ABSTRACT
Behavioral pharmacology is a synthesis of two disciplines: neuropharmacology and behavior analysis. Thus, many of the methods and procedures that are used originated from these two experimental approaches. The experimental analysis of behavior has contributed procedures for the precise control of an organism's behavior that have resulted in a substantial knowledge of the behavioral determinants of drug effects. Neuropharmacologists have used biochemical and physiological methodologies to investigate the molecular mechanisms of drug action on the nervous system. These neuropharmacological techniques produced information about drug effects at both the molecular and cellular level but have not resulted in major advances in understanding basic neurobiological mechanisms of the effects of drugs on behavior (Cooper, Bloom, & Roth, 1982).
