Early preclinical studies of discriminable sedative and hallucinogenic drug effects.
Psychopharmacology April 2009 Herbert Barry, James B Appel
One important technique in behavioral pharmacology is to train laboratory animals to discriminate between a psychoactive drug effect and a nondrug condition. Tests with different drugs have identified several categories of drugs that have different discriminable effects. The two authors describe and discuss the early research on discriminable effects of sedative and hallucinogenic drugs and...