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Katja Sturm

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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ‘Ecstasy‘) Serves as a Robust Positive Reinforcer in a Rat Runway Procedure

Pharmacology 2003 Gudrun Wakonigg, Katja Sturm, Alois Saria et al.

Although ‘ecstasy’ (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA) is, after marijuana, the second most prevalent illegal drug of abuse in European adolescents, animal experimental evidence of MDMA’s reinforcing effect has remained scarce, particularly in the rodent model, raising questions about the robustness of MDMA’s reinforcing effect under controlled laboratory conditions. In the present rat...