Effects of Cocaine on Dopamine Receptors

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

Usage

CocaineDopamine

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)
#> 'data.frame':	34 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ percent.blocked: int  70 71 82 88 46 66 68 83 40 65 ...
#>  $ high           : int  10 10 10 10 8 8 8 8 7 7 ...
xyplot(high ~ percent.blocked, CocaineDopamine)