ENDOGENOUS OPIATES - 1992

This paper is the fifteenth installment of our annual review of resear ch concerning the opiate system. It includes papers published during 1 992 involving the behavioral. nonanalgesic, effects of the endogenous opiate peptides. The specific topics this year include stress; toleran ce and dependence; eating; drinking: gastrointestinal and renal functi on; mental illness and mood; learning, memory, and reward; cardiovascu lar responses; respiration and thermoregulation; seizures and other ne urological disorders; electrical-related activity; general activity an d locomotion: sex, pregnancy. and development; immunological responses ; and other behaviors.