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When tested for the operant lever-pressing response to get access to receptive females, the ethanol-injected male rats show increased latencies, implying attenuated sexual motivation [9].
Possibilities for interventions designed both to attenuate unintentional motivation and to promote intentional motivation are considered.
Systemic treatment with prazosin (an α1 antagonist) attenuates the motivation for cocaine in rats trained under long-access conditions, whereas α2 or β1 antagonists are ineffective [ 285].
Rehabilitation outcome studies on chronic patients going beyond 2 years post brain injury show that the majority of cases experience persisting apathy symptoms with related psychosocial problems characterised by lack of motivation, attenuated emotionality, decreased social contact and leisure activity, unemployment, marital problems and family breakdowns [ 3].
Finally, 5-HT1B receptor agonists decrease cue-elicited and cocaine-primed reinstatement of extinguished cocaine-seeking behavior, suggesting that these receptors attenuate incentive motivation for cocaine.
For example, progression of sarcopenia can be attenuated by physical activity, but depressive symptoms may decrease motivation to exercise [ 8, 9].
Interestingly, this disruption was significantly attenuated by 4-h pup separation (a procedure putatively increased maternal motivation).
Everything is attenuated.
It is now dangerously attenuated.
So its startle reflex is not attenuated.
