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Conditioned flavor preferences
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Conditioned taste preferences refer to appetitive responses evoked by tastes associated with the effects of a drug manipulation. Taste preferences are best seen when a drug-paired taste is presented on a drinking test concurrently with a control taste not paired with the same drug manipulation; the conditioned taste preference is evidenced by a relative increase in the consumption of the paired taste. There are conditioned preferences for tastes paired with most self-administered drugs due to the conditioning that takes place during the training for self-administration. Taste preferences can also be produced in experimentally naive rats without extensive training by pairing tastes with an injection of low doses of opioid analgesics or with the offset of drugs having acute aversive effects. Conditioned taste preferences help understand the interplay between initially aversive effects of drugs and incentive effects that characterize...
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Mucha, R.F. (2014). Conditioned Taste Preferences. In: Stolerman, I., Price, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27772-6_406-2
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