Chapter title |
The Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Hallucinogenic and Dissociative Anesthetic Drugs
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Chapter number | 29 |
Book title |
The Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Discrimination
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Published in |
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, September 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/7854_2016_29 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-998559-6, 978-3-31-998561-9
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Authors |
Mori, Tomohisa, Suzuki, Tsutomu, Tomohisa Mori, Tsutomu Suzuki |
Abstract |
The subjective effects of drugs are related to the kinds of feelings they produce, such as euphoria or dysphoria. One of the methods that can be used to study these effects is the drug discrimination procedure. Many researchers have been trying to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie the discriminative stimulus properties of abused drugs (e.g., alcohol, psychostimulants, and opioids). Over the past two decades, patterns of drug abuse have changed, so that club/recreational drugs such as phencyclidine (PCP), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), ketamine, and cannabinoid, which induce perceptual distortions, like hallucinations, are now more commonly abused, especially in younger generations. In particular, the abuse of designer drugs, which aim to mimic the subjective effects of psychostimulants (e.g., MDMA or amphetamines), has been problematic. However, the mechanisms of the discriminative stimulus effects of hallucinogenic and dissociative anesthetic drugs are not yet fully clear. This chapter focuses on recent findings regarding hallucinogenic and dissociative anesthetic drug-induced discriminative stimulus properties in animals. |
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