Opioids, Behavior, and Learning in Mammalian Development

Abstract

focuses on how opioid peptides mediate and modulate infant affective states and reward mechanisms interaction of pleasure and pain systems because early learning influences mother-infant cohesion, the role of the opioids in this social context is explored evidence for early anatomical and biochemical developments of the opioid systems is reviewed first because it then becomes feasible to propose their possible behavioral functions pharmacology of opioids in the developing animal / behavioral functioning of neonatal opioid systems / negative reinforcement of opioids in neonates (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)