there is an increasing awareness that a psychosis , similar to that of schizophrenic psychosis , can be derived from cocaine addiction . thus , the prototypical atypical antipsychotic medication , clozapine , a 5 - ht 2 / da 2 antagonist , was studied for its effects on cocaine - induced dopamine ( da ) and serotonin ( 5 - ht ) release in nucleus accumbens ( nacc ) of behaving sprague dawley laboratory rats with in vivo microvoltammetry , while animals &# 39 ; locomotor ( forward ambulations ), an a 10 behavior , was monitored at the same time with infrared photobeams . release mechanisms for monoamines , were determined by using a depolarization blocker , gamma - butyrolactone ( γbl ). broderick probe ® microelectrodes selectively detected release of da and 5 - ht within seconds and sequentially in a 10 nerve terminals , nacc . acute and subacute studies were performed for each treatment group . acute studies are defined as single injection of drug ( s ) after a stable baseline of each monoamine and locomotor behavior has been achieved . subacute studies are defined as 24 hr follow - up studies on each monoamine and locomotor behavior , in the same animal at which time , no further drug was administered . results showed that ( 1 ) acute administration of cocaine ( 10 mg / kg , i . p .) ( n = 5 ) significantly increased both da and 5 - ht release above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) while locomotion was also significantly increased above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). in subacute studies , da release decreased significantly below baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) and significant decreases in 5 - ht release occurred at the 15 min mark and at each time point during the second part of the hr ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ); the maximum decrease in 5 - ht was 40 % below baseline . locomotor behavior , on the other hand , increased significantly above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ). ( 2 ) acute administration of clozapine / cocaine ( 20 mg / kg i . p . and 10 mg / kg i . p ., respectively ) ( n = 6 ) produced a significant block of the cocaine - induced increase in da ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) and 5 - ht release ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). cocaine - induced locomotion was blocked simultaneously with each monoamine by clozapine as well ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). in subacute studies , da release continued to be blocked presumably via clozapine by exhibiting a statistically significant decrease ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ), but 5 - ht release increased significantly ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ), while cocaine - induced locomotor activity also continued to be antagonized by clozapine , i . e ., locomotor activity exhibited no difference from baseline ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 ). in summary , acute studies ( a ) support previous data from this laboratory and others that cocaine acts as a stimulant on the monoamines , da and 5 - ht and on locomotor behavior as well and ( b ) show that clozapine , 5 - ht 2 / da 2 antagonist , blocked enhanced da , 5 - ht and psychomotor stimulant behavior induced by cocaine . subacute studies ( a ) suggest that withdrawal responses occurred in the cocaine group , based on recorded deficiencies in monoamine neurotransmitters , ( b ) show that withdrawal effects in the cocaine group likely presynaptic , were distinguished from locomotor behavior , classically known to be mediated postsynaptically and finally , ( c ) suggest that clozapine , with longer - lived pharmacokinetic properties , reversed 5 - ht cocaine - related withdrawal effects , but was unable to reverse da cocaine - related withdrawal responses . taken together with data from this laboratory , in which the 5 - ht 2a / 2c antagonist , ketanserin , affected cocaine neurochemistry in much the same way as did clozapine , a mediation by either separate or combined 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptors for these clozapine / cocaine interactions , is suggested . further studies , designed to tease out the responses of selective 5 - ht 2a and 5 - ht 2c receptor compounds to cocaine and clozapine / cocaine , are underway . clozapine was obtained from sigma / aldrich , st . louis , mo ., dissolved in distilled water , and the ph of the solution was adjusted to 2 . 7 with citric acid powder . cocaine was obtained from sigma aldrich , st . louis , mo . and dissolved in distilled water . animals were purchased from charles river laboratories , kingston , n . y . and were housed in our animal care facilities for one to two weeks before surgery was performed . the animal care facility operates under the auspices of the cuny , city college institutional animal care and use committee ( iacuc ) in compliance with national institute of health ( nih ) guidelines . the weight range for the animals , at the time of the studies , was 350 - 475 g . animals were group housed before surgery , individually housed after surgery and fed purina rat chow and water ad libitum . a twelve hr dark - light cycle was maintained both in the housing of the animals and throughout the experimental studies . each animal was anesthetized with pentobarbital na , ( 50 mg / kg i . p ., ( dilute ( 6 %) solution )) and stereotaxically implanted with a broderick probe ® indicator microelectrode in ventrolateral ( vl ) nacc ( ap =+ 2 . 6 , ml =+ 2 . 5 , dv =− 7 . 3 ) ( pellegrino et al ., 1979 ). the stereotaxic equipment was purchased from david kopf instruments , tujunga , calif . a ag / agcl reference electrode was placed in contact with dura , 7 mm anteriorally and contralaterally to the indicator microelectrode . a stainless steel auxiliary microelectrode was placed in contact with dura . broderick probe ® microelectrodes were manufactured on site . the broderick probe ® electrode is described in the following united states and international patents and applications : u . s . pat . no . 4 , 883 , 057 ; u . s . pat . no . 5 , 433 , 710 ; wo 91 / 02485 ; ep 0487647 b1 ; hk 1007350 ; ca 2 , 063 , 607 ; u . s . application ser . no . 10 / 118 , 571 , and u . s . provisional patent application no . 60 / 526 , 833 , which are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety . animals &# 39 ; body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal probe and thermometer ( fisher sci ., fadem , n . j .). body temperature was maintained at 37 . 5 ° c .± 0 . 5 ° c . with an aquamatic k module heating pad ( amer . hosp . supply , edison , n . j .). booster injections of pentobarbital na were administered once after the first two hrs of surgery ( 0 . 10 cc ) and once every subsequent hr ( 0 . 05 cc ) to maintain an adequate level of anesthesia throughout surgery . the total time for surgery was three to four hrs . the indicator , reference , and auxiliary microelectrodes were held in place with dental acrylic ( jet line , lang dental inc ., ca ). animals recovered in a bedded plexiglas cage ( dimensions : 12 in ( width ), 12 in ( depth ), 18 in ( height )) after surgery and before the experimental studies began , with food and water ad libitum . the animals were treated with physiological saline ( 0 . 5 cc ) immediately and for one to two days after surgery as needed . the antibiotic , chloramphenicol ( 50 mg / kg i . p .) was administered if needed . in vivo microvoltammetric studies on conscious sprague - dawley laboratory rats were begun nine to fifteen days after the aseptic surgical operations were performed . on each experimental day , the animal was placed in a plexiglas - copper faradaic chamber . the three - microelectrode assembly , enclosed within the animal &# 39 ; s prosthetic acrylic cap , was connected to a cv37 detector by means of a mercury commutator ( br . res . instr ., princeton , n . j . ), a flexible cable , and a mating connector ( bjm electronics , staten island , n . y .). the cv37 detector was electrically connected to a minigard surge suppresser ( jefferson electric , magnetek , n . y .) which was then connected to an electrical ground in isolation . stable electrochemical signals for da and 5 - ht were evident before either ( i ) clozapine ( 20 mg / kg i . p . ), ( ii ) cocaine ( 10 mg / kg i . p .) or ( iii ) combination of clozapine and cocaine ( 20 mg / kg i . p . and 10 mg / kg i . p ., respectively ) were administered . each animal was used as its own control . changes in synaptic concentrations of da and 5 - ht are presented as percent change (% of control ) in order to minimize normal between - animal variations . currents recorded were in the order of magnitude of pa or na . in vivo microvoltammetric scans were recorded in sec and repeated every five min for a period of 2 hrs before each treatment and a period of two hrs after each treatment . in vivo microvoltammetry with a semidifferential ( semiderivative ) circuit was used ; a clear separation of the monoamine neurotransmitters , da and 5 - ht was achieved . dopamine and 5 - ht were detected within sec , in separate signals . oxidation peak potentials ( half - wave potentials ) of + 0 . 14 ± 0 . 015v and + 0 . 29 ± 0 . 015v were characteristic for da and 5 - ht . detailed methodology is published ( broderick , 1988 ; broderick , 1989 ; broderick , 1990 ; broderick , 1991b ; broderick et al ., 1993 ; broderick , 1999 ; broderick et al ., 2000 ; broderick , 2001 ; broderick , 2002 ; broderick and pacia , 2003 ). the electrochemical signal for da was detected without interference at the same oxidation potential , from 3 - 4 - dihydroxyphenylacetic acid ( dopac ), homovanillic acid ( hva ) and ascorbic acid ( aa ). indeed , clear and separated signals are routinely achieved with broderick probe ® microelectrodes for aa , hva and dopac . the electrochemical signal for 5 - ht was detected without interference at the same oxidation potential , from the 5 - ht metabolite , 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid ( 5 - hiaa ) and uric acid ( ua ). potentials were applied with a cv37 detector ( bas , west lafayette , ind .). potentials were applied from − 0 . 2v to + 0 . 4v with respect to a ag / agcl ( 1m nacl ) electrode , at a scan rate of 10 mv / sec at time constants of 5 and 1 tau . one scan was completed in 60 sec . non - faradaic charging current was eliminated in the first 25 sec . the neurotransmitters , da and 5 - ht , were detected in approximately 10 - 15 sec . and 10 - 12 sec , respectively with broderick probe ® stearic acid microelectrodes and 10 - 12 sec and 8 - 10 sec , respectively , with broderick probe ® lauric acid microelectrodes . the coulombic efficiency for the detection of 5 - ht was two to three fold greater than that for da ( broderick , 1987 ). calibration curves were determined experimentally , in vitro , in a freshly prepared deoxygenated physiological saline - phosphate buffer solution ( 0 . 01 m , ph = 7 . 4 ). we use ultra pure nitrogen ( n 2 ) ( t . w . smith corp ., bklyn , n . y .) to deoxygenate the buffer solution . solutions of da and 5 - ht ( 99 % purity , sigma aldrich , st . louis , mo .) as well as metabolites of the monoamines , were aliquoted into the buffer and the peak height of the electrochemical signals were correlated with specific nm and um concentrations . calibration studies were also performed in freshly prepared deoxygenated buffer solutions containing phosphotidylethanolamine ( pea ), combined with bovine serum albumin ( bsa ) ( sigma aldrich , st . louis , mo . ), a solution which closely mimics brain constituents . these studies showed that lipid constituents of brain and not proteins , amplify the detection sensitivity of the indicator microelectrodes , supporting previous data which show that lipids amplify electrochemical signals detected by broderick probe ® microelectrodes ; the phenomenon is termed the lipid amplification number ( lan ) ( broderick , 1999 ; broderick et al ., 2000 ). surface enhanced raman spectroscopy ( sers ) and raman resonance ( rr ) techniques have correlated our findings on signal amplification by lipids ( foucault et al ., 2002 ). detection limits for basal synaptic concentrations of da and 5 - ht in nacc were 12 nm and 2 nm respectively . placement of indicator microelectrodes in nacc of each animal , was confirmed by the potassium ferrocyamide blue dot method , using a current of 50 ma for period of 30 sec . virtually no damage to brain tissue occurred . recording characteristics of microelectrodes were stable . locomotor activity ( ambulation ) was monitored with infrared photobeams at the same time as da and 5 - ht release in nacc was detected with broderick probes ® in conjunction with in vivo microvoltammetry . the chamber was faradaic , covered with copper to refract possible electrical artifacts ( dimensions : 24 in ( width ) by 18 in ( depth ) by 23 . 5 in ( height )). a 16 by 16 array of these infrared photobeams , were held in place by an aluminum frame which was situated ¾ in above the plexiglas floor of the chamber to detect locomotor activity . photobeams were sampled by a pentium computer to define the x - y position of the animal within a 1 . 