University of California, Department of Psychology publishes research in cardiology

Investigators publish new data in the report "Runway self-administration of intracerebroventricular cocaine: evidence of mixed positive and negative drug actions." According to a study from the United States, "In previous work from our laboratory, animals running for intravenous cocaine developed a unique approach-avoidance 'retreat behavior' that was hypothesized to result from cocaine's well documented reinforcing (positive) and anxiogenic (negative) properties. To assess the role of central mechanisms in producing cocaine's positive and negative effects, we assessed whether or not animals running a straight alley for intracerebroventricular applications of cocaine would produce a...

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