Drugs of abuse and neurobiology

Abstract

Brain-stimulation reward - a method for assessing the neurochemical bases of drug-induced euphoria drug effects on sensorimotor integration in a model system second messengers in the transduction of multiple opioid receptor signals the neurobiology of fentanyl and its derivatives neurochemistry of nicotine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nicotine implications for tobacco addiction apprehension behavioural neuropharmacology of nicotine neuropharmacology of amphetamine changes in the activity of striatal neurons during behaviour neurochemistry of the benzodiazepines neurobiology of androgen abuse influences of the hormonal milieu on acute and chronic benzodiazepine responses in rats immunochemical studies of phencyclidine binding sites barbiturate dependence neurochemical and methodological considerations a new approach to developmental neurotoxicity desmethylimipramine as a prototype enkephalin-degrading enzymes as models to prepare antinociceptive or other pharmacological agents.