The effect of a dopamine antagonist and an agonist on rats’ perception of reward quantity : an examination of the anhedonia hypothesis

A procedure was developed to determine the effect of a dopamine (DA) antagonist (haloperidol) and a DA agonist (d-amphetamine) on rats' perceptions of the hedonic value of food. Eighteen rats were trained to discriminate between two quantities of sweet food pellets (1 and 4), in a forced-choice...

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Main Author: Martin-Iverson, Mathew Thomas
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25938