Microinjection of morphine into the nucleus accumbens impairs contextual learning in rats.

abstract：:Stages of formation of memory and the roles of different forebrain structures in memory formation were investigated by injecting various agents into the brains of chicks close to the time of peck-avoidance training. With L-glutamate injected bilaterally into the hyperstriatum 5 min pretraining, retention was good 1 mi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Patterson TA,Alvarado MC,Warner IT,Bennett EL,Rosenzweig MR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism has received attention in schizophrenia due to its role in prefrontal dopamine catabolism. Given the rich dopaminergic innervations of the olfactory bulb and the influence of dopamine on the transmission of olfactory signals, the authors examined the influ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kamath V,Moberg PJ,Gur RE,Doty RL,Turetsky BI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active sleep (AS), as measured by the occurrence of myoclonic twitching (MT), is the most prevalent behavioral state in newborn rats. Historically, AS has been considered a developmental precursor of REM sleep, but recently this idea has been questioned. In the present study, the authors assess, in 2-, 5-, and 8-day-o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Karlsson KA,Blumberg MS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dl-cathinone on milk intake and motor activity were investigated in bottle- and cannula-fed rats. Acute injections of cathinone produced dose-dependent increases in activity in both groups but only produced decreased intake in bottle-fed rats. With chronic injections, tolerance to the suppression of int...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wolgin DL,Munoz JR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mother rabbits nurse once daily with circadian periodicity. The authors investigated brain structures involved in regulating this activity by quantifying c-FOS-immunoreactive (IR) cells in the forebrain of: (1) mothers killed on postpartum Day 1 (PPD 1) after nursing (Group 1) or not given pups (Group 2); (2) mothers ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： González-Mariscal G,Jiménez A,Chirino R,Beyer C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male rats consumed 50-150% more 0.5 M NaCl solution than females did during a 7-hr drinking test when robust salt appetite was elicited by dietary sodium deprivation for 8 days, daily injections of deoxycorticosterone, or adrenalectomy followed by 2 days of sodium deprivation. In contrast, male rats drank much l...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheidler MG,Verbalis JG,Stricker EM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear conditioning shows associations formed between contextual or auditory stimuli with an unconditioned stimulus. Inbred mouse strains differ in their ability to demonstrate fear conditioning, suggesting at least a partial genetic influence. The present study identified the possible chromosomal loci regulating fear c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Owen EH,Christensen SC,Paylor R,Wehner JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of postnatal choline supplementation on neurochemical and behavioral parameters in preweanling BALB/cByJ mice. Mouse pups were injected daily subcutaneously with choline chloride (0.85 mM/g body weight) from Postnatal Day (PND) 1 to PND 16. Pups performed a passive ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ricceri L,Berger-Sweeney J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments used an associative blocking design to study the role of dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) and core (AcbC) in fear prediction error. Rats in the experimental groups were trained to a visual fear-conditioned stimulus (conditional stimulus [CS]) A in Stage I, whereas rats in the c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Li SS,McNally GP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus has been implicated in anxiety, novelty detection, spatial- contextual processing, and hyperactivity. Accordingly, the authors contrasted the role of the dorsal hippocampus (DH) and the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) in an open field task that presents the onset and termination of a bright light gr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Godsil BP,Stefanacci L,Fanselow MS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in the consolidation of an association between an olfactory stimulus and footshock was investigated with a reversible lesion technique of post-training intra-BLA infusions of tetrodotoxin. Rats receiving tetrodotoxin infusions following paired odor-shock presentations spent m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kilpatrick L,Cahill L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used anatomical cues to suggest a functional dissociation between the roles of the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus in learning. The authors proposed that the highly convergent inputs to the entorhinal cortex indicate this region may be particularly important for selecting or compressing information. T...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shohamy D,Allen MT,Gluck MA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discrete stimulus (flashing light) was paired with cocaine (20 mg/kg) to induce conditioned locomotion. To identify brain regions activated during this response, Fos was measured with immunohistochemistry. Although paired subjects displayed robust conditioned locomotion, Fos was not increased in any limbic brain reg...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hotsenpiller G,Horak BT,Wolf ME

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research (Grau, 1987a, 1987b) suggests that forebrain systems play an essential role in the hypoalgesia observed after brief shock but not long shock. Additional research has shown that pentobarbital anesthesia and decerebration block the hypoalgesia observed after 3 brief (0.75-s) shocks but not the hypoalge...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meagher MW,Grau JW,King RA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in animals induces contralateral sensorimotor deficits that are like symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Unilateral nigrostriatal dopamine depletion also causes a contralateral deficit in disengagement behavior (e.g., ability to stop an ongoing activity to ori...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Smith ES,Geissler SA,Schallert T,Lee HJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of 4-hydroxyamphetamine (4-OHAM) on food and water intake and in vivo brown adipose thermogenesis was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, female rats were treated with 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, or 2.00 mg/kg 4-OHAM (ip) prior to assessment of interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) thermogenesi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wellman PJ,Watkins-Freeman PA