5 in resolution every 100 msec . when an x - y position was calculated , it was used to define the frequency of locomotor activity in counts . the locomotor activity system is a modified version of an activity pattern monitor ( apm ) ( san diego instruments , san diego , calif .). behavioral data is presented in absolute frequency , i . e ., number of counts recorded . the first hr pre - drug allowed exploratory behavior . exploratory behavior is defined as open - field behavior of ambulations ( forward locomotion ) wherein animals respond to the stimuli of a novel environment with high frequency of behavioral counts . the second hr pre - drug allowed the animal to become habituated before treatment . habituation behavior is defined as a behavioral state in which behavior exhibits reduced responses to novel stimuli ; animals cease exploring or searching in their novel environment and maintain a steady - state response to novel stimuli . in the acute studies , each drug was administered at the end of the habituation period . baseline ( control ) values were taken every five min for the last thirty min of the habituation period at which time drug injection ( s ) took place . electrochemical recordings for da and 5 - ht release in nacc , were continued for two hrs ; at the same time , locomotor behavior continued to be monitored and recorded with infrared photobeams . at the end of the 2 hr drug ( s ) study , animals were then placed back in their home cages . in the subacute studies , which took place twenty - four hrs later , the animals were again placed in the faradaic behavioral chamber and no further drug was administered . recordings of separate electrochemical signals for da and 5 - ht release in nacc , were taken for one hr ; at the same time , locomotor behavior was monitored and recorded with infrared photobeams . neurochemical and behavioral data , derived from the last thirty minutes of the habituation period , provided the baseline data . statistically significant differences between baseline and post - drug injection ( s ) for ( 1 ) da , ( 2 ) 5 - ht and ( 3 ) locomotor behavior were determined by subjecting the data to one way analysis of variance ( anova ) ( tested at criteria p = 0 . 05 ), with subsequent application of the post hoc test , tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test . where appropriate , data points in the time course were subjected to 95 % confidence limits ( c . l .). fig1 a : day 1 : acute studies : effects of cocaine or clozapine / cocaine combination on da release in nacc : cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased da release over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 51 . 17 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 9 . 498 ). clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) clozapine significantly blocked the effects of cocaine on da release ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 51 . 17 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed significant differences between cocaine and clozapine / cocaine groups ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 16 . 43 ). fig1 b : day 1 : acute studies : effects of cocaine and clozapine / cocaine combination on 5 - ht release in nacc : cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased 5 - ht release over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 154 . 2 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 16 . 19 ). clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) clozapine significantly blocked the effects of cocaine on 5 - ht release ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 154 . 2 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed significant differences between cocaine and clozapine / cocaine groups ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 28 . 98 ). fig1 c : day 1 : acute studies : effects of cocaine and clozapine / cocaine combination on locomotion ( ambulations ): cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased locomotor activity ( ambulations ) over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 13 . 06 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 01 , q = 5 . 688 ). clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) clozapine significantly blocked the effects of cocaine on locomotor activity ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 , f = 13 . 06 ; df = 3 . 56 ). post hoc analysis showed significant differences between cocaine and clozapine / cocaine groups ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 7 . 784 ). fig2 a : day 2 : subacute studies : effects of cocaine or clozapine / cocaine combination on da release in nacc : cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further cocaine was administered , da release in nacc significantly decreased from baseline ( habituation ) values ( from a significant increase ) ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 106 . 3 ; df = 3 . 30 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 18 . 99 ). compared to drug effect on day 1 , da release was decreased dramatically by about 80 % during the hr period of study . clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further drug ( s ) were administered , da release in nacc significantly decreased from baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 106 . 3 ; df = 3 . 30 ). post hoc analysis showed that a significant difference occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ). ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 16 . 48 ). a significant difference between cocaine and clozapine / cocaine ( day2 ) groups did not occur ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 16 . 48 ). fig2 b : day 2 : subacute studies : effects of cocaine or clozapine / cocaine combination on 5 - ht release in nacc : cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further cocaine was administered , 5 - ht release in nacc was decreased below baseline ( day1 ) values compared to ( day2 ) values , at specific time points during the time course of the 1 hr study , i . e ., at the 15 min mark and at each time point in second part of the hr ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ); ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 38 . 99 ; df = 3 . 30 ), although the post hoc analysis did not show statistical significance for the hr ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 3 . 225 ). compared to drug effect on day1 , 5 - ht release was decreased dramatically by approximately 150 % in the second half hour of the study . clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further drug ( s ) were administered , 5 - ht release in nacc was significantly increased above ( day1 ) baseline values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 38 . 99 ; df = 3 . 30 ), post hoc analysis showed significant differences between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 7 . 704 ). significant differences occurred between cocaine ( day2 ) and clozapine / cocaine groups ( day2 ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 14 . 90 ). fig2 c : day 2 : subacute studies : effects of cocaine or clozapine / cocaine combination on locomotion ( ambulations ): cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further cocaine was administered , locomotor activity on ( day2 ) was significantly increased over baseline ( day1 ) values ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0186 ; f = 3 . 843 ; df = 3 . 32 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 05 , q = 3 . 925 ). nonetheless , locomotor activity decreased by 250 counts when compared with ( day 1 ) effects of cocaine - induced psychomotor stimulation . clozapine / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subacute studies , when no further cocaine or clozapine were administered , locomotor activity remained significantly decreased ( one way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 0186 ; f = 3 . 843 ; df = 3 . 32 ). post hoc analysis showed that no significant differences occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 03647 ). moreover , ( day2 ) cocaine and clozapine / cocaine groups did significantly differ ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 05 , q = 3 . 846 ). cocaine , monoamines and psychomotor stimulant behavior : acute studies : we have extended our work from two recent articles on the effects of cocaine on da and 5 - ht release in nacc of freely moving and behaving laboratory rats while monitoring cocaine - induced psychomotor stimulant behavior simultaneously . comparing the present data to the first of these recent papers ( broderick et al ., 2003 ), we have simply added animals to our cocaine group . comparing the present data to the second of these recent papers ( broderick and piercey , 1998b ), an entirely different group of animals was utilized . the results from all three studies from our laboratory were equivalent , i . e ., increased da , 5 - ht release in nacc occurred with increased psychomotor stimulant behavior ( broderick , 2001 ; broderick et al ., 2003 ). cocaine , monoamines and psychomotor stimulant behavior : subacute studies : cocaine studies in the subacute group were also extended by increasing the number of animals above what was used in our previous studies ( broderick et al ., 2003 ); again , the results were equivalent . when no further drug was administered , there was a significant decrease in da release in nacc and significant decreases in 5 - ht release during specific points in the time course data . the data are in agreement with several reports ( parsons et al ., 1995 ; parsons et al ., 1996 ; broderick et al ., 1997 ). in addition , the data agree with a previous report showing long - lasting effects after a single moderate dose of cocaine ( zahniser et al ., 1988 ). behavioral activity maintained an increase at the same time that accumbens da and 5 - ht release were decreased , thereby suggesting dissociative function between behavior classically known to be mediated via da 2 postsynaptically and monoamine release and reuptake inhibitory mechanisms , presynaptically . the subacute data suggest that these monoamine deficiencies may be associated with symptoms of withdrawal and the data agree with clinical reports of da - ergic systems and craving ( dackis and gold , 1985 ; gawin and kleber , 1986a ; gawin and kleber , 1986b ; lieberman et al ., 1990 ; margolin et al ., 1995 ). neuroadaptation may be occurring as reported in animal studies ( koob and nestler , 1997 ; broderick , 2001 ) because neither the short pharmacokinetic half - life of cocaine nor that of its metabolites , provides a rational explanation ( misra et al ., 1974a , b ; nayak et al ., 1976 ; mets et al ., 1999 ; sun and lau , 2001 ). of course , another plausible explanation though , is one provided by others , that transient compensatory changes take place a day after cocaine cessation ( zahniser et al ., 1988 ). cocaine , monoamine interactions , possible mechanisms : classical cocaine mechanisms point to a postsynaptic da 2 release with additional da release derived presynaptically from da somatodendrites , vta . current thinking on the mechanism of action of cocaine points to a da / 5 - ht interaction in da mesolimbic circuits . a postsynaptic 5 - ht - ergic upmodulation of da in nacc has been implicated ; the 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptor has been shown to upmodulate da release in nacc after intermittent cocaine ( yan et al ., 2000 ) and endogenously , as well ( yan , 2000 ). local application ( infusion ) of [(+/−)- 2 , 5 - dimethoxy - 4 - iodoamphetamine hydrochloride ] ( doi ), a 5 - ht 2a / 2c agonist , was infused into nacc to increase da which was subsequently blocked by ketanserin , a 5 - ht 2a / 2c antagonist . furthermore , infusion of doi in nacc was antagonized by the selective 5 - ht 2c / 2b receptor antagonist , sb 206553 , but not by the selective 5 - ht 2a antagonist , sr 46349b ( lucas and spampinato , 2000 ), suggesting that da increases in nacc after infusion of doi may be due to a mediation by the 5 - ht 2c receptor . however , prematurely pointing specifically to the 5 - ht 2c receptor for cocaine &# 39 ; s mechanism of action may present a limitation because local application ( infusion into nacc ) of 5 - ht 2c receptor agonists did not alter basal locomotor activity nor mimic the stimulus effects of cocaine ( mcmahon et al ., 2001 ; filip and cunningham , 2002 ). also , a recent report shows that a 5 - ht 2a receptor mediation is prominent in blocking cocaine - induced locomotor activity ( mcmahon and cunningham , 2001 ). therefore , the mechanism of action of cocaine is probably dually directed , i . e ., via classical da 2 and currently explored 5 - ht 2a / 2c / da 2 receptor circuits . although studies by di matteo et al ., 1999 , do not address cocaine , the data do importantly show the direct autoreceptor properties of selective 5 - ht 2c receptor compounds viz a viz the effects of these compounds when locally applied by infusion . thus , the selective 5 - ht 2c antagonist , sb 242084 , increased and the selective 5 - ht 2c agonist , ro 60 - 0175 , decreased da release in nacc ( di matteo et al ., 1999 ). clozapine / cocaine : acute studies : clozapine significantly reduced cocaine - induced increases in da release in nacc by an average of 40 % in the first hr of study and 50 % in the second hr of study . simultaneously , clozapine significantly reduced cocaine - induced increases in 5 - ht release in nacc by an average of 138 % in the first hr of study and average of 113 % in the second hr of study . also , at the same time , locomotor activity ( ambulation counts ) produced by cocaine , were reduced by an average of 500 counts in the first half hr and by an average of 150 counts in the next hr of study . since these are the first studies of this kind ever performed , direct comparisons cannot be made . nonetheless , the present studies are in general agreement with preclinical studies in which clozapine was shown to antagonize cocaine - induced place preference in animals ( kosten and nestler , 1994 ) and to block reinforcement by intravenous cocaine in animals ( loh et al ., 1992 ). clozapine / cocaine : possible mechanisms of action : acute studies : without being bound by theory , the data suggest that increased 5 - ht by cocaine leads to an increase in da release perhaps via either a separate or combined 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptor mediation which is subsequently blocked by clozapine . this suggestion is made because of previous reports of the importance of 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptors either alone or combined in cocaine mechanisms ( yan , 2000 ; yan et al ., 2000 ; mcmahon and cunningham , 2001 ; filip and cunningham , 2002 ) and because clozapine is , in fact , the prototypical atypical 5 - ht 2a / da 2 receptor antagonist , although not exclusively bound to these two types of receptors . clozapine has high antagonist affinity for the 5 - ht 2c receptor and indeed , phosphoinositol inverse agonist activity at the 5 - ht 2c receptor ( kuoppamaki et al ., 1995 ; herrick - davis et al ., 1999 ; herrick - davis et al ., 2000 ) has been shown specifically in nacc , in the action of clozapine ( di matteo et al ., 2002 ). classical da 2 postsynaptic antagonism of cocaine - induced psychomotor stimulant behavior by clozapine probably accounts , at least in part , for the complete blockade of motor activity observed . interestingly , in the apomorphine - induced hypomotility test , clozapine did not antagonize this presynaptic response , unlike the da 2 / 3 antipsychotic agent , sulpiride ( robertson and macdonald , 1986 ). a mediation by 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptors in the mechanism of action for clozapine &# 39 ; s blockade of cocaine , is also suggested . in acute studies performed in this laboratory , we substituted ( 3 mg / kg s . c .) ketanserin , a 5 - ht 2a / 2c antagonist , for clozapine and the results were remarkably similar to clozapine in blocking cocaine - induced monoamine release and psychomotor stimulant behavior , although ketanserin blockade of cocaine was actually weaker than that of clozapine in all three parameters studied ( broderick et al ., 2001 ). these results were published in broderick , p a , olabisi , o a , rahni , d n , and zhou , y . cocaine acts on accumbens mono - amines and locomoter behavior via 5 - ht2a / 2c receptor mechanism as shown by ketanserin : 24 h follow - up studies . progress in neuro - psychopharmacology & amp ; biological psychiatry , vol . 