Aged rats with intact memory show distinctive recruitment in cortical regions relative to young adults in a cue mismatch task.

abstract：:Microstructural analysis of licking behavior in the rat was conducted (a) to describe in detail the characteristics of benzodiazepine-induced changes in ingestion and (b) to determine if the changes are consistent with an alteration in palatability. The effects of the benzodiazepine receptor (BZR) agonist midazolam (0...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Higgs S,Cooper SJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Chorda tympani nerve (CT) transection (CTX) raises sodium chloride (NaCl) taste detection threshold, but the effect of CT regeneration on NaCl threshold is unknown. This experiment examined whether CT regeneration supports normal NaCl threshold in the rat. Thresholds were measured with a 2-lever operant procedure. Thr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kopka SL,Spector AC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rhesus monkeys, the magnitude of the cochlear response to auditory stimuli (click-evoked otoacoustic emissions, [CEOAEs]) is correlated with seasonal changes in circulating testosterone levels. The present study investigated the association between circulating testosterone and CEOAE production in men. CEOAEs were m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Snihur AW,Hampson E

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Previous studies in Long-Evans rats demonstrated a significant relationship between variation in pup licking/grooming and arched-back nursing (LG-ABN) and offspring development. However, maternal care is dynamic and exhibits significant temporal variation. In the current study, we assessed temporal variation in LG and...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jensen Peña C,Champagne FA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present series of three experiments was concerned with the effects of morphine and the morphine antagonist naloxone on the development of a classical aversive heart rate (HR) conditioned response (CR) to a tone conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with an electric shock unconditioned stimulus (US). In the first study,...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mahalik T,Fitzgerald RD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous findings are discordant regarding the effects of perinatal lesions of Cortical Areas 17 and 18 on visual discrimination learning in cats. Three potential determinants of such sparing were investigated: age at lesion (4 or 181 days), age at testing (3 or 9 months), and stimulus complexity. Age at testing was n...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Cornwell P,Herbein S,Corso C,Eskew R,Warren JM,Payne B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus has been implicated in anxiety, novelty detection, spatial- contextual processing, and hyperactivity. Accordingly, the authors contrasted the role of the dorsal hippocampus (DH) and the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) in an open field task that presents the onset and termination of a bright light gr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Godsil BP,Stefanacci L,Fanselow MS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the role of the cerebellum in sustained attention, the authors tested lurcher, wildtype, and lurcher chimeric mice with zero, normal, and variable numbers of Purkinje cells, respectively, in a previously validated task of sustained attention. Results indicate that lurcher mice had a deficit in performance l...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martin LA,Goldowitz D,Mittleman G

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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 sensitivity of several inbred strains of mice was assessed for ethanol's effects on activity, body temperature, ataxia, balance, and the righting reflex. Genotypic correlations among the mean responses for the strains were estimated as indexes of pleiotropic influences of genes on drug responses. Three major group...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Crabbe JC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to attend to appropriate stimuli, to plan actions and then alter those actions when environmental conditions change, is essential for an organism to thrive. There is increasing evidence that these executive control processes are mediated in part by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR). NMDAR subunits con...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Thompson SM,Josey M,Holmes A,Brigman JL

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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 gustatory rejection response of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), habituates to antifeedant compounds, allowing for the consumption of deterrent yet nontoxic plant materials. In the present study, we demonstrate that habituation to an antifeedant compound (quinine) persists through the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shikano I,Akhtar Y,Isman MB,Rankin CH

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Recent evidence suggests that the amygdaloid central nucleus (ACE) may contribute significantly to Pavlovian fear-conditioned bradycardic responses during the presentation of conditioned emotional stimuli. Because the medial component of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGm) is a major source of input to the region of t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Supple WF Jr,Kapp BS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

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 possibility that female-paced coital behavior induces a reward state of sufficient intensity and duration to induce conditioning was evaluated by the conditioned-place-preference paradigm. Ovariectomized female rats, treated with estradiol benzoate and progesterone, regulated (paced) their coital interactions with...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Paredes RG,Alonso A

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Nondemented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients report problems on nonmotor tasks that depend on visual or visuospatial abilities. In PD, foveal vision is impaired. Experimental studies in humans and monkeys established that foveal processing and visuospatial attention may be linked through saccadic eye movements. Sacca...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bodis-Wollner I,Glazman S,Yerram S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the impact of neonatal injury on adult spinal plasticity in rats. Subjects were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental conditions: (a) hind-paw injury at Postnatal Day (PD) 2, (b) hind-paw injury at PD 5, (c) anesthesia exposure only on PD 2, or (d) anesthesia exposure only...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young EE,Baumbauer KM,Elliot A,Joynes RL

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Fetal and maternal data were monitored serially at 6 gestational ages from 20 to 38 weeks in 195 Peruvian fetuses. Digitized data included fetal heart rate and motor activity, as well as maternal heart rate and electrodermal conductance. Time series analysis evaluated the development of synchrony in 2 streams of fetal...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： DiPietro JA,Caulfield LE,Irizarry RA,Chen P,Merialdi M,Zavaleta N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00