Dietary self-selection in intact, ovariectomized, and estradiol-treated female rats.

abstract：:Multi-unit recording of siphon nerve activity in intact Aplysia california with chronically implanted cuff electrodes provided a monitor of activity in a central pattern generator, the Interneuron II (Int II) network, which produces large siphon and gill contractions both spontaneously and after tactile stimulation of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Eberly LB,Pinsker HM

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the rat brain to acquire or to retain specific learning tasks was tested under conditions of multiple lesions and widely different amounts of practice. Lesion targets were (a) the medial prefrontal and cingulate cortex, (b) the anterior and mediodorsal thalamus, and (c) the dorsal and ventral hippocampu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Markowitsch HJ,Kessler J,Streicher M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested the prediction that D-cycloserine (DCS), a partial N-methyl-D-aspartate agonist, would facilitate extinction of conditioned freezing in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Rats received 5 light-shock pairings (conditioning). The following day, rats received 6 light-alone presentations (extinction traini...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ledgerwood L,Richardson R,Cranney J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats received kindling stimulations to the perirhinal cortex (PRh), ventral hippocampus (VH), or dorsal hippocampus (DH) in 1 environment and an equivalent number of sham stimulations in a 2nd environment. The PRh-kindled rats displayed rapid kindling and a swift emergence of conditioned interictal defensiveness. In c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Barnes SJ,Hua JM,Pinel JP,Takahashi A,Wig GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Whether olfactory working memory involves verbal representations or neural images of odor per se remains unclear. This study investigated whether verbal representation influences performance in an olfactory delayed-match-to-sample task and used monorhinal presentation to generate hypotheses as to the underlying anatom...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Yeshurun Y,Dudai Y,Sobel N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant humans were trained on 2 cognitive tests that have previously revealed, in infant monkeys, a double dissociation that was reversible by perinatal manipulations of androgens and ablations of specific brain sites. Children showed the same sex-linked behavior found with infant monkeys: young boys were superior on ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Overman WH,Bachevalier J,Schuhmann E,Ryan P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial learning and memory were studied in dogs of varying ages and sources. Compared to young dogs, a significantly higher proportion of aged dogs could not acquire a spatial delayed nonmatching-to-sample task. A regression analysis revealed a significant age effect during acquisition. Spatial memory was studied by ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Head E,Mehta R,Hartley J,Kameka M,Cummings BJ,Cotman CW,Ruehl WW,Milgram NW

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats had repeated treatments with cocaine associated with a specific context (paired group). Evidence for classical conditioning of cocaine's motor-activity effects and context-specific behavioral sensitization to cocaine was obtained, relative to vehicle-treated (control) and pseudoconditioned (unpaired) groups. Only...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Burechailo L,Martin-Iverson MT

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research shows that prenatal binge ethanol exposure during gestation days (GD) 17 to 20 of the rat, increases postnatal ethanol intake and enhances ethanol's palatability, both effects being mediated by the opioid system. The amniotic fluid of the last period of gestation (GD 20) of the rat has been found to ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Díaz-Cenzano E,Chotro MG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large neocortical injuries can interfere with the initial performance of many previously learned behaviors. This dysfunction, however, may not be attributable to the loss of the memories of learned behaviors but to a failure to access memories that are spared. The results of this experiment support this hypothesis by ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： LeVere TE,Brugler T,Sandin M,Gray-Silva S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is implicated in response selection and performance, the dorsal striatum in sensorimotor control and habit learning, and the ventral striatum in motivation and rewarded behaviors. Ventral striatal lesions produce performance changes on food-reinforced, progressive-ratio (PR) schedules, but the effects of ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Eagle DM,Humby T,Dunnett SB,Robbins TW

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiment 1 demonstrated that rats with caudate-putamen lesions show an impairment in the acquisition and reversal of a spatial maze task when compared with unoperated control subjects. Experiment 2 examined lever-press responding supported by a variable interval schedule in three groups of subjects: a group with cau...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mitchell JA,Channell S,Hall G

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma corticosterone levels were evaluated during operant conditioning in order to determine the effect of reinforced and nonreinforced responding (extinction) on adrenal activation. The influence of instrumental responding was assessed by comparing trained rats with yoked subjects that received a matched reward sche...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Coe CL,Stanton ME,Levine S