28 ( 2004 ) 547 - 557 , which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety . this work was also the subject of a presentation given at the society for neuroscience meeting on nov . 12 , 2003 in new orleans . the presentation is summarized in fig3 a - 3n . ketanserin and clozapine do not have similar receptor profiles , in general , but ketanserin is similar to clozapine in that both are direct receptor antagonists which bind with high affinity to 5 - ht 2a , 5 - ht 2c , adrenergic ( α 1 ) and histamine ( h 1 ) receptors ; ketanserin does not bind to da receptors ( lutje - hulsik , 2002 ; duffy et al ., 2000 ). the strong α 1 influence is a concern , but there is good evidence that only 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptors are involved and α 1 adrenoreceptors are not involved in the mechanism of cocaine &# 39 ; s stimulant activity ( filip et al ., 2001 ). the high antagonist affinity for h 1 receptors on the part of both ketanserin and clozapine , is probably not a concern . studies on h 1 and even h 2 promoter polymorphisms conclude that participation of these receptors has an unlikely influence in the clinical response to clozapine treatment ( mancama et al ., 2002 ). thus , 5 - ht 2a / 2c properties for clozapine are highly likely mechanisms for clozapine &# 39 ; s antagonism of cocaine effects . these results were published in broderick , p a , olabisi , o a , rahni , d n , and zhou , y . cocaine acts on accumbens mono - amines and locomoter behavior via 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptor mechanism as shown by ketanserin : 24 h follow - up studies . progress in neuro - psychopharmacology & amp ; biological psychiatry , vol . 28 ( 2004 ) 547 - 557 , which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety . this work was also the subject of a presentation given at the society for neuroscience meeting on nov . 12 , 2003 in new orleans . the presentation is summarized in fig3 a - 3n . it is interesting that studies on risperidone &# 39 ; s effects on cocaine - induced stimulant monoamine neurochemistry and locomotor behavior , showed that risperidone completely blocked 5 - ht release in nacc and simultaneous locomotor activity but did not completely block da release on nacc . indeed , risperidone significantly increased da release in the second hr of the study , given the caveat that high dose risperidone ( 2 mg / kg s . c .) was tested ( broderick et al ., 2003 ) ( see below ). clozapine / cocaine : subacute studies : results showed that da release in nacc , at this time , decreased by an average of 60 % during the hr of study , while 5 - ht release increased by 50 % above baseline for the hr of study and locomotor activity remained reduced by an average of 250 ambulatory counts in the first 20 min . it is important to note that these long lasting effects of clozapine are supported by pharmacokinetics . the half - life of clozapine is 8 hrs at lower doses and 4 - 66 hrs at higher doses ; the hydroxiated and n - oxide derivatives are reported to be inactive ( rx list monographs , 2002 ). interestingly , preliminary data from our laboratory have shown that significantly increased 5 - ht release after combined clozapine / cocaine administration , does not begin to diminish until the fifth day of recovery after drug administration . clozapine / cocaine : possible mechanisms of action : subacute studies : the occurrence of increased 5 - ht release in subacute studies may be explained by clozapine &# 39 ; s mechanism than by cocaine &# 39 ; s mechanism . if we look at clozapine , 5 - ht presynaptic autoreceptors , as studied in synaptosomes , may lend an explanatory note ( drescher and hetey , 1988 ). also , presumably by autoreceptors , clozapine increased da efflux in nacc ( volonte et al ., 1997 ; kuroki et al ., 1999 ), da and 5 - ht release in nacc in the behaving animal ( broderick et al ., unpublished data ; ichikawa et al ., 1998 ) and da and 5 - ht release in nacc in the anesthetized animal ( broderick and piercey , 1998a ). therefore , increased 5 - ht release , as shown in these subacute studies , may be mediated by inhibitory presynaptic autoreceptors . the explanation for decreased da release is not apparent , unless this da decrease is simply compensatory ( herve et al ., 1979 ; beart and mcdonald , 1982 ). moreover , increased 5 - ht release on the second day of study might possibly have been derived from increased cocaine serum levels due to the longer lasting effects of clozapine since a clinical study reported enhanced cocaine serum levels after administration of both clozapine and cocaine to cocaine addicts ( farren et al ., 2000 ). it is noteworthy that increased 5 - ht release on the second day of study , did not occur in a risperidone / cocaine group ( broderick et al ., 2003 ). thus far , research in our laboratory suggests that clozapine &# 39 ; s action on cocaine is mediated at least partly , via 5 - ht 2a / 2c receptors because the results presented here , from clozapine / cocaine combination studies , resemble those obtained during subacute studies when substituting the 5 - ht 2a / 2c antagonist , ketanserin for clozapine . in subacute studies with ketanserin / cocaine , when no further ketanserin or cocaine was administered , da release in nacc decreased and 5 - ht increased to a statistically significant level , just as did results , subacutely , in the clozapine / cocaine group . there were some differences in monoamine reactions during the subacute studies between the ketanserin / cocaine group and the clozapine / cocaine group , e . g ., the da response was weaker and the 5 - ht response was somewhat stronger . notably , locomotor activity was significantly higher on the second day for the ketanserin / cocaine group viz - a - viz the clozapine / cocaine group . the clozapine / cocaine group continued to exhibit sedation , possibly through residual potent , muscarinic anticholinergic receptor mediation ( richelson and souder , 2000 ; broderick et al ., 2001 ). on the other hand , the atypical antipsychotic medication , the 5 - ht 2a / da 2 receptor antagonist , risperidone , did not exhibit subacute responses to cocaine as did clozapine . in fact , da and 5 - ht release returned to baseline and locomotor activity increased insignificantly above baseline ( broderick et al ., 2003 ). it is noteworthy however , that studies with the high dose of risperidone ( 2 mg / kg , s . c .) were performed ( broderick et al ., 2003 ). high dose risperidone exhibits more typical than atypical antipsychotic properties ( williams , 2001 ). not to be neglected , though , is a possible mediation by the 5 - ht 1a receptor because clozapine exhibits moderate receptor binding for the 5 - ht 1a receptor ( schotte et al ., 1993 ; sumiyoshi et al ., 1995 ; schotte et al ., 1996 ). importantly , the 5 - ht 1a receptor has been shown clinically to mediate schizophrenic psychosis ( chou et al ., 2003 ) and preclinically , to mediate the action of da in nacc ( ichikawa and meltzer , 2000 ). finally , α 1 antagonism has been shown to mediate inhibition of dorsal raphe ( dr ) firing by clozapine through 5 - ht 1a receptors ( sprouse et al ., 1999 ). conclusions : acute studies showed that clozapine blocked accumbens da , 5 - ht and locomotor effects of cocaine . these studies are the first of their kind . the subacute studies are also unique ; the subacute studies allowed us to study withdrawal effects of cocaine in addition to the unexpected long - lasting effects of clozapine / cocaine treatment on accumbens da and 5 - ht release in the freely moving and behaving animal . enhanced 5 - ht release may , help alleviate clinical depression associated with cocaine withdrawal ( price et al ., 2001 ), although decreased da release could be a disadvantage , possibly leading to craving ( dackis and gold , 1985 ). nonetheless , critical treatment strategies for cocaine addiction and psychosis could be derived from these results . in vivo microvoltammetry was used to detect dopamine ( da ) and serotonin ( 5 - ht ) release from nucleus accumbens ( nacc ) of freely moving , male , sprague dawley laboratory rats , while animals &# 39 ; locomotor ( forward ambulations ) and stereotypic behavior ( fine movements of sniffing and grooming ) were monitored at the same time with infrared photobeams . monoamine release mechanisms were determined by using a depolarization blocker , gamma - butyrolactone ( γbl ). miniature carbon sensors , broderick probe ® lauric acid microelectrodes , smaller than a human hair , were used in conjunction with a semidifferential electrochemical circuit , to detect release of each monoamine in separate signals and within seconds . the purpose was to evaluate the neuropharmacology of the 5 - ht 2 / da 2 antagonist , risperidone , in its current therapeutic role as an atypical antipsychotic medication , as well as in its potential role as pharmacotherapy for cocaine psychosis and withdrawal symptoms . acute ( single drug dose ) and subacute studies ( 24 hr follow - up studies in the same animal , no drug administration ) were performed for each treatment group . the hypothesis for the present studies is derived from a growing body of evidence that cocaine - induced psychosis and schizophrenic psychosis share similar neurochemical and behavioral manifestations . results showed ( 1 ) acute administration of risperidone ( 2 mg / kg , s . c .) significantly increased da and 5 - ht release in nacc above baseline ( habituation ) values ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) while locomotion and stereotypy were virtually unaffected . in subacute studies , da release did not differ from baseline ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 ), whereas 5 - ht release was significantly increased above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). locomotion increased over baseline but not to a significant degree , while stereotypy was significantly increased above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ). ( 2 ) acute administration of cocaine ( 10 mg / kg , i . p .) significantly increased both da and 5 - ht release above baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) while locomotion and stereotypy were also significantly increased over baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). in subacute studies , da decreased significantly below baseline ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) and significant decreases in 5 - ht release occurred at 15 , 20 , 50 and 55 min ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ); behavior increased above baseline , but did not reach a statistically significant degree . ( 3 ) acute administration of risperidone / cocaine ( 2 mg / kg s . c . and 10 mg / kg i . p ., respectively ) showed a significant block of the cocaine - induced increase in da release in the first hr ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ) and 5 - ht release in both hrs of study ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). cocaine - induced locomotion and stereotypy were blocked simultaneously with the monoamines ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). in subacute studies , da and 5 - ht release returned to baseline while locomotion and stereotypy increased insignificantly above baseline . thus , these studies ( a ) were able to tease out pharmacologically , critical differences between pre - vs . post - synaptic responses to drug treatment ( s ) and these differences may lead to more effective therapies for schizophrenic and / or cocaine psychosis . ( b ) taken together with other data , these acute studies suggest that risperidone may possibly act via inhibition of presynaptic autoreceptors to produce the observed increases in accumbens da and 5 - ht release , whereas cocaine may be