Dr. Richard A. Meisch

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Medical School
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor

Mailing Address

1300 Moursund
University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center
Houston, Texas 77030
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (713) 500-2863
Fax: (713) 500-2849
Richard.A.Meisch@uth.tmc.edu

Qualifications

M.D., University of Minnesota, 1970.
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Pharmacology (minor: Psychology), 1970.
B.A., University of Minnesota, Philosophy (Minor: Psychology), 1964.

Expertise and Research Interests

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Other Expertise

FELLOW: American Psychological Association, American Psychopathological Association.

OFFICE: Food and Drug Administration Chairman, Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, UTHHSC Animal Care and Use Committee Vice-Chair, UTHHSC Research, Council Executive Committee of the Neuroscience Research Center.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Addictions, Alcohol Or Alcoholism, Animal Models, Drugs Or Drug Abuse, Psychiatry.

Additional Terms:

Alcoholism, Animal Models, Behavior, Drug Addiction, Drug Dependence, Drug Self-administration, Operant Conditioning, Primates.

Memberships

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
American Psychological Association
American Psychopathological Association
Association for Behavioral Analysis
Behavioral Pharmacology Society
College on Problems of Drug Dependence
International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism
International Study Group Investigating Drugs as Reinforcers
Research Society on Alcoholism

Publications

  • Gomez TH, Roache JD, Meisch RA, Relative reinforcing effects of different benzodiazepine doses for rhesus monkeys, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 68(3), 275-83, December 2002 Abstract
  • Gomez TH, Roache JD, Meisch RA, Orally delivered alprazolam, diazepam, and triazolam as reinforcers in rhesus monkeys, Psychopharmacology, 161(1), 86-94, April 2002 Abstract
  • Stewart RB, Wang NS, Bass AA, Meisch RA, Relative reinforcing effects of different oral ethanol doses in rhesus monkeys, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77(1), 49-64, January 2002 Abstract
  • Meisch RA, Oral drug self-administration: an overview of laboratory animal studies, Alcohol (fayetteville, N.y.), 24(2), 117-28, June 2001 Abstract
  • Wang NS, Brown VL, Grabowski J, Meisch RA, Reinforcement by orally delivered methadone, cocaine, and methadone-cocaine combinations in rhesus monkeys: are the combinations better reinforcers?, Psychopharmacology, 156(1), 63-72, June 2001 Abstract
  • Spiga R, Huang DB, Meisch RA, Grabowski J, Human methadone self-administration: effects of diazepam pretreatment, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9(1), 40-6, February 2001 Abstract
  • Meisch RA, Oral drug selp-administration: An overview of laboratory animal studies, 117-128, 2001
  • Gomez TH, Meisch RA, Reinforcing effects of contingently administered subcutaneous injections of etonitazene in rats, Psychopharmacology, 134-138, 2000
  • Meisch RA, Relative persistence of behavior: a fundamental measure of relative reinforcing effects, Experimental and clinical Psychopharmacology, 333-349, 2000
  • Meisch RA, Relative persistence of behavior: A reply to comments, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 362-365, 2000
  • Wang NS, Stewart RB, Meisch RA, Orally delivered methadone as a reinforcer: Effects of the opioid antagonist naloxone., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 55(1-2), 79-84, 1 Jun 1999 Abstract
  • Macenski MJ Meisch RA, Cocaine self-administration under conditions of_restricted and unrestricted food access, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 324-337, 1999
  • Shelton KL, Macenski MJ, Meisch RA, Reinforcing effects of a combination of ethanol and methadone relative to each drug alone., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 61(4), 367-74, December 1998 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Spiga R, Matching under nonindependent variable-ratio schedules of drug reinforcement., Journal of The Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70(1), 23-34, July 1998 Abstract
