Institution: | * Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA † Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70146, USA a Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70146, USA |
Abstract: | This paper is the fifteenth installment of our annual review of research concerning the opiate system. It includes papers published during 1992 involving the behavioral, nonanalgesic, effects of the endogenous opiate peptides. The specific topics this year include stress; tolerance and dependence; eating; drinking; gastrointestinal and renal function; mental illness and mood; learning, memory, and reward; cardiovascular responses; respiration and thermoregulation; seizures and other neurological disorders; electrical-related activity; general activity and locomotion; sex, pregnancy, and development; immunological responses; and other behaviors. |