In this free webinar, learn about the limitations of traditional behavioral assays in modeling psychiatric disorders. Attendees will gain insight into the application of operant paradigms to dissect ...

To evaluate the influence of an initial heroin experience under a modified two-chained training schedule on drug-seeking behavior after a long abstinence period. In the present study, we aimed to ...

Operant-conditioning techniques were employed to produce organized behavior during sleep as defined by the electroencephalographic record. Patterned responding was found in so-called "light" and ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Scientists at Scripps Research identified an unusually active region of the brain linked to alcohol withdrawal symptoms in ...

I have written previously about the fact that in today’s increasingly digital world, not every person who is compulsive with pornography is a traditional (trauma-driven) compulsive person. (See my ...

School of Education and Health Sciences: Counselor Education and Human Services Liddon, C. J., Kelley, M., Rey, C., Abel, A., & Ribiero, A. (2018). A translational ...

Six rats, working in a 2°C ambient temperature, were trained to depress a lever to receive a brief period of heat. Four rats were then moved into the 2°C environment to live, while the others ...