Society for the Stimulus Properties of Drugs Satellite

描述（由申请人提供）： 精神活性药物可以通过在药物依赖中作为奖励和提示刺激来影响行为。当药物作为奖励并激发新的行为时，吸毒行为就会发展。当药物作为线索（称为辨别性刺激）时，人们学会识别它们在体内的特征效应，例如情绪和情感的变化。这些线索可能会恢复吸毒行为，并肯定在药物成瘾的复发中发挥作用。在实验室中使用药物辨别方法，受试者接受专门培训以识别这些药物作用。然后，研究人员可以使用药物辨别方法和相关方法以精确、定量和可靠的方式测量药物效应。 SSPD的主要目标之一是获取、交换和分发有关药物刺激特性领域最新研究的信息。在本申请中，SSPD请求国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）的支持，以支持我们于2005年9月9日在西班牙巴塞罗那举行的欧洲行为药理学学会会议的卫星研讨会。我们的组织是唯一有资格在我们的卫星专题讨论会上解决药物滥用和成瘾的三个重要问题：1）歧视性刺激和条件药物效应在药物滥用的恢复和复发中的作用; 2）对药物滥用研究进展感兴趣的研究生和初级同事的培训和发展，特别是在刺激效应和药物线索方面;最后3）NIDA资助的高级研究人员与我们的欧洲同事之间就各种药物线索对药物成瘾的获得，维持和治疗的贡献进行公开对话和交流。 在为期一天的卫星会议上，将通过在我们的网站、EBPS网站、我们自己的电子通讯（2005年2月）以及一系列相关的邮件列表上宣布会议和演讲，向SSPD、EBPS或整个科学界的所有成员和感兴趣的科学家征求论文。最后，与往年（1978-1998年）一样，我们的国际卫星会议记录将提交审查出版。2005年EBPS会议的SSPD卫星承诺协调、交流和传播信息，以促进我们对药物滥用的了解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Psychoactive drugs can influence behavior by acting as rewarding and cuing stimuli in drug dependence. When drugs serve as rewards and motivate new behavior, drug-taking behavior develops. When drugs serve as cues (called discriminative stimuli), people learn to identify their characteristic effects in the body, such as changes in mood and emotion. These cues may reinstate drug-taking behavior and certainly play a role in the relapse of drug addiction. Using the drug discrimination method in the laboratory, subjects are specifically trained to recognize these drug effects. Investigators can then measure drug effects in a precise, quantitative, and reliable manner using drug discrimination methods and related approaches. One of the main goals of SSPD is the acquisition, exchange and distribution of information concerning recent research in the field of stimulus properties of drugs. In this application, the SSPD is requesting support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support our satellite symposium to the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society Conference in Barcelona, Spain on September 9, 2005. Our organization is uniquely qualified to address three important issues in drug abuse and addiction in our satellite symposium: 1) the role of discriminative stimulus and conditioned drug effects in the reinstatement and relapse of drug abuse; 2) the training and development of graduate students and junior colleagues interested in the advancement of drug abuse research, especially in regards to stimulus effects and drug cues; and finally 3) the open dialogue and exchange between senior NIDA-funded researchers and our European colleagues on the contribution of various drug cues to the acquisition, maintenance and treatment of drug addiction. For this day-long satellite session, papers will be solicited from all members and interested scientists from SSPD, EBPS, or the scientific community at large by announcing the meeting and presentations on our website, the EBPS website, our own electronic newsletter (February 2005), as well as a series of relevant listserves. Finally, as in previous years (1978-1998), the proceeding of our international satellite will be submitted for review for publication. The SSPD Satellite to the EBPS 2005 Conference promises to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information to further our understanding of drug abuse.