The Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Discrimination

The Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Discrimination, 1st Edition, is a scholarly book that reviews the discriminative stimulus properties associated with major classes of psychoactive drugs. The volume focuses on how the experimental drug discrimination paradigm enhances scientific understanding of these compounds.

The text evaluates research involving both drugs of abuse and therapeutic agents used to treat mental illnesses. By surveying these pharmacological groups, the work highlights how discrimination studies help clarify the mechanisms responsible for drug effects.

A central feature of the volume is its emphasis on animal-to-human translation, examining how findings derived from animal discrimination models translate to human pharmacological responses.