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  • Title: Some effects of pimozide on nondeprived rats' lever pressing maintained by a sucrose reward in an anhedonia paradigm.
    Author: Gramling SE, Fowler SC, Tizzano JP.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1987 May; 27(1):67-72. PubMed ID: 3615548.
    Abstract:
    The present work examined the generalizability of the anhedonia phenomenon (extinction-like responding with repeated neuroleptic treatment) by examining the effects of pimozide (PIM) on nondeprived rats lever pressing for a sucrose solution reward (32%) in an eight day dosing regime. The procedures used replicated the essential features of a previous study (Gramling et al. [10]) wherein the effects of PIM on rats licking directly a sucrose solution were assessed. Thirty nondeprived rats were trained to lever press on a CRF schedule for a 32% sucrose solution reward and then assigned to one of five treatment groups (N = 6). The treatment conditions included a no-reward group (EXT; vehicle injections), two pimozide (PIM) with reward conditions (either PIM 0.25 mg/kg + RWD or PIM 0.5 mg/kg + RWD), and a vehicle control group (RWD; vehicle injections). These four groups each received their respective injections and operant exposure for eight consecutive days. The fifth group was a home cage (HC) control condition wherein the rats were injected with 0.5 mg/kg PIM each test day but did not receive operant exposure until the fourth test day. The PIM treated rats exhibited a significant curvilinear pattern of responding on the rate measure across eight days of testing, whereas rats in the no-reward condition exhibited a significant downward linear trend across eight days of testing. Within-session analysis revealed that rats in the EXT group responded at significantly higher rates during the first five minutes of testing on the first test day compared to rats in the PIM 0.5 + RWD condition.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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