1987 and the finding that addictive drugs
… theories that consider addiction to opiates and addiction to psychostimulants as essentially …

… Animal models used to study addiction are based on the psychomotor stimulant theory of
addiction. The basics of this theory are that the reinforcing effects and the addition liabilities of …

… Psychomotor stimulant drugs are readily selfadministered by laboratory animals. Although
… for many psychomotor stimulants 46'51, much of the work concerning the nature of stimulant …

… addiction-related brain regions and discuss studies showing effects of DA agonists or
psychomotor stimulants … cellular mechanisms by which psychomotor stimulants may influence LTP …

… Contemporary studies with psychomotor stimulants have focused on conditioning the … drugs
to elicit locomotor effects or to potentiate the motoric actions of the psychomotor stimulants. …

… Conditioning to the positive affective states induced by drugs has been demonstrated in
paradigms in which stimuli associated with drugs of abuse–including psychomotor stimulants, …