Conclusions and summary
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Various measurements have been made of the change in food rewarded behaviour due to drugs.
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Some sedatives enhance food rewarded behaviour in solitary rats. The Skinner box is a sensitive method of demonstrating this.
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The evidence suggests that these sedatives act by controlling fear.
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It is not possible using the Skinner box to say whether neuroleptics control fear because they have a basic anorexiant effect in laboratory animals.
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Bainbridge, J.G. The effect of psychotropic drugs on food reinforced behaviour and on food consumption. Psychopharmacologia 12, 204–213 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403774
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