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J T Treadway

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PubMed1995

Opiate antagonists for recurrent self-injurious behavior in three mentally retarded adults.

Opiate antagonists have shown promise for treating a subset of self injurious patients. The authors report on the use of naltrexone with three mentally retarded adults who had long histories of self-injurious behavior and unsuccessful behavioral and drug treatments; for all three, the self- injurious behavior was substantially decreased. The authors have found a positive response for half the self-injurious patients for whom naltrexone has been tried. Before any drug therapy is initiated, environmental reinforcers of the behavior should be sought out and modified, and any reversible medical and psychiatric disorders should be treated.

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PubMed1975

Preference and discrimination between response-dependent and response-independent schedules of reinforcement.

Four Asian quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were exposed to concurrent-chain schedules, the terminal links of which were either variable-interval 30 sec and variable-time 30 sec, or fixed-interval 30 sec and fixed-time 30 sec. Except for one bird that exhibited a preference for the variable-interval schedule over the variable-time schedule, no consistent preferences were demonstrated for response-dependent or response-independent schedules. However, response rates were three times greater on response-dependent than on response-independent schedules. The discrimination between terminal-link schedules was rapidly recovered after the schedule positions were reversed. Casual observations revealed that the birds engaged in stereotypic circling and pecking while the response-independent schedules were operative.

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