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Published in final edited form as: Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2013 Oct 14;24(5):744–758. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.10.001

Table 1.

Procedures and manipulations used to assess reward-related deficits

Behavioral Construct Procedure Manipulation Measure References
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