acting at least in part , via 5 - ht - ergic modulation of da postsynaptically . the subacute data suggest that pharmacokinetics may play a role in risperidone &# 39 ; s action and neuroadaptation may play a role in the mechanism of action of cocaine . finally , the ability of risperidone to block cocaine - induced psychostimulant neurochemistry and behavior during acute studies while diminishing the withdrawal symptoms of cocaine during subacute studies , suggest that risperidone may be a viable pharmacotherapy for cocaine psychosis and withdrawal . schizophrenia : yeats aptly said about schizophrenic psychosis , “ things fall apart ; the center cannot hold ; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world .” ( yeats , 1956 ). schizophrenia is a major mental disorder in which the patient has difficulty in perceiving and then evaluating reality . indeed , “ schizophrenia ” is believed to have earned its name because the patient experiences a “ split ” between thought and affect . although multifaceted , schizophrenia is the prototypical psychosis ; the classical hallmark features are divided into two main categories , positive and negative symptoms . among the positive symptoms are auditory hallucinations , disorganized thoughts and speech , and paranoid delusions . the negative symptoms consist of amotivation , social isolation , poverty of speech and thought ( apa , 2000 ). simply stated , positive symptomatology has been said to reflect an excess of normal function and negative symptomatology seems to reflect a reduction in normal functions ( stahl , 2000 ). although at first glance , the negative symptoms appear to be less disturbing than are positive symptoms in that negative symptoms may not interrupt so blatently the orderly course of life , negative symptoms can be and are debilitating . antipsychotic medication : moreover , negative symptoms are more difficult to reverse than are positive symptoms . in fact , conventional antipsychotic medications , such as haloperidol , a typical antipsychotic , do reverse positive symptoms but are not particularly effective in reversing the negative symptoms of psychosis ( carpenter et al ., 1988 ). atypical antipsychotic medications , such as risperidone , and clozapine , have been used with success for reversal of both the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenic psychosis ( meltzer , 1992 ; conloy and mahmoud , 2001 ). interestingly , typical antipsychotic medications and atypical antipsychotic medications exhibit some general differences as follow : ( 1 ) typical antipsychotic agents are da antagonists which act on da 2 receptors in the nigrostriatal neuronal circuit and induce adverse motor abnormalities , extrapyramidal symptoms ( eps ), likely via this same receptor and da pathway . typicals are effective in reducing positive symptoms of psychosis , presumably also , via the da 2 receptor and high da receptor occupancy ( farde et al ., 1988 ; mukherjee et al ., 2001 ) and typicals have little or no effect on 5 - ht - ergic mechanisms ( broderick and piercey , 1998a ; ichikawa et al ., 1998 ). ( 2 ) atypical antipsychotic drugs act primarily , but not exclusively , on 5 - ht 2 / da 2 receptors in the mesocorticolimbic neuronal circuit to reduce negative as well as positive symptoms of psychosis while reducing the risk of eps ; it is thought that 5ht - ergic modulation of da mediates reduction of eps ( meltzer and nash , 1991 ). ( 3 ) moreover , from the aspect of mood , typical antipsychotic agents may produce anhedonia , i . e ., a loss of “ joie de vivre ” ( blum et al ., 1989 ), whereas the atypical antipsychotic medications have been reported to improve affective disorders , presumably via their 5 - ht - ergic properties ( meltzer , 1989 ). pharmacotherapies for schizophrenia have been reviewed ( seeman , 1987 ; meltzer , 1991 ; king , 1998 ; lieberman et al ., 1998 ; carlsson et al ., 1999 ; kane , 1999 ; fink - jensen , 2000 ; kapur and remington , 2001 ). another differentiation between the two antipsychotic types of medication , comes from pharmacological behavioral studies in animal models . typicals exhibit inhibition of hyperactivity and stereotypy induced by da - ergic drugs and in addition , induce catalepsy in a similar dose range ; atypicals cause selective inhibition of hyperactivity without induction of stereotypy or catalepsy ( weiner et al ., 2000 ; wadenberg et al ., 2001 ). also , in animal models , an atypical antipsychotic agent e . g ., perospirone , another novel 5 - ht 2 / da 2 receptor antagonist , has been differentiated from typical antipsychotic agents on the basis of its preferential ability to induce fos expression in rat forebrain in mesolimbic nacc vs . nigrostriatal dorsolateral striatal terminal ( ishibashi et al , 1999 ). risperidone : risperidone is one of these novel atypical antipsychotic medications with treatment efficacy for both negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia and concomitantly , their use presents less risk of eps ( marder and meibach , 1994 ; lemmens et al ., 1999 ). in a group of schizophrenic patients with disturbing eps from previous neuroleptic pharmacotherapy , risperidone was observed to have less liability for parkinsons &# 39 ; symptoms than was the typical antipsychotic , haloperidol ( heck et al ., 2000 ). risperidone was developed following studies which showed that the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and eps were improved when ritanserin , a selective antagonist at the structurally similar 5 - ht 2 and 5 - ht 1c receptors , was combined with haloperidol ( bersani et al ., 1986 ). a synthetic benzisoxazole derivative , risperidone is a highly selective 5 - ht 2a / da 2 antagonist with high affinity for these receptors as well as for α 1 and α 2 adrenergic receptors and the h 1 histamine receptor ; low to moderate affinity is seen for the 5 - ht 2c , 5 - ht 1a , 5 - ht 1c , and 5 - ht 1d receptors ( janssen et al ., 1988 ; leysen et al ., 1988 ; leysen et al ., 1992 ). using constitutively active mutants of 5 - ht 2c receptors , which are associated with high basal levels of intracellular inositol phosphate ( ip ), risperidone was found to have inverse agonist activity at human 5 - ht 2c receptors ( herrick - davis et al ., 1999 ). a high affinity for the inverse agonist 5 - ht 2c receptor was found in the rat choroid plexus ( canton et al ., 1990 ; kuoppamaki et al ., 1995 ; schotte et al ., 1996 ). risperidone binds with weak affinity to the da 1 and haloperidol - sensitive sigma site , whereas no affinity for the cholinergic muscarinic or β 1 and β 2 adrenergic receptors has been reported ( keegan , 1994 ). optimal dosing is important for risperidone therapy as da 2 receptor affinity increases in the higher dose range , thereby increasing the risk of eps ( williams , 2001 ). therefore , the caveat exists that although risperidone is especially atypical at low doses , a more typical profile may be seen at the higher doses ( megens et al ., 1992 ). specifically , in the nacc , in [ 3h ] spiperone labeling studies , risperidone revealed biphasic inhibition curves indicating that 5 - ht 2 receptor occupancy occurs (& lt ; 0 . 04 mg / kg ) and da 2 receptor occupancy exhibits an ed 50 at ( 1 . 0 mg / kg ) ( leysen et al . 1992 ). risperidone has some other favored uses , not only in schizophrenia but also in treating the depressive aspects of schizoaffective disorders ( myers and thase , 2001 ), and in treating behavioral disturbances in children and adolescents with psychiatric dysfunction ( turgay et al ., 2002 ). behavioral locomotor and stereotypic disturbances in lesch - nyhan syndrome have been decreased by risperidone ( allen et al ., 1998 ) cocaine : cocaine increases da neurotransmission by inhibiting the da reuptake transporter at the presynapse in da nigrostriatal and mesolimbic neuronal pathways ; increased da neurotransmission is believed to occur via da reuptake inhibition , enhanced release of da or a combination of da reuptake inhibitory and enhanced release mechanisms ( de wit and wise , 1977 ; church et al ., 1987 ; ritz et al ., 1987 ; bradberry and roth , 1989 ; hurd and ungerstedt , 1989 ; kalivas and duffy , 1990 ; broderick , 1991a ; broderick , 1991b ; broderick , 1992a ; 1992b ; broderick et al ., 1993 ). increased da neurotransmission in mesolimbic and mesocorticolimbic da reward pathways ( wise and rompre , 1989 ) is thought to emanate from ventral tegmental area ( vta ) ( roberts and koob , 1982 ; goeders and smith , 1983 ; evenden and ryan , 1988 ; einhorn et al ., 1988 ; kalivas , 1993 ; broderick and phelix , 1997 ). the first studies that showed that cocaine increased 5 - ht release in nacc were performed in this laboratory ( broderick et al ., 1993 ) and in roth &# 39 ; s laboratory at yale ( bradberry et al ., 1993 ). serotonin has also been implicated in cocaine &# 39 ; s electrophysiological , transporter , behavioral and reinforcing effects ( cunningham and lakoski , 1988 ; broderick , 1991b ; broderick , 1992a ; broderick , 1992b ; carroll et al ., 1993 ; broderick et al ., 1997 ; broderick , 2001 , hall et al ., 2002 ). other neurochemical and behavioral studies support these data ( parsons et al ., 1996 ; andrews and lucki , 2001 ). the latter study reports that the effect of cocaine on 5 - ht in da somatodendritic autoreceptors was greater than that of da ( andrews and lucki , 2001 ). moreover , 5 - ht release in nacc , vta and striatum ( str ) has been shown to increase rhythmically on line and in vivo with rhythmic movement during natural exploration whereas cocaine disrupted the balance between 5 - ht release and natural exploratory rhythmic movement ( broderick , 2001 ). interactions between 5 - ht and da are becoming more important in explaining cocaine &# 39 ; s neurochemical and behavioral properties . a recent report suggests that cocaine increases da probably via postsynaptically mediated 5 - ht 2c receptor action . adjunct mechanisms include additional da release derived presynaptically from da somatodendritic autoreceptors , vta , via 5 - ht 2a and feedback compensatory mechanisms ( filip and cunningham , 2002 ). dopamine and 5 - ht interactions are plausible in the mechanism of action of cocaine because both immunohistochemical studies ( steinbusch , 1981 ) and immunocytochemical studies ( broderick and phelix , 1997 ) show that da cell bodies , vta , contain a dense network of 5 - ht axonal varicosities . neuroanatomic localization of tyrosine - hydroxylase containing ( th ) and 5 - ht - containing axons in nacc , show a prominent overlap of da and 5 - ht axons in core and shell ( phelix and broderick , 1995 ). ultrastructural evidence from light and electron microscopy has shown that 5 - ht neurons innervate da neurons synaptically ( herve et al ., 1987 ). a cellular basis is evidenced for the 5 - ht excitation of da neurons by the existence of asymmetric junctions formed by 5 - ht labeled terminals in mesolimbic projections to nacc ( van bockstaele and pickel , 1993 ; van bockstaele et al . 1994 ; broderick and phelix , 1997 ). cocaine psychosis : cocaine is a powerful reinforcer because the drug is a rewarding stimulant . cocaine has even been reported to induce an orgasmic - type experience ( cohen , 1975 ; seecof and tennant , jr ., 1986 ). cocaine &# 39 ; s rewarding and reinforcing effects are so powerful that the cocaine addict risks becoming mentally ill with a syndrome known as “ cocaine psychosis ” ( brady et al ., 1991 ). prolonged cocaine psychosis , as any psychotic event , is a major psychopathology ( satel et al ., 1991 ). in fact , emergency cases of patients diagnosed with cocaine - induced psychosis are being considered by some , as alarming ( mendoza et al ., 1992 ; taylor and staby , 1992 ; tueth , 1993 ) and clinical reports of paranoid psychosis induced by cocaine are becoming common ( sherer et al ., 1988 ; satel and edell ; 1991 ), even in the elderly ( namboudin and young , 1991 ). cocaine “ paranoia ” has been likened to schizophrenic “ paranoia ” ( rosse et al ., 1994 ). finally , data from single photon emission computerized tomography ( spect ) studies show that cocaine induced changes in cerebral blood flow are similar to those seen in patients diagnosed with schizophrenic psychosis ( miller et al ., 1992 ). interestingly , animal models of cocaine psychosis share similar neurochemical and behavioral manifestations with human schizophrenic psychosis . very early on , the animal model of psychomotor stimulant behavior was validated . psychostimulant behavior was shown to be dependent on da - ergic nigrostriatal neuronal pathways in animals ( cools and van rossum , 1970 ; costall and naylor , 1973 ; wise and bozarth , 1987 ; cf . broderick , 2001 for review ). dopamine antagonists block psychostimulant behavior ( pijnenburg et al ., 1975 ). supporting these animal data , typical antipsychotic medications , which act through da - ergic nigrostriatal neuronal pathways reduced psychotic symptoms in humans ( gawin and kleber , 1986a ; gawin and kleber , 1986b ). also supporting these animal data , atypical antipsychotic medications , which act through da - ergic mesolimbic / mesocorticolimbic neuronal pathways , reduce psychotic symptoms in humans ( meltzer , 1989 ). hence , psychostimulant - induced neurochemistry and behavior has become an accepted animal model of psychosis , albeit limited to certain aspects of the disease . risperidone / cocaine : it is noteworthy that clinical effects of risperidone on cocaine have met with some success , e . g ., on substance abusing schizophrenic patients ( tsuang et al ., 2002 ) on craving ( smelson et al ., 2002 ) on euphoric effects of cocaine ( newton et al ., 2001 ) on cocaine dependence ( grabowski et al ., 2000 ), on cue - elicited craving ( smelson et al ., 1997 ), thereby adding significance to the present data . preclinically , cocaine cueing properties ( van campenhout et al ., 1999 ) and 5 - ht 2 / da 2 antagonism of brain stimulation reward ( tsibulsky et al ., 1998 ), have also been elegantly reported , but to date , to the authors &# 39 ; knowledge , this is the first paper to present the effects of risperidone in the psychostimulant animal model of psychosis . this cutting edge technology , in vivo microvoltammetry with miniature carbon sensors , broderick probes ® ( broderick , 1999 ) is particularly suitable for studies of neurochemistry because the technology provides excellent spatial and temporal resolution as well as selectivity for separate neurotransmitters . the technology allows a high degree of accuracy because it allows direct electrochemical detection of neurotransmitters within a specific neuroanatomic site . also , since few electrical connections are used for direct in vivo detection of neurotransmitters , it avoids bulky inflow and outflow perfusate tubings , apparently required for other methods . too , subacute ( 24 hr follow - up ) studies allow withdrawal symptoms and possible reversal of withdrawal symptoms to be studied in the same animal reliably and accurately as glial formation around the microelectrodes is virtually non - existent . risperidone was obtained from sigma / aldrich , st . louis , mo ., dissolved in distilled water and ph was subsequently adjusted to 6 . 