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Jack R. Nation
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 105
Citations - 1985
Jack R. Nation is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lead acetate & Cadmium chloride. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 105 publications receiving 1931 citations. Previous affiliations of Jack R. Nation include United States Department of Agriculture.
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Self-administered cocaine causes long-lasting increases in impulsive choice in a delay discounting task.
Ian A. Mendez,Nicholas W. Simon,Nigel Hart,Marci R. Mitchell,Jack R. Nation,Paul J. Wellman,Barry Setlow +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that self-administered cocaine can cause lasting elevations in impulsive choice, and that the high levels of impulsive choices observed in human cocaine users may be due in part to long-term effects of cocaine on brain function.
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Augmentation of cocaine hyperactivity in rats by systemic ghrelin
TL;DR: Results indicate that acute injection of ghrelin, at a feeding-relevant dose, augments the acute effects of cocaine on locomotion in rats.
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Neurotoxicants, Micronutrients, and Social Environments Individual and Combined Effects on Children's Development
TL;DR: This monograph examines the literature on lead, mercury, manganese, and cadmium in terms of dispersal, epidemiology, experimental animal studies, effects of social environments, and effects of nutrition and recommends interdisciplinary research that will enable us to bridge gaps within and across domains.
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Impairment of acquisition of cocaine self-administration in rats maintained on a high-fat diet.
TL;DR: The results suggest that prolonged exposure to a high-fat diet diminishes the efficacy of cocaine reinforcement and is not a function of dietary-induced obesity.
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Sport psychology : an introduction
Arnold LeUnes,Jack R. Nation +1 more
TL;DR: A wide variety of topics, including steroid abuse in sport and fitness, women athletes as portrayed by the media, psychological testing, fitness, exercise adherence, homophobia in sports, and eating disorders are discussed in this article.