Taste aversion conditioning as a drug discrimination model

Abstract

Taste aversión learning is reviewed as a new model in drug discrimination situations, a review of traditional procedures of drug discrimination based in operant conditioning and its limits is refered.The role of conditioned gustative aversions is assessed in a behavioral pharmacology background, as a useful conditioning model for the study of aversive properties of drugs. A model of drug discrimination based on a lithium chloride flavour aversión was described and examined. The control exerted by the drug state over fluid consumtion occurs much more quickly than responses such as bar pressing, and generalization across dosages of the training drug and other drugs can occur with this procedure, this points are discussed from theoretical and practical perspectives,