0 with lactic acid powder . risperidone was then injected s . c . at a dose of 2 . 0 mg / kg according to the literature ( hertel et al ., 1996 ; hertel et al ., 1998 ; ichikawa et al ., 1998 ; ichikawa and meltzer , 2000 )). the doses of risperidone in the literature focussing on animals , shows that a low dose of 0 . 1 / 0 . 2 mg / kg or a high dose of 1 . 0 / 2 . 0 mg / kg s . c . are both valid selections . although it is difficult to extrapolate doses from human to animal , it is believed that a 6 - 8 mg / day dose in humans may be equivalent to the 1 . 0 / 2 . 0 mg / kg dose in animals . results of clinical trials have shown that 6 - 8 mg / day ( orally ) of risperidone were effective for most patients for treating psychotic symptoms without risking induction of eps and this dose range was the recommended optimal daily dose ( marder and meibach , 1994 ). recently , though , on the basis of further clinical trials , even lower doses are now recommended , 4 mg / day ( orally ) ( williams , 2001 ). at high dose risperidone , da 2 receptor occupancy increases to 70 %, while 5 - ht 2 occupancy is maintained ( 90 %) ( meltzer et al ., 1992 ; leysen et al ., 1993 ; schotte et al ., 1993 ; sumiyoshi et al ., 1994 ; svartengren and calender , 1994 ; sumiyoshi et al ., 1995 ). therefore , the rationale for selecting high dose risperidone in the present studies was based on the hypothesis that a greater da 2 occupancy would have more potent da 2 antagonist effects , postsynaptically and that fact , coupled with less da released presynaptically , would be more efficacious in blocking cocaine - induced da - ergic psychomotor stimulant effects . cocaine was obtained from sigma aldrich , st . louis , mo . and dissolved in distilled water . cocaine was then injected i . p . at a dose of 10 mg / kg which is seen as a moderate dose and yet , one which will produce the psychostimulant effects of cocaine ( broderick et al ., 1993 ; van campenhout et al ., 1999 ; filip and cunningham , 2002 ). animals were purchased from charles river laboratories , kingston , n . y . and were housed in our animal care facilities for two weeks before surgery was performed . the animal care facility operates under the auspices of the cuny , city college institutional animal care and use committee ( iacuc ) in compliance with national institute of health ( nih ) guidelines . the weight range for the animals , at the time of the studies , was 350 - 475 g . animals were group housed before surgery , individually housed after surgery and fed purina rat chow and water ad libitum . a twelve hr dark - light cycle was maintained both in the housing of the animals and throughout the experimental studies . each animal was anesthetized with pentobarbital na , ( 50 mg / kg i . p . ( dilute ( 6 %) solution )) and stereotaxically implanted ( kopf stereotaxic , tujunga , calif .) with a broderick probe ® lauric acid indicator microelectrode in ventrolateral ( vl ) nacc ( ap =+ 2 . 6 , ml =+ 2 . 5 , dv =− 7 . 3 ) ( pellegrino et al ., 1979 ). a ag / agcl reference electrode was placed in contact with dura , 7 mm anteriorally and contralaterally to the indicator microelectrode . a stainless steel auxiliary microelectrode , was placed in contact with dura . animals &# 39 ; body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal probe and thermometer ( fisher sci ., fadem , n . j .). body temperature was maintained at 37 . 5 ° c .± 0 . 5 ° c . with an aquamatic k module heating pad ( amer . hosp . supply , edison , n . j .). booster injections of pentobarbital na were administered once after the first two hrs of surgery ( 0 . 10 cc ) and once every subsequent hr ( 0 . 05 cc ) to maintain an adequate level of anesthesia throughout surgery . the total time for surgery was three to four hrs . the indicator , reference , and auxiliary microelectrodes were held in place with dental acrylic ( jet line , lang dental inc ., ca ). animals recovered in a bedded plexiglas cage ( dimensions : 12 inches ( width ), 12 inches ( depth ), 18 inches ( height )) after surgery and before the experimental studies began , with food and water ad libitum . the animals were treated with physiological saline ( 0 . 5 cc ) immediately and for one to two days after surgery as needed . in vivo microvoltammetric studies on conscious sprague - dawley laboratory rats were begun nine to fifteen days after the aseptic surgical operations were performed . on each experimental day , animals were placed in a plexiglas - copper faradaic chamber . the three - microelectrode assembly , enclosed within the animal &# 39 ; s prosthetic acrylic cap , was connected to a cv37 detector by means of a mercury commutator ( br . res . instr ., princeton , n . j . ), a flexible cable , and a mating connector ( bjm electronics , staten island , n . y .). the cv37 detector was electrically connected to a minigard surge suppresser ( jefferson electric , magnetek , n . y .) which was then connected to an electrical ground in isolation . stable electrochemical signals for da and 5 - ht were evident before either ( i ) risperidone ( 2 mg / kg s . c . ), ( ii ) cocaine ( 10 mg / kg i . p .) or ( iii ) the combination of risperidone and cocaine ( 2 mg / kg s . c . and 10 mg / kg i . p . respectively ) were administered . each animal was used as its own control . in vivo microvoltammetric scans were recorded in sec and repeated every five min for a period of 2 hrs before each treatment and a period of two hrs after each treatment . behaviors were monitored with infrared photobeams which surrounded the faradaic chamber . open - field behaviors of locomotion ( ambulations ) and stereotypy ( fine movements of sniffing and grooming ) were recorded in sec and repeated every five min for a period of 2 hrs before each treatment and a period of 2 hrs after each treatment . open - field behaviors were monitored simultaneously with in vivo microvoltammetric recordings of monoamines . the first hr pre - drug , allowed exploratory behavior . exploratory behavior is defined as open - field behavior of ambulations ( forward locomotion ) and stereotypy ( fine movements of sniffing and grooming ), wherein animals respond to the stimuli of a novel environment with a high frequency of behavioral counts . the second hr pre - drug allowed the animal to become habituated before treatment . habituation behavior is defined as a behavioral state in which neurochemistry and behavior exhibit reduced responses to novel stimuli ; animals cease exploring or searching in their novel environment and maintain a steady - state response to novel stimuli . in the acute studies , each drug was administered thirty min into habituation . for the subacute studies , twenty four hrs later , the animals were again placed in the faradaic behavioral chamber and no further drug was administered . each animal was monitored for possible recovery , withdrawal or after - effects . of each treatment while open - field behaviors of locomotions and stereotypy were monitored with computerized infrared photocell beams which surround the faradaic chamber . the faradaic chamber was made of plexiglas and covered with copper wire to refract possible electrical artifacts ( dimensions : 24 inch ( width ) by 18 inch ( depth ) by 23 . 5 inch ( height )). a 16 by 16 array of infrared photobeams , held in place by an aluminum frame , was situated ¾ inch above the plexiglas floor of the chamber to detect locomotor and stereotypic movements . photobeams were sampled by a pentium computer to define the x - y position of the animal within a 1 . 5 inch resolution every 100 msec . when an x - y position was calculated , it was used to define a particular behavioral parameter . this system is a modified version of an activity pattern monitor ( apm ) ( san diego instruments , san diego , calif .). behavioral data is presented in terms of frequency of events . in the present studies , in vivo microvoltammetry with a semidifferential circuit was used ; a clear separation of the biogenic amine neurotransmitters , da and 5 - ht was achieved . dopamine and 5 - ht were detected within sec , in separate signals and in vivo . oxidation peak potentials of + 0 . 14 ± 0 . 015v and + 0 . 29 ± 0 . 015v were characteristic for da and 5 - ht . detailed methodology is published ( broderick , 1988 ; broderick , 1989 ; broderick , 1990 ; broderick , 1991b ; broderick et al ., 1993 ; broderick , 1999 ; broderick et al ., 2000 ; broderick , 2001 ; broderick , 2002 ). the electrochemical signal for da , was detected without interference at the same oxidation potential , from 3 - 4 - dihydroxyphenylacetic acid ( dopac ), homovanillic acid ( hva ) and ascorbic acid ( aa ). indeed , clear and separated signals are achieved with the broderick probe ® lauric acid microelectrode , for aa , hva and dopac ; moreover , these clear and separated signals for aa , hva and dopac are achieved with the broderick probe ® stearic acid microelectrode as well . the electrochemical signal for 5 - ht was detected without interference at the same oxidation potential , from the 5 - ht metabolite , 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid ( 5 - hiaa ) and uric acid ( ua ). potentials were applied with a cv37 detector ( bas , west lafayette , ind .). potentials were applied from − 0 . 2v to + 0 . 7v with respect to a ag / agcl ( 1m nacl ) electrode , at a scan rate of 10 mv / sec at time constants of 5 and 1 tau . one scan was completed in 60 sec . non - faradaic charging current was eliminated in the first 25 sec . the neurotransmitters , da and 5 - ht , were detected in approximately 10 - 15 sec . and 10 - 12 sec ., respectively , in a sequential manner during each recording . the coulombic efficiency for the detection of 5 - ht was two to three fold greater than that for da ( broderick , 1987 ). pre - and post - calibration curves were determined experimentally , in vitro , in a freshly prepared deoxygenated physiological saline - phosphate buffer solution , ( 0 . 01 m , ph = 7 . 4 containing da ( 99 % purity , sigma , st . louis , mo .) and 5 - ht ( 99 % purity , aldrich , milwaukee , wis . ), as well as metabolites of the monoamines ( broderick , 1989 ; broderick et al ., 2000 ). in vitro pre - and post - calibration of the indicator broderick probe ® were also studied in freshly prepared deoxygenated phosphotidylethanolamine ( pea )/ bovine serum albumin ( bsa ) ( sigma aldrich , st . louis , mo .) physiological saline - phosphate buffer which closely mimics brain constituents . these studies show that lipid constituents of brain amplify the detection sensitivity of the indicator microelectrodes , supporting previous data which show that lipids amplify electrochemical signals detected by broderick probes ®; the phenomenon is termed the lipid amplification number ( lan ) ( broderick , 1999 ; broderick et al ., 2000 ). surface enhanced raman spectroscopy ( sers ) and raman resonance ( rr ) techniques have correlated our findings on signal amplification by lipids ( foucault et al ., 2002 ). detection limits for basal synaptic concentrations of da and 5 - ht in nacc were 12 nm and 2 nm respectively . placement of indicator microelectrodes in nacc of each animal , was confirmed by the potassium ferrocyamide blue dot method , using a current of 50 ma for period of 40 sec . virtually no damage to brain tissue occurred . recording characteristics of microelectrodes were stable . neurochemical and behavioral data , derived from the last thirty minutes of the habituation period , provided the baseline data . statistically significant differences between baseline and post - injection for ( 1 ) da ( 2 ) 5 - ht , ( 3 ) locomotor and ( 4 ) stereotypic behavior were determined by subjecting the data to one way analysis of variance ( anova ) ( tested at p = 0 . 05 as criteria ), with subsequent application of the post hoc test , tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test . where appropriate , data points in the time course were subjected to 95 % confidence limits ( c . l .). day 1 : acute studies : fig4 a : effects of risperidone , cocaine or risperidone / cocaine combination on da release in nacc : risperidone : ( open squares ) risperidone significantly increased da release in nacc over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 12 . 35 ; df = 5 . 84 ). post hoc analysis further showed that there were statistically significant differences between pre - risperidone ( baseline ) and post - risperidone ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 7 . 