  • Ahlgren-Beckendorf JA, Stewart RB, Gomez TH, Silverman PB, Meisch RA, Lever-press responding maintained by contingent intraperitoneal administration of etonitazene in Long Evans hooded rats., Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 80(2), 149-54, 30 Apr 1998 Abstract
  • Boyle A E, Stewart R B, Macenski M J, Spiga R, Johnson B A, Meisch R A, Effects of acute and chronic doses of naltrexone on ethanol self-administration in rhesus monkeys., Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 22(2), 359-66, April 1998 Abstract
  • Macenski, M. J. & Meisch, R. A., Ration size and cocaine concentration efects on oral cocaine-reinforced behavior, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 185-201, 1998
  • Shelton, K. Macenski, M.J. & Meisch, R.A., Reinforcing effects of a combination of ethanol and methadone relative to each drug alone, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 367-374, 1998
  • Roache J D, Stanley M A, Creson D R, Shah N N, Meisch R A, Alprazolam-reinforced medication use in outpatients with anxiety., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 45(3), 143-55, 2 May 1997 Abstract
  • Bell S M, Stewart R B, Thompson S C, Meisch R A, Food-deprivation increases cocaine-induced conditioned place preference and locomotor activity in rats., Psychopharmacology, 131(1), 1-8, May 1997 Abstract
  • Stewart R B, Bass A A, Wang N S, Meisch R A, Ethanol as an oral reinforcer in normal weight rhesus monkeys: dose-response functions., Alcohol, 13(4), 341-6, July 1996 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Stewart R B, Wang N S, Orally delivered methadone as a reinforcer for rhesus monkeys: the relationship between drug concentration and choice., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 54(3), 547-54, July 1996 Abstract
  • Stewart R B, Grabowski J, Wang N S, Meisch R A, Orally delivered methadone as a reinforcer in rhesus monkeys., Psychopharmacology, 123(2), 111-8, January 1996 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Oral self-administration of etonitazene in rhesus monkeys: use of a fading procedure to establish etonitazene as a reinforcer., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 50(4), 571-80, April 1995 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Stewart R B, Relative reinforcing effects of different doses of orally delivered cocaine., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 37(2), 141-7, February 1995 Abstract
  • Roache J D, Meisch R A, Henningfield J E, Jaffe J H, Klein S, Sampson A, Reinforcing effects of triazolam in sedative abusers: correlation of drug liking and self-administration measures., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 50(2), 171-9, February 1995 Abstract
  • Stewart B S, Lemaire G A, Roache J D, Meisch R A, Establishing benzodiazepines as oral reinforcers: midazolam and diazepam self-administration in rhesus monkeys., Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 271(1), 200-11, October 1994 Abstract
  • Bell S M, Gosnell B A, Krahn D D, Meisch R A, Ethanol reinforcement and its relationship to saccharin preference in Wistar rats., Alcohol, 11(2), 141-5, March 1994 Abstract
  • Beardsley P M, Lemaire G A, Meisch R A, Persistence of ethanol self-administration as a function of interreinforcer interval and concentration., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 34(1), 71-81, December 1993 Abstract
  • Bell S M, Macenski M J, Silverman P B, Meisch R A, Water deprivation-induced oral self-administration of cocaine in the Lewis rat: evidence for locomotor effects but not reinforcement., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 45(3), 749-54, July 1993 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Bell S M, Lemaire G A, Orally self-administered cocaine in rhesus monkeys: transition from negative or neutral behavioral effects to positive reinforcing effects., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 32(2), 143-58, April 1993 Abstract
  • Macenski M J, Cutrell E B, Meisch R A, Concurrent pentobarbital- and saccharin-maintained responding: effects of saccharin concentration and schedule conditions., Psychopharmacology, 112(2-3), 204-10, 1993 Abstract
