Track: PHARMACOLOGY
Track: Behavioral Pharmacology
Track: Neuroscience
Holly Moore
National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Drug Abuse
Michelle Doyle
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Although standard intravenous drug self-administration procedures remain the gold-standard for assessing the abuse potential of psychoactive drugs, substance use disorders (SUDs) are complex, multifaceted, and not fully recapitulated by any single animal model. Recently, novel behavioral paradigms have been developed to model specific aspects of SUD to better understand the neurobiology of individual vulnerabilities to develop SUD-related behaviors, and to evaluate candidate medications for treating SUDs. After a brief introduction on the use of animal models of SUDs, three speakers will discuss their research evaluating SUD-related phenotypes in rats, the use of drug-food choice procedures, and a social-operant choice assay.
Speaker: Susan Ferguson – University of Washington
Speaker: Edward Townsend – Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker: Marco Venniro – University of Maryland