Preferential use of the landmark navigational system by head direction cells in rats.

abstract：:The estradiol (E2), estrogen receptor-α (ERα), testosterone (T), and androgen receptor (AR) can contribute to anxiety, but whether they are associated with the reversion of prenatal adverse outcomes remains unclear. Here, we tested the interactive effects of prenatal maternal restraint stress and early postnatal short...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： He FQ,Fang G,Wang B,Guo XJ,Guo CL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained potential shifts (SPS) were recorded for 10 s from the surface of the optic tectum of toads presented with live prey and moving artificial prey stimuli. On the anterior tectal surface, a negative SPS was followed by a positive wave; the converse was true for the posterior tectum. Some animals were immobilize...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Laming PR,Ocherashvili IV,Nicol AU,Roughan JV,Laming BA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between testosterone and imprinting was investigated in domestic chicks. After hatching, chicks received either testosterone enanthate in oil or oil alone (controls). The chicks were then trained by exposing them to a rotating imprinting stimulus, either a red box or a stuffed jungle fowl. A preference sc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bolhuis JJ,McCabe BJ,Horn G

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned inhibition (CI) of the rat eyeblink response and the neuronal correlates of CI in the cerebellar interpositus nucleus were examined in the present study. In Experiment 1, CI was established with a novel, 3-group design. In Experiment 2, neuronal activity in the anterior interpositus nucleus was recorded du...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nicholson DA,Freeman JH Jr

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute mid-thoracic spinal cord transection eliminates hindlimb air-stepping in neonatal rats suspended in harnesses and administered L-DOPA. Because spinal cord transection eliminates all descending inputs to the hindlimb locomotor circuits, this experiment determined if coadministration of L-DOPA and quipazine (serot...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McEwen ML,Van Hartesveldt C,Stehouwer DJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Rats with bilateral, electrolytic lesions of perirhinal cortex (PRC), lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), or combined lesions (PRLE) were impaired relative to controls (sham) during initial acquisition in the Morris water maze, although all groups were eventually able to learn to locate the platform. A further deficit in...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Liu P,Bilkey DK

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial preoptic area (mPOA) is a key site for the dopaminergic enhancement of male sexual behavior. Dopamine release increases in the rat mPOA with mating, supporting the critical stimulatory role played by preoptic dopamine on male sexual behavior. However, it has been questioned whether dopamine is specifically ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kleitz-Nelson HK,Dominguez JM,Cornil CA,Ball GF

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 3 experiments, the authors examined the role of adenosine regulation in escape deficits produced by earlier exposure to inescapable shock in rats (learned helplessness). Adenosine analogs injected before escape testing mimicked the effect of earlier inescapable shock, with the magnitude of the deficit varying with ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Minor TR,Winslow JL,Chang WC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeys with conjoint bilateral lesions of the hippocampus and amygdala were impaired on four different tests of memory (delayed retention of object discriminations, concurrent discrimination, delayed response, and delayed nonmatching to sample). Because tests involving delays and distractions are known to be especial...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified learned food aversion paradigm simulated the prolonged food and illness exposure likely to characterize nutrient deficiencies or tumor growth. In this paradigm, a continuously available food was associated with a slow, continuous infusion of LiCl provided by osmotic minipump. Significant aversions were acqu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bernstein IL,Goehler LE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in humans, but therapeutic effects of exercise in an animal model of stress-related mood disorders have yet to be demonstrated. In the current study, the authors investigated the ability of wheel running to reverse a long-lasting interference with shuttle box esca...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Greenwood BN,Strong PV,Dorey AA,Fleshner M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of food products designed to mimic the sensory properties of sweet and fat while providing fewer calories has been promoted as a method for reducing food intake and body weight. However, such products may interfere with a learned relationship between the sensory properties of food and the caloric consequences ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Swithers SE,Ogden SB,Davidson TL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A learning event can be dissociated into 3 components: acquisition, storage, and recall. When the laboratory wild-type strain of Caenorhabditis elegans (N2 strain) is exposed to benzaldehyde in the absence of food, the worms display a reduction of their attractive response to this volatile odorant. This results from t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Atkinson-Leadbeater K,Nuttley WM,van der Kooy D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments explored the role of the opioid system in a situation involving a surprising reduction in reward magnitude: consummatory successive negative contrast. Rats received access to 32% sucrose solution (preshift Trials 1-10) followed by 4% solution (postshift Trials 11-15). Independent groups received an inj...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wood M,Daniel AM,Papini MR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of hippocampus in short-delay eye blink conditioning was reexamined during conditioned response (CR) consolidation. Rabbits received bilateral hippocampectomy, removal of overlying neocortex, or sham lesions and were trained with tone/puff pairings to early acquisition (consolidation) or well trained (over...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Akase E,Alkon DL,Disterhoft JF