  • Macenski M J, Meisch R A, Ethanol-reinforced responding of naive rhesus monkeys: acquisition without induction procedures., Alcohol, 9(6), 547-54, November 1992 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Lemaire G A, Cutrell E B, Oral self-administration of pentobarbital by rhesus monkeys: relative reinforcing effects under concurrent signalled differential-reinforcement-of-low-rates schedules., Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 30(3), 215-25, August 1992 Abstract
  • Suzuki T, George F R, Meisch R A, Etonitazene delivered orally serves as a reinforcer for Lewis but not Fischer 344 rats., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 42(4), 579-86, August 1992 Abstract
  • Suzuki T, Koike Y, Yanaura S, George F R, Meisch R A, Sex differences in physical dependence on pentobarbital in four inbred strains of rats., General Pharmacology, 23(3), 487-92, May 1992 Abstract
  • Lamb R J, Preston K L, Schindler C W, Meisch R A, Davis F, Katz J L, Henningfield J E, Goldberg S R, The reinforcing and subjective effects of morphine in post-addicts: a dose-response study., Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 259(3), 1165-73, December 1991 Abstract
  • George F R, Elmer G I, Meisch R A, Goldberg S R, Orally delivered cocaine functions as a positive reinforcer in C57BL/6J mice., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 38(4), 897-903, April 1991 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Establishment of drug discrimination and drug reinforcement in different animal strains: some methodological issues., Journal of Addictive Diseases, 10(1-2), 179-87, 1991 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Lemaire G A, Effects of feeding condition on orally delivered ethanol as a reinforcer for rhesus monkeys., Alcohol, 8(1), 55-63, January 1991 Abstract
  • Elmer G I, Meisch R A, Goldberg S R, George F R, Ethanol self-administration in long sleep and short sleep mice indicates reinforcement is not inversely related to neurosensitivity., Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 254(3), 1054-62, September 1990 Abstract
  • George F R, Meisch R A, Cyclooxygenase inhibitors antagonize the rate-depressant effects of ethanol on fixed-ratio responding., Alcohol, 7(4), 355-60, July 1990 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, Lemaire G A, Reinforcing effects of a pentobarbital-ethanol combination relative to each drug alone., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 35(2), 443-50, February 1990 Abstract
  • George F R, Ritz M C, Meisch R A, Rate-depressant effects of ethanol on fixed-ratio responding in ALKO AA and ANA rats., Advances In Alcohol and Substance Abuse, 9(3-4), 31-42, 1990 Abstract
  • Meisch R A, George F R, Lemaire G A, Orally delivered cocaine as a reinforcer for rhesus monkeys., Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 35(1), 245-9, January 1990 Abstract
  • Spiga R, Cherek D R, Meisch R A, Roache J D, Human multioperant responding: effects of triazolam., Nida Research Monograph, 95, 477-8, 1989 Abstract
  • MEISCH, R.A., Bell, S.M., Lemaire, G.A. Orally self-administered cocaine in rhesus monkeys transition from negative or neutral behavorial effects to positive reinforcing effects. Drug Al Dep 32(2):143-158, Apr 1993
  • Bell, S.M., Macenski, M.J., Silverma, P.B., MEISCH, R.A. Water deprivation- induced oral self-administration of cocaine in the lewisrat - evidence for locomotor effects but not reinforcement. Pharm Bio B 45(3):749-754, Jul 1993
  • Suzuki, T., George, F.R., MEISCH, R.A. Etonitazene delivered orally serves as a reinforcer for Lewis but not Fischer 344 rats. Pharm Bio B 42(4):579-586, Aug 1992
  • MEISCH, R.A., LeMaire, G.A., Cutrell, E.B. Oral self-administration of pentobarbital by Rhesus monkeys - relative reinforcing effects under concurrent signaled differential reinforcement of low-rates schedules. Drug Al Dep 30(3):215-225, Aug 1992
  • Macenski, M.J., MEISCH, R.A. Ethanol-reinforced responding of naive Rhesus monkeys - acquisition without induction procedures. Alcohol 9(6):547-554, Nov-Dec 1992
  • Stewart RB, Wang N-S, Bass AA & Meisch RA, Relative reinforcing efects of different oral ethanol doses in rhesus monkeys, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

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