Neuroleptics block high- but not low-dose heroin place preferences: further evidence for a two-system model of motivation.

The researchers studied whether 2 separate motivational systems in the brain underlie the rewarding effects of morphine. The brainstem tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus (TPP) is involved in mediating the motivational effects of opiates in nondeprived (drug-naive) rats, whereas dopamine transmission is necessary in mediating the motivational effects of opiates in deprived rats (opiate withdrawal). The results show that heroin's motivational properties obey the same boundary between a nondeprived and a deprived motivational state. Bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the TPP blocked the acquisition of a place preference for an environment paired with 0.05 mg/kg heroin (a dose that induces no withdrawal aversion) but had no effect on place preference for an environment paired with 0.5 mg/kg heroin (a dose that does induce withdrawal aversion). Dopamine antagonist pretreatment produced the opposite pattern of results.

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