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Donald A. Overton

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Historical context of state dependent learning and discriminative drug effects

Behavioural Pharmacology September 1, 1991 Donald A. Overton 89 citations

Drug-induced state dependent learning (SDL), as well as similar effects on memory retrieval exercised by physiological states, have been known since 1830. Before 1950, understanding of this area derived primarily from clinical descriptions of somnambulism, dream recall, fugue states, and cases of multiple personality. After 1950, experimental demonstrations of the properties of SDL and drug...