454 ) cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased da release over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 12 . 35 ; df = 5 . 84 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 01 , q = 5 . 649 ). risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) the risperidone / cocaine group exhibited a biphasic response on da release in nacc . therefore , statistical analysis was extended in this group to perform analysis on an hr by hr basis . in the first hour , when da release in nacc was compared to baseline ( habituation ) values , a significant blockade of cocaine - induced da release was observed since da release was not different from baseline ( post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 7423 ). moreover , there was a significant difference between the results in the cocaine group versus the risperidone / cocaine group in the first hr which emphasizes the significant blockade of cocaine - induced da release by risperidone ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 36 . 31 ; df = 8 . 81 ); post hoc analysis further emphasizes this effect ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 01 , q = 6 . 085 ). in the second part of the biphasic response , da release was increased above baseline to a statistically significant degree ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 36 . 31 ; df = 8 . 81 ). post hoc analysis showed significance also ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 9 . 650 ). interestingly , then , in the second part of the biphasic response , since risperidone did not completely block cocaine - induced da release , the risperidone / cocaine group did not significantly differ from the cocaine group as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 1 . 964 ). day 1 : acute studies : fig4 b : effects of risperidone , cocaine and risperidone / cocaine combination on 5 - ht release in nacc : risperidone : ( open squares ) risperidone significantly increased 5 - ht release in nacc over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 69 . 36 ; df = 5 . 84 ). post hoc analysis further showed that there were statistically significant differences between pre - risperidone ( baseline ) and post - risperidone ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 12 . 87 ) cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased 5 - ht release over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 69 . 36 ; df = 5 . 84 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( turkey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 11 . 59 ). risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) the risperidone / cocaine group exhibited a monophasic and statistically insignificant response on 5 - ht release in nacc as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 1232 ). thus , risperidone blocked cocaine - induced 5 - ht release over the entire 2 hr period of study . a comparison of post hoc analysis of risperidone / cocaine effects versus cocaine effects on 5 - ht release emphasizes the blockade of cocaine - induced 5 - ht release ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 18 . 13 ). day 1 : acute studies : fig4 c : effects of risperidone , cocaine and risperidone / cocaine combination on locomotion ( ambulations ):: risperidone : ( open squares ) risperidone did not affect locomotor activity over baseline ( habituation ) values . post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between pre - risperidone ( baseline ) and post - risperidone ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 4743 ) cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased locomotor activity ( ambulations ) over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 21 . 06 ; df = 5 . 84 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 7 . 802 ). risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) the risperidone / cocaine group exhibited a statistically insignificant response on locomotor activity as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 4704 ). thus , risperidone blocked cocaine - induced psychostimulant activity over the entire 2 hr period of study . a comparison of post hoc analysis of risperidone / cocaine effects versus cocaine effects on 5 - ht release emphasizes the blockade of cocaine - induced locomotor activity ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 11 . 30 ). day 1 : acute studies : fig4 d : effects of risperidone , cocaine or risperidone / cocaine combination on stereotype ( fine movements of sniffing and grooming ): risperidone : ( open squares ) risperidone did not affect stereotypy over baseline ( habituation ) values . post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between pre - risperidone ( baseline ) and post - risperidone data ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 1 . 963 ). cocaine : ( open circles ) cocaine significantly increased stereotypic behaviors of grooming and sniffing over baseline ( habituation ) values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 101 . 7 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences between pre - cocaine ( baseline ) and post - cocaine ( same animal control ) occurred as well ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 16 . 29 ). risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) the risperidone / cocaine group exhibited a statistically insignificant response on stereotypy as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 1 . 813 ). thus , risperidone blocked cocaine - induced psychostimulant stereotypic activity over the entire 2 hr period of study . a comparison of post hoc analysis of risperidone / cocaine effects versus cocaine effects on stereotypy emphasizes the blockade of cocaine - induced stereotypy activity ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 22 . 48 ). day 2 : subacute studies : fig5 a : effects of risperidone , cocaine or risperidone / cocaine combination on da release in nacc : risperidone : ( open squares ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone was administered , da release in nacc returned to baseline ( habituation ) values ( from a significant increase ); thus , there was no significant difference between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ), as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 2 . 797 ). cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further cocaine was administered , da release in nacc significantly decreased from baseline ( habituation ) values ( from a significant increase ) ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 24 . 65 ; df = 5 . 45 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 10 . 85 ). risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone / cocaine combination was administered , da release in nacc returned to baseline ( habituation ) values ( from a biphasic response ); there was no significant difference between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day2 ) values ( same animal control ), as shown by post hoc analysis ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 3592 ). there were significant differences in da concentrations in nacc between the risperidone / cocaine group on day2 as compared with the cocaine group on day2 ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 24 . 65 ; df = 5 . 45 ). post hoc analysis further emphasize the ability of risperidone to block cocaine effects , even subchronically during timing that corresponds to cocaine withdrawal ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 13 . 34 ). day 2 : subacute studies : fig5 b : effects of risperidone , cocaine and risperidone / cocaine combination on 5 - ht release in nacc : risperidone : ( open squares ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone was administered , 5 - ht release in nacc significantly increased above day1 baseline values ( one way anova ; p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ; f = 32 . 26 ; df = 5 . 45 ). post hoc analysis showed that significant differences occurred between baseline ( day1 ) and ( day 2 ) values ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 12 . 91 ). compared to drug effect of risperidone on day 1 , the significant increase in 5 - ht release was maintained and increased further by an approximate average of 25 %. cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further cocaine was administered , 5 - ht release in nacc was decreased below day1 baseline values at specific time points during the time course of the 1 hr study , i . e ., at the 15 , 20 , 50 , 55 min time points , although the post hoc analysis did not show statistical significance ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 11 . 118 ). compared to drug effect on day1 , 5 - ht release was decreased dramatically by about 75 %. risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone / cocaine treatment was administered , 5 - ht release in nacc exhibited exactly the same profile as was seen on day1 , i . e ., on day1 and on day2 , 5 - ht release did not exhibit a statistically significant change from baseline . thus , post hoc analysis shows no difference between 5 - ht release between day1 and day2 data ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 4579 ). no significant differences occurred between risperidone / cocaine and cocaine groups ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 1 . 20 ). a significant difference in 5 - ht release between risperidone / cocaine and risperidone groups occurred ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : ( p & lt ; 0 . 001 , q = 11 . 31 ) day 2 : subacute studies : fig5 c : effects of risperidone . cocaine and risperidone / cocaine combination on locomotion ( ambulations ):: one - way anova for all groups tested , showed a significance of d & lt ; 0 . 05 ; f = 2 . 377 : df = 5 . 48 . risperidone : ( open squares ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone was administered , and day 1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day 2 values , risperidone did not affect locomotion to a statistically significant degree . post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 2 . 271 ). nonetheless , compared with drug treatment , day1 , locomotor activity was increased from a frequency of 50 to about 200 counts . cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further cocaine was administered , and day1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day2 values , post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 2 . 2949 ). interestingly , compared with drug treatment , day1 , locomotor activity was decreased by a frequency of about 200 counts . risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone / cocaine were administered , and day1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day2 values , locomotion was not affected to a statistically significant degree . post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 2 . 869 ). again , interestingly , compared with drug treatment , day1 , locomotor activity was increased by a frequency of about 200 counts . no significant difference in locomotion occurred between risperidone / cocaine and cocaine groups occurred ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 05135 ). day 2 : subacute studies : fig5 d : effects of risperidone , cocaine or risperidone / cocaine combination on stereotypy ( fine movements of sniffing and grooming ). : one - way anova for all groups tested , showed a significance of p & lt ; 0 . 01 ; f = 3 . 09 ; df = 5 . 48 . risperidone : ( open squares ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone was administered , and day1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day2 values , risperidone increased stereotypy to a statistically significant degree ( one - way anova : p & lt ; 0 . 01 ; f = 3 . 09 ; df = 5 . 48 ). post hoc analysis further showed that there were statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & lt ; 0 . 05 , q = 4 . 622 ). compared with drug treatment , day 1 , stereotypy was increased from a maximum frequency of 12 to a maximum frequency of about 50 counts . cocaine : ( open circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further cocaine was administered , and day 1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day 2 values , post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 1 . 947 ). interestingly , compared with drug treatment , day1 , stereotypy was decreased by a frequency of about 20 counts from 60 - 40 counts . risperidone / cocaine : ( closed circles ) during the subchronic studies , when no further risperidone / cocaine were administered , and day1 baseline ( habituation ) values were compared with day2 values , stereotypy was not affected to a statistically significant degree . post hoc analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between groups ( same animal control ) ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 2 . 327 ). again , interestingly , compared with drug treatment , day1 stereotypy was increased from a frequency of 12 to about 30 counts . a significant difference between risperidone / cocaine and cocaine groups did not occur ( tukey &# 39 ; s multiple comparison test : p & gt ; 0 . 05 , q = 0 . 