Neuroethological studies of reflex plasticity in intact Aplysia.

abstract：:The effects of neurotoxic lesions of the amygdala central nucleus (CN) on changes in the associability of a conditioned stimulus (CS) in appetitive Pavlovian conditioning were examined in 2 experiments with rats. In Experiment 1, CN lesions had no effect on the reduction in the associability of a CS produced by preexp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Holland PC,Gallagher M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sniffing, a behavior that enhances detection and localization of odorants, is typically assumed to require behavioral arousal. In an effort to determine whether sniffing and arousal are dissociable, dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) was presented to 8-day-old rats while respiration and behavioral state were monitored. Pups sn...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Seelke AM,Blumberg MS

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Transecting the corpus callosum of postnatal day (P)1-6 rats disinhibits the production of spindle bursts (SBs) within primary somatosensory cortex (S1), most notably during periods of sleep-related myoclonic twitching. Here we investigated developmental changes in this callosally mediated disinhibition and its associ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Marcano-Reik AJ,Prasad T,Weiner JA,Blumberg MS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of an already consolidated memory makes it labile for a period of several hrs, which are required for its reconsolidation. Evidence suggests that the return of conditioned fear through spontaneous recovery, reinstatement, or renewal can be prevented by blockading this reconsolidation process using pharmac...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meir Drexler S,Merz CJ,Hamacher-Dang TC,Marquardt V,Fritsch N,Otto T,Wolf OT

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:The acoustic startle reflex (ASR) in rats is attenuated by a light paired with food or, in humans, by "pleasant" pictures. Rats were trained to barpress for lateral hypothalamus (LH) stimulation. ASR amplitudes were then measured at 4 intensities, with or without a light. Control rats that did not receive brain-stimul...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Steidl S,Li L,Yeomans JS

更新日期：2001-06-01 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 effects of postingestive feedback on the value of intraoral sucrose and lateral hypothalamic (LH) stimulation were compared. Rats chose between a fixed LH stimulation train or a compound reward composed of the same stimulation train and an oral infusion of 1 M sucrose. The rats preferred the compound reward when p...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Conover KL,Shizgal P

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habituation has traditionally been considered a nonassociative form of learning. However, recent research suggests that retention of this nonassociative form of learning may be aided by associations formed during training. An example of this is context conditioning, in which animals that are trained and tested in the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rankin CH

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Although mnemonic interpretations of hippocampal function in people have been readily accepted for many years, similar interpretations of hippocampal function in animals have received a number of challenges. This article reviews two of these challenges, shows how they were resolved in favor of some kind of mnemonic in...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Olton DS,Wible CG,Shapiro ML

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only the function relating the required pulse frequency to the interburst interval discriminates between the priming effect and the rewarding effect: Separating two short bursts of pulses has no effect on their combined rewarding effect, but it enhances their priming effect. There are significant nonscalar differences...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sax L,Gallistel CR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms in most mammals are synchronized to local time by phase and period resetting actions of daily light-dark cycles on a retino-recipient, light-entrainable circadian pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN receives input from other brain regions, some of which mediate the phase and period ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Webb IC,Antle MC,Mistlberger RE

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:We used the tail-flick response of rats to study the role of opioid receptors in illness-induced hyperalgesia. An intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride (LiCl) produced hyperalgesia that was blocked in a dose-dependent manner by subcutaneous injection of the opioid antagonist naloxone. Neither hyperalgesia nor ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McNally GP,Johnston IN,Westbrook RF

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:To examine whether the hippocampus is required for memory for unique experiences independent of their spatial or temporal context, the authors devised a novel task that requires rats to remember odor-reward associations formed within a single training trial. Unlike previous tests of 1-trial memory, in this task new as...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wood ER,Agster KM,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:In Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning, the conditioned response (CR) is highly lateralized to the eye to which the unconditioned stimulus (US) has been directed. However, the initial conditioning of one eye can facilitate subsequent conditioning of the other eye, a phenomenon known as the intereye transfer (IET) effect. ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee T,Kim JJ,Wagner AR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses an operant, behavioral model to assess the daily changes in the decay rate of short-term memory, motivation, and motor ability in rats exposed to chronic restraint. Restraint decreased reward-related motivation by 50% without altering memory decay rate or motor ability. Moreover, chronic restraint impa...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kleen JK,Sitomer MT,Killeen PR,Conrad CD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological changes in the anterior cingulate cortex are found in subjects with schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These changes are hypothesized to underlie the impairments these individuals show on tasks that require cognitive control. The anterior cingulate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Newman LA,McGaughy J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be caused by genetic or environmental factors. Among environmental factors, perinatal complications are related, such as neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI). Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether HI contributes to the development of characteristics relate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Miguel PM,Schuch CP,Rojas JJ,Carletti JV,Deckmann I,Martinato LH,Pires AV,Bizarro L,Pereira LO

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the hippocampus in associative learning was investigated in 3 experiments with rats as subjects. Hippocampal rats were impaired in the acquisition of conditioned responding both when food was signaled by the insertion of a lever (Experiment 1) and when the presentation of auditory or visual events served a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Good M,Honey RC

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:Male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) form a pair bond with a female partner after mating, and this behavior is regulated by the neuropeptide vasopressin (AVP). The authors report that AVP in the lateral septum is important for pair bond formation. Administration of an AVP V1a receptor antagonist in the lateral se...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Liu Y,Curtis JT,Wang Z

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment was conducted to determine whether the amount of preoperative training influences the effects, on retention, of amygdala lesions induced 30 days after escape training. Rats received 1 or 10 footshock-motivated escape training trials; 30 days later, sham or neurotoxic amygdala lesions were induced. Resu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Parent MB,West M,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parametric manipulations of the task demand were used to examine the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in nonspatial and spatial working memory in rats. Hippocampal lesions produced an immediate and long-lasting impairment of nonspatial working memory in an operant task. The memory deficits increased as the delay i...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wan RQ,Pang K,Olton DS

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor mixture perception can be configural (the mixture is qualitatively different from the components) or elemental (the components are recognizable). Some have argued that configural properties are dependent on chemical similarity and possible overlap at the receptor level. The authors show that a binary mixture in w...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kay LM,Lowry CA,Jacobs HA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamine and stress can sensitize mesolimbic dopamine-related systems. In Pavlovian autoshaping, repeated exposure to uncertainty of reward prediction can enhance motivated sign-tracking or attraction to a discrete reward-predicting cue (lever-conditioned stimulus; CS+), as well as produce cross-sensitization to am...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robinson MJ,Anselme P,Suchomel K,Berridge KC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00