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Acute and chronic effects by stimulants on behavior and striatal neurotransmission in the rat
(2017-08-18)
Nicotine and amphetamines are the most widely abused stimulants. The main aim of the studies in this thesis was to investigate how these two drugs of abuse affect distinct regions of the rat brain involved in development ...
Conditional and non-conditional reward-related responses to alcohol - nicotinic mechanisms
(2006-11-14)
The mesolimbic dopamine system is believed to mediate the positive reinforcing and rewarding effects of addictive drugs by increasing dopamine levels in its terminal area, the nucleus accumbens (nAc). Nicotinic acetylcholine ...