6102 ). the anatomy of schizophrenia : although the precise biological basis of schizophrenia remains to be fully elucidated , several repetitive observations have reliably evolved into a theory of psychosis called , “ the mesolimbic da hypothesis of positive psychotic symptoms ”. it is thought that excessive activity in this neuronal pathway , which projects from the somatodendritic da cell bodies in the vta to axon terminals in the limbic area of the forebrain , nacc , mediates the positive symptoms of psychosis . simply stated , the psychostimulant , cocaine , is thought to induce positive symptoms of psychosis by increasing da activity to an excessive degree in mesolimbic terminals , nacc ( stahl , 2000 ). it is important to note that 5 - ht modulates da in the mesolimbic circuit and there are significant concentrations of 5 - ht 1b , 5 - ht 2a , 5 - ht 2c and 5 - ht 3 receptors present in nacc ( leysen et al ., 1996 ). on the other hand , the da mesocortical pathway originates in da somatodendrites , vta also , but this projects to prefrontal cortex ( pfc ) nerve terminals . this mesocortical substrate is thought to play a major role in the negative symptoms of psychosis similar to defects seen after frontal lobectomy . weinberger et al . ( 1992 ) showed that a reduction in pfc da - ergic activity leads to disinhibition and overactivity of da - ergic function in mesolimbic circuitry ( weinberger et al ., 1992 ). moreover , 5 - ht modulates da in pfc as well , even to a greater degree than occurs in nacc ( meltzer , 1999 ) and significant concentrations of 5 - ht 1a , 5 - ht 1b , 5 - ht 2a , 5 - ht 3 and 5 - ht 7 receptors are present in pfc ( leysen et al ., 1996 ). this research presents a focus on positive symptoms of psychosis since nacc is the substrate of interest . acute studies : results were as expected . consistent with risperidone studies from other laboratories wherein microdialysis was used , risperidone significantly increased da concentrations in nacc . ( volonte et al ., 1997 ; kuroki et al ., 1999 ). the latter study reported the mechanism of action of increased efflux of da in nacc to derive from a combination of 5 - ht 2a / da 2 effects plus a weak dad 2 / 3 affinity relative to 5 - ht 2a but the mechanism was not thought to be directly due to a 5 - ht 2a mediation of da release ( kuroki et al ., 1999 ). interestingly , a dad 2 / 3 affinity may be explanatory . (+)- aj 76 [ cis -(+)- 1s , 2r - 5 methoxy - 1 methyl - 2 -( n - propylamino )- tetralin hcl ] is a da autoreceptor antagonist with a slightly higher affinity for the da 3 rather than the da 2 receptor ( sokoloff et al ., 1990 ) and this laboratory and others have found that aj 76 , unlike other typical antipsychotic agents , has weak stimulant properties as opposed to sedative properties ( waters et al , 1993 ; broderick and piercey , 1998b ). also consistent with the present results , is another report which showed , using microdialysis , that risperidone increased release of da in nacc ( ichikawa and meltzer , 2000 ). in this last report , the data suggested that a 5 - ht 1a receptor mediation was not involved in the mechanism of action of increased da release after high dose risperidone , as these increases were not antagonized by the 5 - ht 1a receptor agonist , ( 8 - oh - dpat ) [ r (+)- 8 - hydroxy - 2 -( di - n - propylamino )- tetralin ]. although risperidone does not bind with high affinity to 5 - ht 1a receptors , interestingly , low dose risperidone did show a 5 - ht 1a mediation in the mechanism of action of increased da release by risperidone ( ichikawa and meltzer , 2000 ). furthermore , inverse agonist activity at the 5 - ht 2c receptor , may play a role in risperidone induced increases da release in nacc as risperidone completely prevented the inhibitory action of ro 60 - 0175 , a 5 - ht 2c receptor agonist , on da efflux in nacc ( di matteo et al ., 2002 ). therefore , the increase in da release in nacc after risperidone as reported by this laboratory , may come in part from somatodendritic presynaptic antagonism of da and / or 5 - ht autoreceptors , and in part from postsynaptic 5 - ht 2c modulation of da . taken together with ichikawa and meltzer ( 2000 ), a 5 - ht 1a mediation may not be likely since our risperidone dose could be considered a high dose . a da 3 autoreceptor antagonism should not be ruled out as the mesolimbic neuronal circuitry has a high concentration of da 3 receptors ( sokoloff et al ., 1990 ). results were as expected and consistent with previous studies of risperidone on 5 - ht release in nacc . thus , the present data are in agreement with others ( ichikawa et al ., 1998 ) who reported , using microdialysis , an increased 5 - ht efflux from nacc albeit statistically insignificant . the latter report discusses the mechanism of increased 5 - ht efflux after risperidone , as related to 5 - ht reuptake inhibition and not directly due to a 5 - ht 2a receptor mediation of 5 - ht - induced increases within the da terminals in nacc , although the authors state that an interaction with da 2 receptor mediation is possible ( ichikawa et al ., 1998 ). too , in another report , risperidone was studied , not for its effects on 5 - ht , the neurotransmitter , in nacc but for risperidone &# 39 ; s effects on the metabolite of 5 - ht , i . e ., 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid ( 5 - hiaa ). both low and high dose risperidone ( 0 . 2 mg / kg s . c . and 2 . 0 mg / kg s . c .) were studied with similar results . the results were interesting in that the increase in 5 - hiaa concentrations , up to 20 % above baseline , were time - dependent ( hertel et al ., 1996 ). the results of the present studies showed that the increase in 5 - ht release in nacc after risperidone , also increased during the time course , up to about 60 %. these data are interesting in that there may be an implication of decreased 5 - ht turnover after risperidone . the present results are also in agreement with another report which showed that risperidone at a dose range of 25 - 400 ug / kg i . v ., increased 5 - ht efflux locally in 5 - ht somatodendrites , consequent to decreased activation of 5 - ht 1a autoreceptor mediated cell firing in 5 - ht somatodendrites ( dorsal raphe ( dr )) ( hertel et al ., 1997b ). this latter report suggests that the availability of 5 - ht in somatodendrites provides a plausible mechanism for increased 5 - ht release after risperidone since the 5 - ht depletor , parachlorophenylalanine ( pcpa ) also depresses 5 - ht 1a firing in dr somatodendrites ( hertel et al ., 1997b ; hertel et al ., 1998 ). in addition , other nerve terminals in the da - ergic mesocorticolimbic neuronal circuitry , pfc , exhibited increased 5 - ht concentrations after risperidone administrations ( hertel et al ., 1997a ; ichikawa et al ., 1998 ; hertel et al ., 1999 ). finally , since direct receptor acting 5 - ht 2a / c autoreceptor agonists , such as doi [(+/−)- 2 , 5 - dimethoxy - 4 - iodoamphetamine hydrochloride ], decrease 5 - ht release in pfc ( wright et al ., 1990 ) and direct receptor acting 5 - ht 2ac receptor antagonists increase 5 - ht release in nacc ( devaud et al ., 1992 ), another plausible mechanism of a 5 - ht - ergic increase in nacc is 5 - ht 2a / c mediation of 5 - ht release by direct acting autoreceptor antagonist action in da mesolimbic neuronal circuitry . risperidone behavior : it is believed that this is the first report on the behavioral effects of risperidone preclinically ; thus , we are without comparison in this area . however , we found that the open - field behaviors of locomotion and stereotypy were affected insignificantly by risperidone although there was an increase in frequency of counts over baseline in the first hr . subacute studies : during the 24 hr follow - up studies , when no further drug was administered , risperidone produced a significant increase in 5 - ht release in nacc . this is an exciting finding as increased 5 - ht release in the da - ergic mesolimbic pathway could be beneficial for treatment of schizoaffective disorders , which includes depressive components . the increase in 5 - ht , which appears to be specific to 5 - ht , may be explained by 5 - ht 1a autoreceptor inhibition presynaptically since risperidone is still present due to the prolonged half - life of risperidone &# 39 ; s metabolite , 9 - hydroxyrisperidone ( mannens et al ., 1993 ). dopamine and locomotion returned to baseline but stereotypy , an a 9 behavior ( kelly et al ., 1975 ), increased above baseline . acute studies : cocaine exhibits a high affinity for da , 5 - ht and ne transporters and via these transporters , reuptake of monoamines into presynaptic nerve terminals is inhibited ( koe , 1976 ); interestingly , certain subjective reward and jittery effects from cocaine have recently been associated with these monoamine transporters ( hall et al ., 2002 ). too , the mechanism of action of cocaine has been shown to be dependent on stimulated release mechanisms ( ng et al ., 1991 ) and on basal release mechanism using the da impulse flow inhibitor , γbl ( broderick , 1991b ). nonetheless , although cocaine is a da reuptake inhibitor and not a direct receptor acting agonist , enhancement of da neurotransmission may also be provided adjunctly through indirect activation of da receptors , i . e ., d 1 and d 2 ( spealman et al ., 1992 ; wise , 1995 ). therefore , as expected and consistent with previous data from this laboratory and others , cocaine produced significant increases in synaptic da concentrations in nacc ( de wit and wise , 1977 ; church et al ., 1987 ; ritz et al ., 1987 ; bradberry and roth , 1989 ; hurd and ungerstedt , 1989 ; kalivas and duffy , 1990 ; broderick , 1991a , b ; broderick , 1992a , b ; broderick et al ., 1993 , broderick and piercey , 1998b ). it is well accepted that the da mesolimbic neuronal pathway , from vta to nacc is critical for the action of cocaine as intra - nacc administration of cocaine into this area mimics among other cocaine behaviors , reinforcing effects ( mckinzie et al ., 1999 ), discriminative stimuli ( callahan et al ., 1994 ) and consistent with the present data , the hyperlocomotive effects of systemic cocaine ( delfs et al ., 1990 ). attenuation of psychostimulant behaviors is generally thought to be via da 2 receptors postsynaptically . consistent with previous data from this laboratory and others , cocaine produced its expected increases in synaptic concentrations of 5 - ht in nacc ( broderick , 1992a ; broderick , 1992b ; broderick et al . 1993 ; bradberry et al . 1993 ; essman et al ., 1994 ; parsons et al ., 1996 ; tenaud et al ., 1996 ; broderick et al ., 1997 ; reith et al ., 1997 ; broderick , 2001 ; andrews and lucki , 2001 ), in concert with locomotor and stereotypic behavior ( broderick , 2001 ). the data are in agreement with others in that 5 - ht - ergic agonist manipulations , such as 8 - oh - dpat , have been shown to upmodulate cocaine - induced psychostimulant behavior ( de la garza and cunningham , 2000 ). in other types of 5 - ht manipulations such as the animal model of 5 - ht deficiency , i . e ., the fawn - hooded rat , cocaine - induced increases in 5 - ht release were attenuated ( hope et al ., 1995 ). finally , blockade of cocaine - induced hyperactivity has been attributed to postsynaptic antagonism of several 5 - ht receptor subtypes , i . e ., a 5 - ht 4 , 5 - ht 2a and 5 - ht 2c receptor mediation in nacc ( mcmahon and cunningham , 1999 ; mcmahon and cunningham , 2001 ; filip and cunningham , 2002 ). consensus on the mechanism of action of cocaine on da and 5 - ht release in nacc with concomitant psychostimulant behavior implicates a postsynaptic 5 - ht - ergic modulation of da in the da - ergic mesolimbic circuit . cocaine sensitization mechanisms show that 5 - ht 2a receptors mediate da release in nacc ( yan et al ., 2000 ). but further teasing apart of the 5 - ht 2a versus 5 - ht 2c receptor activation came from studies with the selective 5 - ht 2a antagonist , 463499b , versus the selective 5 - ht 2c antagonist , rs 102221 . the studies showed that the 5 - ht 2a antagonist , ( lucas and spampinato , 2000 ) did not block ( doi ) increases in da release but the 5 - ht 2c antagonist did so ( mcmahon et al ., 2001 ). thus , perhaps , increased da release by cocaine as well as its closely correlated psychostimulant behavior , may be a postsynaptically mediated phenomenon by 5 - ht 2c receptors with additional da release derived presynaptically from da somatodendritic 5 - ht 2a autoreceptors activation in vta with consequent feedback compensation ( filip and cunningham , 2002 ). subacute studies : during the 24 hr follow - up studies , when no further drug was administered , the cocaine group showed an overall significant decrease in da release in nacc and significant decreases in 5 - ht release during specific points in the time course data . these data are in agreement with others ( parsons et al . 1995 ; parsons et al . 1996 ; broderick et al ., 1997 ). since the behavioral activity increased at the same time that accumbens da and 5 - ht release were decreased , these subacute withdrawal data show that dissociative function between behavior mediated postsynaptically versus what is likely a monoamine deficiency presynaptically perhaps via autoreceptors . thus , the data may help elucidate pharmacotherapeutic strategies which may provide beneficial responses on the neurochemical level without affecting already beneficial responses on the behavioral level , such as those seen here . the present data are consistent with patient reports of withdrawal symptoms including craving , which from the clinical perspective , has been associated with reduction in da neurotransmission ( blum et al ., 1989 ). craving is such an important issue to address because craving for cocaine can reemerge , even months or years after the last episode of cocaine use ; in fact , cocaine craving can occur in association with affective ( mood ) states either positive or negative symptomotologies , geographic locations , specific persons or events , intoxication with other substances or in the presence of various objects directly or indirectly connected with cocaine use ( dackis and gold , 1985 ; gawin and kleber , 1986b ; blum et al ., 1989 ). therefore , the clinical data suggest that cocaine - induced neuroadaptation occurs ; cocaine - induced neuroadaptation has been reported preclinically ( koob and nestler , 1997 , broderick , 2001 ). it is of particular importance to show neuroadaptation by cocaine because , unlike amphetamine , neurodegeneration and neurotoxicity is difficult to prove empirically ( ryan et al ., 1988 ; seiden and kleven , 1988 ). since 5 - ht release is also decreased below baseline , the data also suggest a biochemical basis for clinical depression observed in cocaine addicts during withdrawal ( price et al ., 2001 ). it is not likely that active metabolites that play a role in decreased da and 5 - ht release in nacc during withdrawal from the single injection of cocaine . although there are active cocaine metabolites e . g ., norcocaine and benzoylecgonine in rat brain ( misra et al ., 1974a ; nayak et al ., 1976 ) the pharmacokinetic half - lives of these metabolites are short - lived . indeed , the pharmacokinetic half - life of cocaine is short - lived ( nayak et al ., 1976 ). the elimination half - lives of cocaine and norcocaine after bolus injections ( e . g ., 14 . 