Findings from California State University, Department of Psychology provide new insights into drug research

New investigation results, 'One-trial cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization in preweanling rats: role of contextual stimuli,' are detailed in a study published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. According to a study from the United States, "Using a one-trial procedure, preweanling rats exhibit robust sensitization regardless of whether drug pretreatment and testing occur in the same or different environments. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether one-trial context-specific and context-independent sensitization of preweanling rats could be dissociated by varying the pretreatment dose of cocaine, by varying the pretreatment drug, or by minimizing...

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