PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - James E. Barrett
AU  - Jack Bergman
TI  - Peter B. Dews and Pharmacological Studies on Behavior
AID  - 10.1124/jpet.108.139261
DP  - 2008 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
PG  - 683--690
VI  - 326
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/326/3/683.short
4100  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/326/3/683.full
SO  - J Pharmacol Exp Ther2008 Sep 01; 326
AB  - The publications by Peter B. Dews of a series of five articles entitled “Studies on Behavior”, beginning in 1955 and ending in 1959, were contributions of extraordinary significance in laying a foundation for the emergence of the discipline of behavioral pharmacology. The series of articles were rigorous in their approach, dramatic in terms of the results, and provocative in their implications. Published at the near half-century mark of the founding of the American Society for Pharmacological and Experimental Therapeutics, it is appropriate to now provide a Centennial Perspective on the impact of these studies over 50 years following their publication and to comment on the way in which they helped to influence the directions in which this discipline has evolved. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics