Eliot L. Gardner, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Basic Psychiatry
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
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Bronx, NY 10461-1602
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gardner@aecom.yu.edu
Do those changes in the neurofilamentary transport system
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Do those changes in the neurofilamentary transport system for tyrosine hydroxylase and the consequent hypodopaminergic dysfunctionality in these reward and reinforcement-related synapses in the nucleus accumbens, persist? (00:00:26.0)
In which areas of the brain does electrostimulation trigger relapse to cocaine self-administration behavior in rats? (00:01:18.0)
Clarify the current level of knowledge of the interaction between endogenous opioid peptidergic systems and that meso-accumbens dopamine system that seems so important in mediating reward- and reinforcement-related phenomena. (00:02:36.0)
Is there any particular behavior demonstrated by the Lewis strain animals (born with a genetic proclivity to drug-seeking and taking behavior) evident basally, before they are exposed to drugs, that would allow one to distinguish them? (00:03:53.0)
If one were to take ordinary animals without a genetic proclivity to drug-taking and expose them to early stress, would it turn them into drug seeking & drug-taking animals? (00:05:30.0)
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