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A primer of behavioral pharmacology : concepts and principles in the behavioral analysis of drug action

Title
A primer of behavioral pharmacology : concepts and principles in the behavioral analysis of drug action / Peter L. Carlton.
Author
Carlton, Peter Lynn, 1931-
Publication
New York : W.H. Freeman, ©1983.

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Description
301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
A Series of books in psychology
Uniform Title
Series of books in psychology.
Subject
  • Psychopharmacology > Research
  • Behavioral assessment
  • Psychotropic drugs
  • Behavior > drug effects
  • Psychotropic Drugs
  • Psychotropic drugs
  • Behavioral assessment
  • Psychopharmacology > Research
  • Comportement > action des médicaments et substances chimiques
  • Psychoanaleptiques
  • Psychopharmakologie
  • Psicofarmacologia
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [283]-293.
Contents
pt. 1. The measurement of drug effect -- Basic behavioral procedures -- Basic pharmacologic procedures -- Rate-dependency -- pt. 2. Drugs as stimuli -- Reinforcement functions -- Aversive functions -- Cue functions -- pt. 3. The phenomenon of tolerance -- Basic factors in tolerance -- Environmental factors in tolerance -- pt. 4. Diversity and classification -- Behavioral classification of drugs -- Classification, analysis and behavioral models -- pt. 5. Models of clinical drug response -- The anxiolytics -- The neuroleptics -- Lithium and the antidepressants -- pt. 6. The analysis of models -- The anxiolytic response -- The neuroleptic response -- Physiologic mechanisms -- Physiologic mechanism, behavioral models and the limits of analysis.
ISBN
  • 0716714515
  • 9780716714514
  • 0716714507
  • 9780716714507
  • 0071671450 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
83009083
OCLC
  • ocm09532868
  • 9532868
  • SCSB-601355
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library