Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Rats are just one part of the psychopharmecology experiments in the psy- chology department. Senior, Jim Rowlett, from New Bern, NC. injects the rats with a stimulant, apomorphine, on a continual basis. PHOTO BY: Kevin L, Coldyl Psychology Experiments 14

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wive 5cross 5 rope Anny-iSSue clothing evices and familiar. , an area by terrain associ- , The day ended with a meal of hambmgers and shakes and by learning how to put up their tents. One upperclass student added a ll. 0. 'l'. ,. STUDENTS LEARN T0 SURVIVE IN A TRIP T0 THE WILIDS little excitement to the even: y axiving a tent stake , ion and 16mm students how to do r, L , y :eachhg a terrain map and using a compass y , k , On Saturday the Jamar 5 t students returned to campus in style in two Blackhawk helicopters from Fort Bucket; Alabama Captain Bart ieffry, a member of the military science fhcuity, discovered that the Blackhawks were not training that weekemi and asked them to be a part of the military science Held training exercise. They spent the rest of the day giving rides to military science students and anyone else who was interested. B

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Psychologg students take The Rat Direction BY.- Christie Sheppard and James Davis , Dr. Bruce Mattingly, associate professor of psycholo- gy has been conducting psychopharmecology ex eri- ments designed to discover the eEects of certain rugs on experimental rats. The experiments have been going on for three years. , Mattingly, with thehelp of Billie Jo Hatton, Jamison Craft, Jim Rowlett, and John White, has been adminis- tering centrally active drugs to rats to discover the ef- fects of the drugs onetheiry behavior. These; drugs are administered on a continual basis to determine if the effects change over time. . One of the drugs being given to the rats is a stimulant, apomorphine, not a derivitive of morphine. It is similar to cocaine, but it is not an abusive drug to humans be- cause it induces vomiting. This drug is effective on rats because they do not have a regurgitating mechanism. This drug aHects the dopamine system, a chemical sys- tem within the brain. Imbalances of this system have been linked to Parkinsonis disease and schizophrenia in humans. Instead of developin a tolerancy, preliminary results show that the drugs e ect increases over an ex- tended i eriodeof time. i Hope ully, from this research it can be determined what the long range consequences are and how they relate to a humanis continual usage of a drug. . Behavior altering drugs are injected into laboratory rats as a part of the experiments. Rowlett, along with other students, is part of this experiment sponsored by the psychology department. PHOTO BY- Kevin L. Goldy. Rats are kept in dark, isolated moms after being injected with the stimulant. Rowlett and Mattingly check and monitor the behavior of each rat very Psychology Experiments closely. The experiments hope to show the results of a humaxfs continual use ofta drug. PHOTO BY: Kevin L. Goldy. i i t V t 15