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Novel Apparatus and Method for Drug Reinforcement
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Operant drug self-administration and conditioned place preference (CPP) procedures are expansively used in research to model various components of drug reinforcement, consumption, and addiction in humans. In this report, we combined traditional CPP and self-administration methods as a novel approach to studying drug reinforcement and addiction in rats.
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Feduccia, A. A., Duvauchelle, C. L. Novel Apparatus and Method for Drug Reinforcement. J. Vis. Exp. (42), e1998, doi:10.3791/1998 (2010).
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