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The modern behavioral task, introduced by Dr. Larry D. Reid, named ______ is used to measure the rewarding aspects of drugs. The brain structures underlying the rewarding properties of drugs of abuse include the cortical-amygdala and orbital frontal cortical pathways and can be reliably demonstrated when animals are tested drug free using a combination of operant and classical conditioning learning tasks

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Conditioned place preference

Step-by-step explanation:

Conditioned place preference is a form of conditioning used to gauge motivation effects of experiences or objects on the test subject.

For example if a person spends more time in the vicinity of a stimulus it indicates the person likes the stimulus.

This can be used to measure rewarding aspects of drugs.

The brain structures underlying the rewarding properties of drugs of abuse include the cortical-amygdala and orbital frontal cortical pathways and can be reliably demonstrated when animals are tested drug free using a combination of operant and classical conditioning learning tasks

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