Reinforcement enhancing effect of nicotine and its attenuation by nicotinic antagonists in rats
- 8 July 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 194 (4), 463-473
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-007-0863-3
Abstract
Recent studies have demonstrated that nicotine can enhance operant responding for other nonpharmacological reinforcing stimuli. However, the nature of the reinforcement-enhancing effect of nicotine remains largely unknown.This publication has 70 references indexed in Scilit:
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