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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Sep 10;105(2):417–427. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.041

Table 2. Summary of experimental findings.

Drug Treatment and timing1 Relative rate of Extinction2 [Sub-groups combined for acute DCS treatments] Behavioral Treatments and Tests1
CS-Only Extinction (CSO) Explicitly Unpaired Extinction (EU)
Relative rate of Extinction2 SR test3 Relative rate of Extinction2 SR Test3
Controls +4 +5 SR7 +++5 No SR7
Chronic DCS +4 +5 SR7 +++5 SR7
Acute DCS (static: 2–5%) +++4 ++6 SR8 +++6 No SR8
Acute DCS (early dynamic: 8–16%) +6 SR8 +++6 No SR8
Acute DCS (late dynamic: 20–40%) +6 No SR8 +++6 SR8
1

See Table 1 for group nomenclature and procedures

2

Days to achieve asymptotic CTA extinction. Rates are relative to other groups in the same column. + = Slow rate of extinction; ++ = Medium rate of extinction; +++ = Fast rate of extinction.

3

Comparison of saccharin drunk at asymptotic CTA extinction vs. saccharin drunk at the spontaneous recovery (SR) test 30 days later. SR indicates a suppression of SAC drinking relative to the amount consumed at the end of CTA extinction.

4

See Figure 3

5

See Figure 2A

6

See Figure 4

7

See Figure 5

8

See Figure 6