7 umol / kg ) are similar ( 28 - 33 min ) and for benzoylecgonine was 40 - 44 min ( mets et al ., 1999 ). in addition , even benzoyl methyester exhibited a half - life of 60 - 71 min . ( mets et al ., 1999 ). after i . v . and p . o . cocaine , ( 20 - 40 mg / kg ), norcocaine was not detected at all in brain after i . v . cocaine but serum levels were as high as those of oral cocaine ( sun and lau , 2001 ). in a landmark paper , ( nayak et al ., 1976 ) i . v . cocaine was reported to have a half - life of 0 . 5 hr , and for s . c . that of 4 hrs , whereas that of i . p . cocaine can be extrapolated to approximately 2 hrs . since the withdrawal subchronic studies took place approximately 24 hr after drug , it is reasonable to assume that virtually neither cocaine nor its principal active metabolites could play a role in the decreased effect seen in the monoamines . however , one may speculate that toxic metabolites , norcocaine nitroxide from norcocaine is a possibility ( kloss et al ., 1984 ); since behavior recovered though , this does not seem likely . finally , neuroadaptation as a prelude to neurodegeneration might lend an explanatory note ( koob and nestler , 1997 ; broderick , 2001 ). acute studies : the present studies are the first to report the effects of the atypical antipsychotic medication , risperidone , on accumbens da and 5 - ht release and simultaneous psychostimulant behavior induced by cocaine . therefore , we have no comparative data in this area . nonetheless , our results showed that risperidone significantly antagonized cocaine - induced enhancement in da release albeit only during the first hr . cocaine - induced enhancement of 5 - ht release was blocked during both hrs of study , while at the same time , risperidone antagonized the psychomotor stimulant behaviors of locomotion and stereotypy produced by cocaine . curious are the data gleaned during the second hr of the combination risperidone / cocaine study . dopamine release induced by cocaine , was not completely blocked in the second hr of study , but blockade of 5 - ht release and psychomotor stimulant behaviors of locomotion and stereotypy was maintained during the 2 hr period of study . at first glance , perhaps the pharmacokinetics of risperidone and / or cocaine may provide a rational explanation ? in humans , the half - life of risperidone is 3 hrs for fast metabolizers and 20 hrs for slow metabolizers . although we do not know the rate of metabolism for risperidone in the laboratory rat , we do know that the 9 - hydroxyrisperidone metabolite is active for 22 hrs and this metabolite is active and independent of the rate of metabolism ( janssen et al ., 1988 ; keegan et al ., 1994 ). conversely , the half - life for cocaine is about 2 hrs after i . p . injection and metabolites &# 39 ; half - life is less than 1 hr ( nayak et al . 1976 ; mets et al ., 1999 ; sun and lau , 2001 ). therefore , pharmacokinetic data from both risperidone and cocaine in acute studies , show that both drugs are in the induction phase and these data do not lend an explanatory note to this phenomenon of incomplete blockade of cocaine - induced da release by risperidone . apparently specific to the da response , one may postulate that risperidone ceased to block cocaine - enhanced release by triggering presynaptic autoreceptor action at da or 5 - ht somatodendrites . whether or not , this is due to changing 5 - ht - ergic modulation of da by high dose risperidone due to differential 5 - ht 2a / da 2 receptor occupancy at this dose or in this neuroanatomic region , it is premature to say . since a high dose risperidone maintains a nearly maximal 5 - ht 2a receptor occupancy ( 90 %) but increases occupancy of da 2 receptors to 70 % ( leysen et al ., 1993 ; schotte et al ., 1993 ; meltzer et al ., 1992 ; sumiyoshi et al ., 1994 , svartengren and celander , 1994 ; sumiyoshi et al ., 1995 ), what was expected was a more potent da 2 antagonism of cocaine - induced da release . thus , the exact reason for this second hr da phenomenon , cannot be conclusively derived from the present experiments and further study will provide answers as to whether or not this phenomenon is exclusive to the typicality of the high dose nature of risperidone . moreover , the complexity of the receptor profile of risperidone should be factored into the equation . this cannot be ruled out because effects at the 5 - ht 1a receptor and inverse agonist activity at 5 - ht 2c receptors have been reported for risperidone ( ichikawa and meltzer , 2000 ; dimatteo et al . 2002 , respectively ), nor interaction with α 1 and α 2 receptors as well as histamine h 1 receptors be ruled out because of risperidone &# 39 ; s high affinity at these receptors ( janssen et al ., 1988 ; leysen et al ., 1988 ; leysen et al ., 1992 ). nonetheless and importantly , though , the present data may well help elucidate risperidone as a pharmacotherapeutic strategy for cocaine because this moderately enhanced da release presynaptically may help allay craving for cocaine while the postsynaptic blockade response may reduce euphoria from cocaine ( broderick and piercey , 1998b ). subacute studies : during the 24 hr studies , when no further drug was administered , both da and 5 - ht release in nacc returned to baseline while behavioral parameters were increased insignificantly above baseline . the deficiencies in monoamine release produced by cocaine appear to have been alleviated by the atypical antipsychotic , risperidone . withdrawal deficiencies such as 5 - ht were down - modulated , an effect which may be helpful in depression consequent to cocaine withdrawal . the subacute response to the combination , risperidone and cocaine treatment may again be reasoned by the longer half - life of the risperidone metabolite , 9 - hydroxyrisperidone ( mannens et al . 1993 ) and probably not the shorter half - life of cocaine ( nayak et al ., 1976 ). alternatively , we may invoke the response of dat and sert to risperidone in nacc ; these transporter proteins resist inactivation after treatment with risperidone and monoamines remain longer in the synapses for activation at pre and post - synaptic effects ( tarazi et al ., 2000 ). results from in - depth in vivo microvoltammetric and behavioral studies on three acute and three subacute studies , involving risperidone , cocaine and risperidone / cocaine combination have provided the following pertinent conclusions . ( a ) risperidone &# 39 ; s enhanced 5 - ht release subacutely may prove valuable in the treatment of the depressive aspects of schizoaffective disorders . ( b ) cocaine produced withdrawal symptoms most dramatically in da and 5 - ht release during subacute studies , likely due to neuroadaptive mechanisms . ( c ) risperidone &# 39 ; s blockade of cocaine - enhanced neurochemistry and behavior during acute studies , and amelioration of cocaine withdrawal effects , subacutely , suggests that risperidone may present a viable pharmacotherapy for cocaine addiction , psychosis and withdrawal . some terms used in the instant disclosure have been abbreviated herein as follows : activity pattern monitor ( apm ); ascorbic acid ( aa ); bovine serum albumin ( bsa ); dihydroxyphenylacetic acid ( dopac ); [(+/−)- 2 , 5 - dimethoxy - 4 - iodoamphetamine hydrochloride ] ( doi ); dopamine ( da ); dorsal raphe ( dr ); extrapyramidal symptoms ( eps ); gamma - butyrolactone ( γbl ); homovanillic acid ( hva ); [ r (+)- 8 - hydroxy - 2 -( di - n - propylamino )- tetralin ] ( r (+)- 8 - oh - dpat ); 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid ( 5 - hiaa ); institutional animal care and use committee ( iacuc ); mesolimbic pathway ; mesocorticolimbic neuronal pathway ( a 10 ); nigrostriatal neuronal pathway ( a 9 ); norepinephrine ( ne ); nucleus accumbens ( nacc ); phosphotidylethanolamine ( pea ); picoamperes ( pa ); prefrontal cortex ( pfc ); raman resonance ( rr ); serotonin ( 5 - ht ); silver / silver chloride ( ag / ag / cl ); subacute studies ( 24 hr follow - up studies ); surface enhanced raman spectroscopy ( sers ); tyrosine hydroxylase ( th ); uric acid ( ua ); ventral tegmental area ( vta ); ventrolateral nucleus accumbens ( vlnacc ). affinity constant ( ki ); [ cis -(+)- 1s , 2r - 5 methoxy - 1 methyl - 2 -( n - propylamino )- tetralin hcl ] ( aj76 ); american psychiatric association ( apa ); dopamine 2 , 3 receptors ( dad 2 / 3 ); dopamine transporter protein ( dat ); effective dose [ 50 %] ( ed 50 ); extrapyramidal symptoms ( eps ); parachlorophenylalanine ( pcpa ); serotonin transporter protein ( sert ); single photon emission computerized tomography ( spect ); striatum ( str ); subacute studies ( 24 hr follow - up studies ). the following citations provide helpful background information and are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference . allen , s . m ., freeman , j . n ., davis , w . m ., 1998 . evaluation of risperidone in the neonatal 6 - hydroxydopamine model of lesch - nyhan syndrome . pharmacol . biochem . behav . 59 ( 2 ) 327 - 330 . american psychiatric association , 2000 . diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders , dsm iv - tr . amer . psychiat . assn ., wash . d . c . andrews , c . m ., lucki , i ., 2001 . effects of cocaine on extracellular dopamine and serotonin levels in the nucleus accumbens . psychopharmacology , ( berl .) 155 ( 3 ), 221 - 229 beart , p . m ., mcdonald , d ., 1982 . 5 - hydroxytryptamine and 5 - hydroxytryptaminergic - dopaminergic interactions in the ventral tegmental area of rat brain . j . pharm . pharmacol . 34 , 591 - 593 . bersani , g ., grispini , a ., marini , s ., pasini , a ., valducci , m ., clani , n ., 1986 . neuroleptic - induced eps : clinical perspectives with ritanserin ( r 55667 ), a new selective 5 - ht2 receptor blocking agent . curr . ther . res . 40 , 492 - 499 . blum , k ., trachtenberg , m . c ., kowzlowski , g . p ., 1989 . cocaine therapy : the ‘ reward cascade ’ link . prof . counselor jan ./ feb ., 327 - 335 . bradberry , c . w ., nobiletti , j . b ., elsworth , j . d ., murphy , b ., jatlow , p ., roth , r . h ., 1993 . cocaine and cocaethylene : microdialysis comparison of brain drug levels and effects on dopamine and serotonin . j . neurochem . 60 , 1429 - 1435 . bradberry , c . w ., roth , r . h ., 1989 . cocaine increases extracellular dopamine in rat nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area as shown by in vivo microdialysis . neurosci . lett . 103 , 97 - 102 . brady , k . t ., lydiard , r . b ., malcolm , r ., ballenger , j . c ., 1991 . cocaine - induced psychosis . j . clin . psychiat . 52 , 509 - 512 . broderick , p . a . piercey , m . f ., 1998b . neurochemical and behavioral evidence supporting (+)- aj 76 as a potential pharmacotherapy for cocaine abuse . j . neural . transm . 105 , 1307 - 1324 . broderick , p . a ., 1987 . striatal neurochemistry of dynorphin -( 1 - 13 ): in vivo electrochemical semidifferential analyses . neuropeptides 10 , 369 - 386 . broderick , p . a ., 1988 . distinguishing in vitro electrochemical signatures for norepinephrine and dopamine . neurosci . lett . 95 , 275 - 280 . broderick , p . a ., 1989 . characterizing stearate probes in vitro for the electrochemical detection of dopamine and serotonin . brain res . 495 , 115 - 121 . broderick , p . a ., 1990 . state - of - the - art microelectrodes for in vivo voltammetry . electroanalysis 2 , 241 - 251 . broderick , p . a ., 1991a . cocaine : on - line analysis of an accumbens amine neuronal basis for psychomotor behavior . pharmacol . biochem . behav . 40 , 959 - 968 . broderick , p . a ., 1991b . in vivo voltammetric studies on release mechanisms for cocaine with γ - butyrolactone . pharmacol . biochem . behav . 40 , 969 - 975 . broderick , p . a ., 1992a . cocaine &# 39 ; 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the present invention provides methods of treating cocaine - induced pyschosis by administering an atypical antipsychotic compound in an amount sufficient to increase serotonin concentration in the nucleus accumbens of a mammal . according to the invention , atypical antipsychotic compounds include , without limitation , clozapine , risperidone , olanzepine , quetiapine , ziprasidone , sertindole , ketanserin , aripiprazole , and haloperidol , flupenthixol , thiroridazine , loxapine , fluspirilense , and sulpliride . the invention further provides methods for microvoltammetric imaging of changes in neurotransmitter concentrations in vivo and in real time comprising contacting the cell , cells , tissue , tissues , or organ of interest with a broderick probe & amp ; reg ; sensor , applying a potential to said broderick probe & amp ; reg ; sensor , and monitoring a temporally and spacially resolved recording using neuromolecular imaging and electrochemical circuits such as , for example , voltammetry . in one embodiment of the invention , neuromolecular imaging may be performed before , during or after cocaine administration and / or cocaine - induced psychosis .