01:830:364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cue Reactivity, Model Organism, Psychopathology
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You feel better when around your drinking buddies. you feel better when in a familiar bar. Conditioned urges/cravings - stimuli predictive of da activation induce conditioned urges to get high and cravings for the drug"s euphoric effects. The people, places, and things that are associated with drug use come to induce urges/cravings, even before the drug has been taken. The desire to get high, to feel the drug"s effects is elevated when around your drinking buddies, when in a familiar bar setting, when holding a favorite drink. Conditioned psychomotor activation - stimuli predictive of da activation induce conditioned psychomotor activation. You"re conditioned to be vigilant for locating reward when around your drinking buddies, Drug cues become more salient, that is, more noticed, more attention-demanding, more prominent. Drug cues stand out and become less likely to be overlooked or ignored. The highly salient drug cues quickly become focal targets of psychomotor activation. Entrains the brain to respond to drug cues.