CocaineDopamine {abd}

Effects of Cocaine on Dopamine Receptors

Description

Percent of dopamine receptors blocked (percent.bocked) and the perceived level of high as determined by PET scans (high) in 34 humans.

Format

A data frame with 34 observations on the following 2 variables.

percent.blocked

a numeric vector

high

a numeric vector

Source

Volkow, N.D., G.-J. Wang, R.W. Foltin, J.S. Fowler, N.N. Abumrad, S. Vitkun, J. Logan, S.J. Gatley, N. Pappas, R. Hitzemann, and C.E. Shea. 1997. Relationship between subjective effects of cocaine and dopamine transporter occupancy. Nature 386: 827-830.

References

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v386/n6627/abs/386827a0.html

Examples

str(CocaineDopamine)
xyplot(high ~ percent.blocked, CocaineDopamine)