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：:Galanin is a 29-amino-acid neuropeptide that is overexpressed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and impairs performance on rodent learning and memory tasks. M40, a peptidergic galanin receptor ligand, blocks galanin-induced impairments on delayed non-matching-to-position (DNMTP). The present experiments used the 192IgG-sapo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McDonald MP,Wenk GL,Crawley JN

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrolytic microlesions aimed at the dorsomedial portion of the ventromedial nucleus (VMN) of the hypothalamus were generated, and effects on copulation, 50-kHz vocalizations, scent marking, and sexual motivation were measured. Male rats were tested before and after lesions, after castration, and after testosterone ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Harding SM,McGinnis MY

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2 experiments, the development of adjuvant arthritis (an experimental autoimmune disease) was inhibited by exposing rats to a flavored solution that had previously been paired with injections of cyclosporine (an immunodepressive drug) compared with rats with the same history but exposed to a flavored solution that ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Klosterhalfen S,Klosterhalfen W

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Female ovariectomized (OVX) and sham-OVX rats were trained in a task designed to assess sustained attention. After achieving asymptotic performance, OVX rats did not exhibit the impairment in performance over blocks of trials (i.e., the vigilance decrement) observed in sham-OVX rats. Furthermore, OVX rats' performance...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McGaughy J,Sarter M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the neural substrates underlying the development of a conditioned place preference (CPP) to morphine (2 mg/kg x 3 pairings) by testing whether lesions of 7 different neural sites block a morphine-induced CPP. Lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg), the periaqueductal gray (PAG), o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Olmstead MC,Franklin KB

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens have been shown to rapidly promote male copulatory behaviors with a time-course that suggests rapid signaling events are involved. The present study tested the hypothesis that estrogen acts through a novel Gq protein-coupled membrane estrogen receptor (ER). Thus, either estradiol (E2), STX (a diphenylacrylam...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kaufman KR,Kelly MJ,Roselli CE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acoustic startle response (ASR) of male rats was measured during several sessions over a 24-hr period in both a light-dark cycle and a constant-dark condition. Each session consisted of 10 trials each at 80, 90, 100, 110, and 120 dB white noise. The results indicate robust daily and circadian modulation of ASR amp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chabot CC,Taylor DH

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This series of experiments investigated the role of a prefrontal cortical-dorsal striatal circuit in attention, using a continuous performance task of sustained and spatially divided visual attention. A unilateral excitotoxic lesion of the medial prefrontal cortex and a contralateral lesion of the medial caudate-putam...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Christakou A,Robbins TW,Everitt BJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Studies have shown that ovarian hormones protect against some of the cognitive deficits associated with aging. Although much of the literature in rodents has focused on hippocampal dependent tasks, studies suggest that tasks dependent on the prefrontal cortex are also influenced by ovarian hormones. The present study ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chisholm NC,Juraska JM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In infant rats, administration of the alpha2 adrenoceptor agonist clonidine simultaneously evokes ultrasound production and bradycardia. In this study the authors examined in 8-day-old rats whether these 2 responses to clonidine are causally related. In Experiment 1 pups were pretreated with saline or prenalterol (0.1...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Blumberg MS,Kreber LA,Sokoloff G,Kent KJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial division of the medial geniculate body (MGm) projects to the lateral amygdala and the upper layer of auditory cortex and develops physiological plasticity rapidly during classical conditioning. The effects of learning on frequency receptive fields (RFs) in the MGm of the guinea pig have been determined. Cla...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Edeline JM,Weinberger NM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral changes induced by inescapable shock were examined in six strains of mice. Exposure to shock provoked time-dependent disturbances of shuttle escape performance. In some strains the shock treatment did not affect escape performance, whereas in others profound performance deficits were evident. The inescapabl...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shanks N,Anisman H

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Function of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) is critical to 2 aspects of attention in associative learning: the conditioning of orienting responses (ORs) to cues paired with food, and the enhancement of cue salience by the surprising omission of expected events. Such salience enhancements have been found to d...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Esber GR,Torres-Tristani K,Holland PC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00