Lack of task specificity and absence of posttraining effects of atropine on learning.

abstract：:Biological markers for acquisition and extinction of fear conditioning were studied in 40 individuals selected for displaying either good or poor acquisition of fear conditioning. as estimated by the skin conductance response. Participants with a short serotonin transporter (5-HTT) promoter allele or low monoamine oxi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Garpenstrand H,Annas P,Ekblom J,Oreland L,Fredrikson M

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Repeated administration of apomorphine leads to a context-dependent pecking response sensitization. Previously sensitized pigeons (Columba livia) challenged with saline in the same context show a conditioned response (CR). The authors studied the effects of intrastriatal injections of the dopamine (D(1)) antagonist SC...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Acerbo MJ,Delius JD

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that male mammals have better spatial ability than females. A large number of evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain these differences, but few species have been tested. The authors critically review the proposed evolutionary explanations for sex differences in spatial cognition an...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jones CM,Braithwaite VA,Healy SD

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:For 5 days, rats were exposed to shocks that were signalled by a light 0, 33, 66, or 100% of the time. Basal hormone levels and responses to a light-shock pair were measured daily. Greater predictability was associated with higher basal plasma corticosterone and norepinephrine levels indicative of chronic stress. Habi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pitman DL,Natelson BH,Ottenweller JE,McCarty R,Pritzel T,Tapp WN

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible modulatory role of motor cortex in classical conditioning of the eyeblink response was examined by ablating anterior neocortex in rabbits and training them with an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) and an airpuff unconditioned stimulus (US) in either a delay (Experiment 1) or a trace (Experiment 2) condi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ivkovich D,Thompson RF

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to elderly humans, aged Long-Evans rats exhibit individual differences in performance on tasks that critically depend on the medial temporal lobe memory system. Although reduced memory performance is common, close to half of aged rats in this outbred rodent population perform within the range of young subjects...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Haberman RP,Monasterio A,Branch A,Gallagher M

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：: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：:To determine whether dopamine signaling in the dorsal striatum is sufficient for performance of goal-directed behaviors, local dopamine production was restored in the dorsal striatum of dopamine-deficient (DD) mice through viral-mediated gene therapy. Virally rescued DD (vrDD) mice were tested for learning of an appet...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robinson S,Sotak BN,During MJ,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of intense emotional learning on the sleep-wake state-specific electroencephalographic (EEG) activities of the basolateral (BLA) and central (CeA) nuclei of the amygdala. Rats were trained on a passive-avoidance learning (PAL) protocol that was followed by 6 hr of undisturbed polygraphi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mavanji V,Siwek DF,Patterson EH,Spoley EE,Datta S

更新日期：2003-08-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Neuronal recruitment in the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) hippocampus occurs at a higher rate in the fall than at other times of the year. As a means of determining whether this increase in recruitment results from greater neuron production, chickadees were caught in the wild between October and March ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hoshooley JS,Sherry DF

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Highly developed odor learning was shown in the terrestrial slug Limax maximus. In addition, several key cellular elements of the neural network that controls ingestive feeding have been identified. The results of 3 experiments demonstrate an interaction between odor input and ingestive feeding in that olfactory stimu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sahley CL,Martin KA,Gelperin A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high level of dopaminergic activation such as that produced by a high dose of amphetamine suppresses eating, whereas a low level such as that produced by a low dose can have the opposite effect. Like a high dose of amphetamine, a high level of wheel running also suppresses eating. It was hypothesized that this suppr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lett BT,Grant VL,Gaborko LL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition and performance of a self-paced test of spatial divided attention linked with frontal cortex function were assessed in postpubertal (> 60 days) normal or gonadectomized male and female rats. Males were more accurate at detecting relatively brief visual stimuli than females, but this difference was elim...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jentsch JD,Taylor JR

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Previous studies have found that in mature animals habituation is context-specific in some species but not in others. Given the mixed evidence present in the literature, we decided to explore whether habituation is context-specific in newborn chicks. The results showed that 3 days after hatching, chicks were capable o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chiandetti C,Turatto M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In male rats with food and water freely available, the specific dopamine D2 antagonist YM-09151-2 had little effect on total food or water intake across a 24-hr period. However, it produced a substantial dose-related decrease in feeding rate during meals and an enhancement of both meal size and duration. The equivalen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Clifton PG,Rusk IN,Cooper SJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadolescent mice have been shown to be differentially susceptible to the effects of both acute and chronic nicotine exposure on contextual fear learning relative to adults. For this study, we tested the effects of chronic nicotine exposure in preadolescence on adulthood extinction and spontaneous recovery of fear me...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zeid D,Gould TJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While under deep barbiturate anesthesia, rats received a series of 10 classical conditioning trials in which white noise was paired with intramuscular shock. The anesthetized animals received either saline or epinephrine injections prior to the training trials. Independent sets of animals were tested for retention per...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gold PE,Weinberger NM,Sternberg DB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00