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous and drug-induced turning behavior and thigmotactic scanning were tested either acutely (4-6 hr) or chronically (9 days) after unilateral removal of vibrissae in rats. Rats that were tested acutely scanned more with the intact vibrissae side. This asymmetry was reduced in rats that were tested chronically, ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Milani H,Schwarting RK,Kumpf S,Steiner H,Huston JP

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat fetuses were exposed to cocaine, lidocaine, or saline on Gestational Day 20 or 21 to provide information about cocaine effects on behavior during prenatal development. Cocaine was administered into the cisterna magna of individual fetal subjects to restrict effects to the CNS. Behavioral effects of cocaine were co...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Simonik DK,Robinson SR,Smotherman WP

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurexins are a family of presynaptic cell adhesion molecules. Human genetic studies have found heterozygous deletions affecting NRXN1 and NRXN2, encoding α-neurexin I (Nrxn1α) and α-neurexin II (Nrxn2α), in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. However, the link between α-neurexin deficien...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dachtler J,Ivorra JL,Rowland TE,Lever C,Rodgers RJ,Clapcote SJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that noxious cutaneous stimulation engages physiologically different antinociceptive systems to inhibit a spinal reflex, tail withdrawal from radiant heat. Two experiments are reported that examine the relationship between the inhibition of the tail-flick response and brain-mediated responses to noc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Crown ED,Grau JW,Meagher MW

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion studies have shown that the avian hippocampus plays a crucial role in homing pigeon (Columba livia) navigation. Using the expression of the immediate early gene protein ZENK in intact pigeons, the authors found regional variation in hippocampal activation as a consequence of homing and, necessarily, the behavio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shimizu T,Bowers AN,Budzynski CA,Kahn MC,Bingman VP

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult Japanese quail display left-eye/right-hemisphere dominance in visually guided sexual tracking. In 2 experiments, the authors set out to answer if this functional cerebral asymmetry is modifiable by posthatch monocular deprivation. In Experiment 1, the left or the right eye of 2-day old quail were closed for 70 d...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gülbetekin E,Güntürkün O,Dural S,Cetinkaya H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cAMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB) is a transcription factor that regulates synaptic plasticity and memory formation. Studies that have used conditioned fear models have established that CREB is important for the acquisition and consolidation of fear learning. The authors demonstrate that overexpressio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jasnow AM,Shi C,Israel JE,Davis M,Huhman KL

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of controls not included in previous studies, evidence is presented for the existence of water-induced central excitatory state (w-CES) from analyses of pure-breeding high- and low-CES lines in the blow fly, Phormia regina. The CES lines differed in base-level responsiveness to distilled water (and to sal...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Tully T,Hirsch J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the impact of neonatal injury on adult spinal plasticity in rats. Subjects were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental conditions: (a) hind-paw injury at Postnatal Day (PD) 2, (b) hind-paw injury at PD 5, (c) anesthesia exposure only on PD 2, or (d) anesthesia exposure only...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young EE,Baumbauer KM,Elliot A,Joynes RL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine a possible interaction between thyroxine and estradiol in the control of feeding, 14 ovariectomized adult female rats were given daily injections of 9.8 micrograms/100 g of body weight of 1-thyroxine (T). Another 14 rats received 0.15 ml of saline (S) subcutaneously each day, and food intake was me...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young JK

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually receptive females mount sexually sluggish males to entice them to copulate, and estrogen and male olfactory cues mediate this female-male mounting (FMM) in the rat. This study examined whether brain regions that concentrate steroid hormones and receive olfactory projections were important for the mediation of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Afonso VM,Lehmann H,Tse M,Woehrling A,Pfaus JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quipazine is a 5-HT2A-receptor agonist that has been used to induce motor activity and promote recovery of function after spinal cord injury in neonatal and adult rodents. Sensory stimulation also activates sensory and motor circuits and promotes recovery after spinal cord injury. In rats, tail pinching is an effectiv...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Swann HE,Kauer SD,Allmond JT,Brumley MR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinematic parameters of air-stepping induced by 2 methods known to elicit locomotion (olfactory stimulation vs. L-dopa injection) were compared in 3-day-old rats. In the 1st stage, suspended pups were induced to step with an olfactory stimulus of soiled shavings from the nest. In the 2nd stage, they received a sub...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jamon M,Maloum I,Riviere G,Bruguerolle B

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies the cerebellar interpositus (IP) nucleus, but not the hippocampus, was shown to be necessary both for initial learning and retention and for long-term retention of the standard delay eyeblink conditioned response (CR). However, in the trace eyeblink CR procedure, the hippocampus is also necessary f...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pakaprot N,Kim S,Thompson RF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00