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality is known to influence cognitive and affective functioning as well as the risk of psychiatric disorders. Exploration of the neurobiological correlates of personality traits has the potential to enhance understanding of their significance in development of related psychopathological states. The authors exami...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kumari V,ffytche DH,Das M,Wilson GD,Goswami S,Sharma T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment was designed to determine whether infusions of naloxone into specific brain sites can block sexual reinforcement as evaluated with the conditioned place preference procedure. Methylnaloxonium (5 micrograms/cannula) was infused bilaterally either into the medial preoptic area (MPOA) or into the n...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Agmo A,Gómez M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among young adults, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") is a popular drug of abuse, and anecdotal evidence indicates that repeated use of MDMA may result in impairments in sexual function and decreased sex drive in human users. There has been little investigation of the effects of MDMA on sexual functi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Straiko MM,Gudelsky GA,Coolen LM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neostriatum caudolaterale (NCL) in the pigeon (Columba livia) forebrain is a multisensory associative area and a functional equivalent to the mammalian prefrontal cortex (PFC). To investigate the role of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the NCL for learning flexibility, the authors trained pigeons in a col...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lissek S,Diekamp B,Güntürkün O

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contradictory results are found in the literature concerning the role of vision in the perception of space or in spatial navigation, in part because of the lack of murine models of total blindness used so far. The authors evaluated the spatial abilities of anophthalmic transgenic mice. These mice did not differ qualit...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buhot MC,Dubayle D,Malleret G,Javerzat S,Segu L

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amygdala central nucleus (CNA) lesions were used to test the hypothesis that stimulus-evoked heart rate changes can reflect the development of fear during acoustic startle testing. A 120-dB white noise startle stimulus produced freezing as well as phasic heart rate accelerations and decelerations, and an abrupt decrea...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young BJ,Leaton RN

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogenic stimulation on diet selection were examined in intact, estrous cycling rats, ovariectomized (OVX) rats, and OVX rats given estradiol benzoate (EB) hormone replacement therapy. In Experiment 1, OVX was associated with the nearly exclusive choice of the more calorically dense diet of a pair of ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bartness TJ,Waldbillig RJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to 3 moderately intense (1-mA) tailshocks has been shown to lower vocalization thresholds to both heat and shock. Previous shock exposure also facilitates the acquisition of conditioned fear as measured by freezing. These observations suggest that shock induces hyperalgesia (enhanced pain). This study explore...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McLemore S,Crown ED,Meagher MW,Grau JW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past work has demonstrated robust brain changes in cholecystokinin (CCK-8) following social defeat. Here the authors analyzed brain regional, CCK-8, substance P, corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), and neuropeptide Y levels in adult male Long-Evans rats defeated in a resident-intruder social aggression paradigm, as ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Panksepp J,Burgdorf J,Beinfeld MC,Kroes RA,Moskal JR

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:The effects of lesions of the medial dorsal thalamic nucleus (MD) on blocking and latent inhibition (LI) of the rat eyeblink response were examined in the present study. Previous work has demonstrated that the cingulate cortex and related thalamic areas are involved in processing conditioning stimuli throughout traini...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nicholson DA,Freeman JH Jr

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually experienced female rats return to the male more quickly after intromissions, exhibit shorter interintromission intervals, and spend more time with the male rat during a test of paced mating behavior in comparison to naïve rats. The present study tested whether these changes reflect heightened sexual motivatio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meerts SH,Park JH,Sekhawat R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments addressed the question of whether certain modalities of stimulation are more effective in eliciting immobility-related, atropine-sensitive neocortical low-voltage fast activity and hippocampal rhythmical slow activity from the rabbit. More pronounced activation and less pronounced habituation followed ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Whishaw IQ,Dyck R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relationship between hippocampal theta activity and trace eyeblink conditioning. Hippocampal electrophysiological local field potentials were recorded before, during, and after conditioning or explicitly unpaired training sessions in adult male New Zealand White rabbits. As expected, a high re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nokia MS,Penttonen M,Korhonen T,Wikgren J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00