Project_02 Q34 StudyTitle Probing the neurochemistry of sensitization and compulsive checking: dopamine and serotonin systems

This study (Q34) is one of a series of studies performed in the Szechtman lab at McMaster University and deposited in the FRDR public repository as a collection under the name "A Digital Library of Behavioural Performance in Standardized Conditions - Szechtman Lab Collection". This collection as a whole constitutes a big dataset containing raw data objects of video, track, and path plot records of rats exploring for 55 minutes a large testing environment in a standardized paradigm during chronic treatment with psychostimulant drugs; for details of this big dataset see, https://www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/collection/szechtmanlab. The historical context for study Q34 was Project_02 entitled: "Probing the neurochemistry of sensitization and compulsive checking". Title of the fist experiment in Q34 was "Comparison of the QNP (0.2 mg/kg) and the 8OHDPAT (1 mg/kg) effects on the development of sensitization and compulsive checking". Title of the second experiment in Q34 was "Effect of QNP+8OHDPAT co-treatment on the expression of sensitization and compulsive checking" Study Q34 was part also of a second project, Project_04 entitled: "Probing for drugs that mitigate sensitization and compulsive checking" where title of the experiment was "Effect of acute escitalopram on the expression of sensitization and compulsive checking".