Self-Administration

Self-administration is a common method in behavioral pharmacological, reward-seeking and addiction behavior research.

 It provides perfect scientific research protocol for the qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation of drug psycho-dependence.

Based on the positive reinforcement effect of some drugs and under the certain conditions,

animals can obtain certain incentive operations after performing the specified actions and steps set by the experimental program,

thus behavior and reward can be connected, which is to simulate huma drug abuse situation.