Do antidepressants affect motivation in conditioned place preference?

Subhan, F., Deslandes, P. N., Pache, D. M. and Sewell, Robert David Edmund 2000. Do antidepressants affect motivation in conditioned place preference? European Journal of Pharmacology 408 (3) , pp. 257-263. 10.1016/S0014-2999(00)00771-8

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Abstract

The positive motivational effects of a range of antidepressants/neurotransmitter reuptake inhibitor compounds were studied using conditioned place preference. These agents included amitriptyline (2.5–10 mg/kg), venlafaxine (5 and 10 mg/kg), sibutramine (5 and 10 mg/kg), fluoxetine (2.5–10 mg/kg), paroxetine (5–15 mg/kg) and sertraline (2.5–10 mg/kg). Male Wistar rats were place conditioned in a three-compartment box to vehicle or drug alternately for 8 days using a 30-min pretreatment time. Control animals received vehicle only. Cocaine (5 mg/kg) was used as a positive control for the procedure. Significant place preference (P<0.05) was observed with paroxetine (15 mg/kg), fluoxetine (5 and 10 mg/kg), sertraline (2.5–10 mg/kg) and cocaine. Venlafaxine and sibutramine, serotonin/noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors, produced no place conditioning, while the highest dose of the tricyclic antidepressant, amitriptyline (10 mg/kg), produced signs of place aversion. The role of serotonin in reward pathways and differences in serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine reuptake-inhibiting properties of these compounds may explain why only the serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitors produced place preference in this study.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Pharmacy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0014-2999
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 07:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/70496

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