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Journal article

Morphine-induced taste avoidance is attenuated with multiple conditioning trials

Abstract

Morphine has paradoxical effects in learning experiments. The drug can serve as a reinforcer in several situations; yet rats avoid tastes paired with morphine, much as they avoid tastes paired with an emetic drug such as lithium chloride (LiCl). The results of the present experiment indicate that, in contrast with LiCl-induced taste avoidance, the strength of morphine-induced avoidance is nonmonotonically related to the duration of training. …

Authors

Siegel S; Parker LA; Moroz I

Journal

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 299–303

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

February 1995

DOI

10.1016/0091-3057(94)00318-d

ISSN

0091-3057