An accessory sex gland aggression-promoting chemosignal in male mice.

abstract：:The authors report an effort to advance animal models that mimic the cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease. Rats were trained and repeatedly tested in a spatial delayed matching-to-position paradigm in the water maze, with the location of the submerged platform changing between, but not within, days. After Trial 1 ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： von Linstow Roloff E,Platt B,Riedel G

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, congenital deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) results in a disorder known as the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Patients with this disorder exhibit a prominent neurobehavioral phenotype that results in part from dysfunction of catecholaminergic systems in the striatum. HPR...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jinnah HA,Gage FH,Friedmann T

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:One indication of receptive behavior of the female leopard frog, Rana pipiens, is absence of a release call during tactile stimulation of the trunk. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) inhibits this call. This experiment demonstrates a different pattern of [14C]2-deoxyglucose concentration in brains of 5 receptive females silence...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Diakow C,Woicyk W,McEachron DL,Adler NT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research has demonstrated that sleep enhances memory for future-relevant information, including memory for information that is salient due to emotion, reward, or knowledge of a later memory test. Although sleep has been shown to prioritize information with any of these characteristics, the present study investig...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bennion KA,Payne JD,Kensinger EA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway rat pups were either handled (H) or undisturbed (nonhandled, NH) in the period between birth and weaning on Day 21. Following weaning, half of the animals in each group were housed socially (Soc), and half were housed in isolation (Isol). At 120-150 days of age, all animals were sacrificed, and the following re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meaney MJ,Aitken DH,Bodnoff SR,Iny LJ,Tatarewicz JE,Sapolsky RM

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food reinforcement, or the motivation to eat, has been associated with increased energy intake, greater body weight, and prospective weight gain. Much of the previous research on the reinforcing value of food has focused on the role of dopamine, but it may be worthwhile to examine genetic polymorphisms in the serotoni...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Carr KA,Lin H,Fletcher KD,Sucheston L,Singh PK,Salis RJ,Erbe RW,Faith MS,Allison DB,Stice E,Epstein LH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reexamined Grigson's reward comparison hypothesis (1997), which claimed to have resolved the paradox of addictive, rewarding drugs manifesting an aversive effect in the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm. Here, the authors compared the conditioned suppression effects of lithium chloride (LiCl) and am...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Huang AC,Hsiao S

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Rhesus monkeys were trained to learn a large series of visuomotor conditional associations, each involving the arbitrary coupling of a visual stimulus with 1 of 3 potentially correct forelimb movements. The monkeys then received bilateral aspiration lesions of either the amygdala plus subjacent cortex or the hippocamp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Murray EA,Wise SP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

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 primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is implicated in diverse aspects of behavioral regulation, cognitive control, and memory. However, direct neuropsychological evidence supporting a requirement of this area in functions other than spatial working memory has been scarce. T. L. Moore, S. P. Schettler, R. J. Kill...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Baxter MG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relations between sleep and memory were examined as a function of aging in rats. Sleep (24 hr), passive avoidance retention, and choline acetyltransferase (CAT) activity were assessed in 3 age-groups (6, 15, and 24 months old). Age-related alterations were evident in sleep, memory, and cortical and striatal CAT activi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stone WS,Altman HJ,Berman RF,Caldwell DF,Kilbey MM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with perirhinal cortex lesions were sequentially trained in a rectangular water tank on a series of 3 visual discriminations, each between mirror-imaged stimuli. When these same discriminations were tested concurrently, the rats were forced to use a configural strategy to solve the problems effectively. There was...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Aggleton JP,Albasser MM,Aggleton DJ,Poirier GL,Pearce JM

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:This study investigated the effect of postnatal tactile stimulation (TS) on juvenile behavior, adult amphetamine (AMPH) sensitization, and the interaction of TS and AMPH on prefrontal cortical (PFC) thickness and striatum size. Pups received TS by stroking daily with a feather duster from birth till weaning and were t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Muhammad A,Hossain S,Pellis SM,Kolb B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interaction may elicit aggression, establish social rank, and be influenced by changes in central dopaminergic activity. In the lizard Anolis carolinensis, a sign stimulus (darkening of postorbital skin or eyespots) inhibits aggressive response from opponents, in part because it forms more rapidly in dominant m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Korzan WJ,Forster GL,Watt MJ,Summers CH

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Activation of memory retrieval after weak learning (WL), during either the short- or intermediate-term stages of memory in day-old chickens, resulted in the strengthening of the memory to levels normally associated with strong learning. Administration of the calcium channel antagonist lanthanum chloride, the glutamate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Summers MJ,Crowe SF,Ng KT

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of a dual runway configuration did not disrupt the successful performance of normal animals, nor did it improve the deficit of septal rats on the Maier three-table spatial integration task. Both groups of animals displayed a preference for the outside runway configuration during exploration. During testin...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Herrmann T,Poucet B,Ellen P

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unilateral microinjection of morphine into the amygdala impaired fear conditioning to both a conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with shock and the context where shock occurred, whereas a microinjection of morphine into the nucleus accumbens (NA) spared fear conditioning to the CS but impaired, in a dose-dependent and ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Westbrook RF,Good AJ,Kiernan MJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:A differentiation was made between dispositional memory and representational memory. A delayed-nonmatching-to-sample task in a T-maze operationalized this distinction. Experimental brain lesions in posterior septum and in prelimbic cortex resulted in amnesia for representational memories. The amnesia ameliorated as a ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Thomas GJ,Spafford PS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advances over the last decade are changing the face of behavioral neuroscience research. Here we review recent work on the use of one such transformative tool in behavioral neuroscience research, chemogenetics (or Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs, DREADDS). As transformative tec...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Smith KS,Bucci DJ,Luikart BW,Mahler SV

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:The basal ganglia and the cerebellum are anatomically and functionally linked to the cerebral cortex through a series of well-established circuits. The disruption of dopaminergic projections in Parkinson's disease (PD) leads to an imbalance within these circuits, leading to motor and cognitive symptoms. The cortico-ce...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martinu K,Monchi O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments examined the sufficiency of pairing an odor with either intrabulbar activation of noradrenergic beta-receptors or pharmacological stimulation of the locus coeruleus to support learned odor preferences in Postnatal Day 6-7 rat pups. The results showed that pups exposed to odor paired with beta-recepto...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sullivan RM,Stackenwalt G,Nasr F,Lemon C,Wilson DA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues associated with drug administration elicit neural activation in circuits involved in cognitive processes and emotional regulation. An important question is whether the neural activation observed is specific to the drug-paired environment or is due to a generalized activation induced by previous drug...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schroeder BE,Kelley AE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mu-opioid receptors in the ventrolateral quadrant midbrain periaqueductal gray (vIPAG) contribute to extinction of conditioned fear. The present experiment studied whether fear extinction could be facilitated by infusions of a peptidase inhibitor that reduces catabolism of vIPAG enkephalins. Rats were trained to fear ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McNally GP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finicky feeding refers to an animal's tendency to become more particular in accepting and choosing food as satiation is approached. We tested the hypothesis that finickiness in the blowfly is related to the balance between internal inhibition, generated by a full crop, and external sensory information, generated by or...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Moss CF,Dethier VG

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00