Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital

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Assessment of Cocaine-induced Behavioral Sensitization and Conditioned Place Preference in Mice

Laura N. Smith^*1, Rachel D. Penrod^*1, Makoto Taniguchi¹, Christopher W. Cowan¹

¹Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital

This protocol is intended to enable researchers to conduct experiments designed to test these aspects of addiction using the conditioned place preference and locomotor behavioral sensitization assays.