Table 1.
Procedures and manipulations used to assess reward-related deficits
Behavioral Construct | Procedure | Manipulation | Measure | References |
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Anhedonia | Sucrose consumption | Acute PCP (up to 20 mg/kg) | Decreased sucrose intake | Baird et al., 2008 |
Chronic intermittent PCP (2.58 mg/kg) | No effect | J. Pratt, Personal Communication | ||
Sub-chronic PCP (2 – 5 mg/kg) tested after washout | No effect | Jenkins et al., 2010 | ||
Hedonic facial reactions to sucrose | Striatal dopamine D2 over expression | No effect | Ward et al., 2012 | |
ICSS | Cocaine withdrawal (self-administration procedure) | Elevated ICSS threshold | Markou and Koob, 1991 | |
Amphetamine withdrawal (up to 15 mg/kg/day experimenter-administered) | Elevated ICSS threshold | Paterson et al., 2000 | ||
PCP withdrawal (up to 20 mg/mg/day) | Elevated ICSS threshold | Spielewoy and Markou, 2003 | ||
Avolition | Fixed ratio | Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion | No effect at low FR, impaired high FR performance | Aberman and Salamone, 1999 |
Progressive ratio | Striatal dopamine D2 over expression | Lowered breakpoint | Drew et al., 2007; Simpson et al., 2011 | |
Amphetamine withdrawal (escalating dosing regimen 1 – 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg/day for 7 days) | Lowered breakpoint for sucrose (solution and pellet) | Barr and Philips, 1999; Der-Avakian and Markou, 2010 | ||
Dopamine D1 receptor KO | Impaired learning operant procedure | Young and Geyer, 2010 | ||
Operant effort-related choice | Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion | Reduced willingness to work for preferred reward | Salamone et al., 1991 | |
Systemic haloperidol injection (0.1 mg/kg) | Reduced willingness to work for preferred reward | Salamone et al., 1991 | ||
Striatal dopamine D2 over expression | Reduced willingness to work for preferred reward | Ward et al., 2012 | ||
T-maze effort-related choice | Systemic haloperidol injection (0.1 mg/kg) | Biased towards LR arm | Salamone et al., 1994 | |
Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion | Biased towards LR arm | Salamone et al., 1994 | ||
Chronic intermittent PCP administration (2.58 mg/kg) | Biased towards LR arm | J. Pratt, Personal Communication | ||
Anticipatory Deficits | Anticipatory locomotion | Withdrawal from escalating amphetamine schedule (1 – 12 mg/kg) | Reduced anticipatory side changes, increased post-ejaculatory intervals, no effect on copulatory behavior | Barr et al., 1999 |
Successive negative contrast | Withdrawal from escalating amphetamine schedule (1 – 10 mg/kg) | Exaggerated negative contrast effect | Barr and Philips, 2002 | |
Successive positive contrast | Withdrawal from escalating amphetamine schedule (1 – 10 mg/kg) | Failure to develop successive positive contrast | Vacca and Philips, 2005 |