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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Sep 17;195(4):469–478. doi: 10.1007/s00213-007-0923-8

Table 1.

Pearson correlations (r) between locomotion during inescapable novelty or following the first drug injection and measures of locomotion after injection (saline or drug).

0.5 mg/kg AMPH 1.0 mg/kg AMPH 0.5 mg/kg METH 1.0 mg/kg METH
S− S+ S− S+ S− S+ S− S+
Novelty
 Conditioning −0.275 −0.928** 0.363 0.323 0.192 −0.141 −0.112 0.026
 Acute drug 0.542 −0.316 0.677 0.766* −0.492 −0.077 −0.372 0.641
 Drug challenge −0.024 −0.489 0.717* 0.805* −0.282 −0.339 0.415 0.551
 Sensitization (diff.) −0.613 −0.268 −0.052 0.016 0.371 −0.232 0.576 0.144
 Sensitization (norm.) −0.735* −0.216 −0.319 −0.434 0.269 −0.227 0.276 0.003
Acute Drug
 Conditioning 0.496 0.447 −0.047 0.293 0.281 0.481 0.227 −0.095
 Drug challenge 0.447 0.125 0.683 0.823* 0.730* −0.421 0.071 0.554
 Sensitization (diff.) −0.804* −0.438 −0.518 −0.354 −0.564 −0.714* −0.704* −0.139
 Sensitization (norm.) −0.918* −0.589 −0.753* −0.831* −0.774* −0.778* −0.919* −0.405

Cumulative locomotion during the 30 min following the first exposure to the open-field arena (Day 1 of testing) was used to define each rat’s novelty response. Conditioning was defined as the difference between locomotion during the 30-min period after saline injections on the acute and challenge days (Days 1 and 10, respectively). Cumulative locomotion during the 60-min period after AMPH or METH injection was used for measures of drug-induced behavior (acute and drug challenge). For sensitization, two measures were used: the difference (diff.) in locomotion for the 60-min period after injection on challenge and acute treatment days, and a normalized (norm.) measure that controlled for individual differences in the acute response to AMPH or METH by dividing the difference score by the post-injection activity measured after the first injection.