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The effect of psychotropic drugs on food reinforced behaviour and on food consumption

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    Various measurements have been made of the change in food rewarded behaviour due to drugs.

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    Some sedatives enhance food rewarded behaviour in solitary rats. The Skinner box is a sensitive method of demonstrating this.

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    The evidence suggests that these sedatives act by controlling fear.

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    It is not possible using the Skinner box to say whether neuroleptics control fear because they have a basic anorexiant effect in laboratory animals.

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Bainbridge, J.G. The effect of psychotropic drugs on food reinforced behaviour and on food consumption. Psychopharmacologia 12, 204–213 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403774

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