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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
The acute effects of diazepam (Valium) were assessed using a battery of complex food-reinforced operant tasks that included responding in delayed matching to sample (DMTS, n = 5), conditioned position response (CPR, n = 7) progressive ratio (PR, n = 8), temporal response differentiation (TRD, n = 4), and incremental repeated acquisition (IRA, n = 9) tests. Diazepam (0.25-4.0 mg/kg IV) produced significant dose-dependent decreases in the number of reinforcers obtained in the TRD and IRA tasks only. TRD accuracy was significantly decreased at doses of 0.25, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 mg/kg when compared to vehicle injections. Significant decreases in IRA accuracy generally did not occur at doses below 1.0 mg/kg. DMTS accuracy was decreased at 0.5 mg/kg for some time delays but showed no clear dose-delay interaction. Performance in the CPR and PR tests showed no significant effects of diazepam exposure over the dose range tested. These results indicate that diazepam selectively disrupts performance of operant tasks in monkeys designed to model human correlates of time perception, learning ability and visual attention/short-term memory while not affecting tasks designed to model motivation and position/color discrimination.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0091-3057
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
29-35
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiple behavioral effects of diazepam in rhesus monkeys.
pubmed:affiliation
Pharmacodynamics Branch, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR 72079.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't