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Clinical Trial
. 1979;66(1):3-11.
doi: 10.1007/BF00431981.

The effects of chlorpromazine and pentobarbital on behavior maintained by electric shock or point loss avoidance in humans

M W Fischman, C R Schuster
Clinical Trial

The effects of chlorpromazine and pentobarbital on behavior maintained by electric shock or point loss avoidance in humans

M W Fischman et al. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1979.

Abstract

Human volunteer subjects were trained to press a lever to avoid or escape electric shock or loss of points which could be redeemed for money at the termination of the study. The effects of pentobarbital and chlorpromazine on avoidance and escape behavior were compared. Both aversive stimuli maintained behavior which was differentially sensitive to these two drugs. Chlorpromazine caused a decrease in avoidance responding at doses which had little effect on escape responding. Pentobarbital, in contrast, suppressed avoidance responding at doses which also had a suppressant effect on escape responding.

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