After posting my reply re spiders on acid (a different recollection
than yours) I looked over the bit on working for {*filter*} and decided to
add this (a bit more recent): poster at Society for Neuroscience
meeting last month, but also already published in _Science_
1998,282,298-300, Ahmed SH & Koob, GF.
Rats pumping for {*filter*} infusion allowed only one hour access per
session developed a habit, but only thoose give 6 hours access per
session showed "progression" of their {*filter*}ion (i.e. gradually
increasing tthe amount they pumped).
After enforced abstinence for 35 days (a very LONG rat "detox"), both
groups of rats pumped at the same rate as the "non-progressed" rats
did, i.e. relatively little, for the first couple of sessions of their
"relapse"--but in subsequent sessions the rats who had shown
"progression" previously had a MUCH greater progression than before,
much more rapidly and to a much higher level.
(This accords with reports from AA and NA members who have relapsed or
"slipped" after a period of abstinence)
Results were interpreted in terms of an altered "hedonic set
point"--the rats were trying to get a better high...
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group
writes:
Quote:
>>I once heard about an experiment where a spider was...what's the
>>word... 'infected'?...with {*filter*} in order to measure the their
effects
>>on animals or something. Anyway, apperently, when the spider was on
>>speed, the webs it spun were totally disorganized and chaotic. When
it
>>was on LSD, the webs were much more intricate and detailed than
>>normally.
>> Anyone heard of this experiment or is it nonsense?
>Don't jump to conclusions, I have in front of me five photographs from
the
>same experiment. You'll find it in Time: Secrets of Inner Mind.
Timelife
>series. This text does not reference the research but I believe ...
>Title [Intoxication
> Author [Siegel,Ronald
>Does. It also has a whole series of surveys on various animals on
{*filter*},
>like the rat they gave a {*filter*} pellet to and it then received food.
Next
>time it had to press the lever twice to get the pellet, then four,
then 8
>... all the way up to 64, 000 presses of the lever for one pellet.
>John.
>>Thanks.
>>--Mike.
Spider on drugs?