Sex differences in brain and personality correlates of the ability to identify popular word associations.

abstract：:The patterns of intake of liquid diet and water were recorded in diet-deprived rats with septal lesions and neurologically intact controls during the first hour of diet access. The occurrences of grooming, resting/sleeping, and exploring were also recorded. Both groups of rats consumed similar amounts of diet in one m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Flynn FW,Evey LA,Steele TL,Mitchell JC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments suggested that the temporal pattern of a taste response in the brain can convey meaningful information. In Experiment 1, rats avoided lick-contingent electrical stimulation of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS; the first synaptic relay for taste) when the temporal pattern of pulses mimicked the el...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Di Lorenzo PM,Hallock RM,Kennedy DP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available evidence indicates that common genes influence alcohol and tobacco abuse in humans. The studies reported here used mouse models to evaluate the hypothesis that genetically determined variability in the alpha4beta2* nicotinic receptor modulates genetically determined variability in the intake of both nicotine...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Butt CM,King NM,Hutton SR,Collins AC,Stitzel JA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of peripherally administered leucine-enkephalin on the acquisition and retention of active avoidance behavior was studied in mice. Mice received 4 training trials on Day 1, 24 test trials on Day 2, and 10 test trials on Day 5. Leucine-enkephalin impaired the aquisition of avoidance behavior when administer...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dana RC,Martinez JL Jr

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:Repeated exposure to female-related stimuli causes functional alterations in the neural circuitry mediating male rat sexual behavior. In a study published in the current issue of this journal, G. M. Lagoda, J. W. Muschamp, A. Vigdorchik, and E. M. Hull (2004) provide interesting new evidence as to the mechanisms respo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Coolen LM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA)-containing neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are thought to play an important role in fear motivation. The primary objective of the present study was to determine the connection between DA D2, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)A, and benzodiazepine receptors in the VTA and footshock-associated emot...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gifkins A,Greba Q,Kokkinidis L

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four experiments were conducted in rats within 2 hr of cesarean delivery to assess antinociception at birth and its possible opioid bases. Morphine antinociception was established in a dose-dependent fashion (0.0625-5.0 mg/kg bw). Analgesia was naloxone (1.0 mg/kg) reversible. In succeeding experiments, antinociceptio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Blass EM,Jackson AM,Smotherman WP

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Effects of posttraining epinephrine (EPI) on retention of a massed (1 session, 30 trials) 2-way active avoidance task in rats were studied. The rats received an injection (ip) of 0.05 mg/kg EPI, 0.01 mg/kg EPI, or distilled water immediately after the training session. EPI did not improve retention 24 hr after the tra...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Costa-Miserachs D,Portell-Cortés I,Aldavert-Vera L,Torras-García M,Morgado-Bernal I

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:Female rats drink more 3% NaCl solution than do males, both when they need sodium (need-induced sodium intake or sodium appetite) and when they do not (need-free sodium intake). The sexual dimorphism of sodium intake is a secondary sexual characteristic because after castration at 1 day of age male rats drank 3% NaCl ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chow SY,Sakai RR,Witcher JA,Adler NT,Epstein AN

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Sustained potential shifts (SPS) were recorded for 10 s from the surface of the optic tectum of toads presented with live prey and moving artificial prey stimuli. On the anterior tectal surface, a negative SPS was followed by a positive wave; the converse was true for the posterior tectum. Some animals were immobilize...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Laming PR,Ocherashvili IV,Nicol AU,Roughan JV,Laming BA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments are reported whose purpose was to examine the effect of the cholinergic antagonist atropine on the acquisition of different learning tasks known to be sensitive or insensitive to impairment by hippocampal lesions; on the retention of performance acquired in the absence of the drug; and on memory cons...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hagan JJ,Tweedie F,Morris RG

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research emphasized the impact of traumatic brain injury on cholinergic systems and associated cognitive functions. Here we addressed the converse question: Because of the available evidence indicating cognitive and neuronal vulnerabilities in humans expressing low-capacity cholinergic systems or with declini...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Koshy Cherian A,Tronson NC,Parikh V,Kucinski A,Blakely RD,Sarter M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young and aged animals were tested on a spatial alternation task that consisted of two interleaved components: (1) an "outbound" or alternation component (working memory) and (2) an "inbound" component, requiring the animal to remember to return to a central location in space (spatial memory). In the present study, ag...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kapellusch AJ,Lester AW,Schwartz BA,Smith AC,Barnes CA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past work has demonstrated robust brain changes in cholecystokinin (CCK-8) following social defeat. Here the authors analyzed brain regional, CCK-8, substance P, corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), and neuropeptide Y levels in adult male Long-Evans rats defeated in a resident-intruder social aggression paradigm, as ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Panksepp J,Burgdorf J,Beinfeld MC,Kroes RA,Moskal JR

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:This study examined the role of the amygdala in mediating the effects of glucocorticoids on spatial memory in rats. Adrenalectomy (ADX) induced 4-5 days prior to training impaired memory in a water-maze spatial task. This effect was reversed by a posttraining injection of dexamethasone (0.3 mg/kg sc) but not by cortic...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Roozendaal B,Portillo-Marquez G,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the thalamus in memory is potentially very complex. However, most studies on the memory impairments of thalamic lesions have focused on retrospective memory, rarely on prospective memory. To explore the effect of thalamic lesions on event-based prospective memory (EBPM) and time-based prospective memory (T...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Cheng H,Tian Y,Hu P,Wang J,Wang K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies using moveable electrodes to map the substrate for brain stimulation reward, reward effectiveness was estimated by varying either the current or the number of pulses per train. The resulting relationship between reward effectiveness and stimulation site is independent of the fixed parameter only if...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Forgie ML,Shizgal P

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Two experiments were conducted in which adrenalectomized male Sprague-Dawley rats were maintained ad lib on distilled water, 3% saline, and sodium-free food. In Experiment 1, 45 rats were given 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,000 micrograms/kg/day desoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) im for 5 days to determine the dose of DO...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dalhouse AD,Langford HG,Walsh D,Barnes T

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cholecystokinin (CCK) in food intake was investigated in rats by using BIM-18216, a novel CCK receptor antagonist. In rats fed 6 hr/day, BIM-18216 antagonized the reduction of food intake induced by exogenous CCK octapeptide (CCK-8; 4 micrograms/kg) in a dose-dependent manner and had a maximum effect at 1 ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Laferrere B,Nguyen M,Bonhomme G,Legall A,Basdevant A,Guy-Grand B

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to a running wheel combined with restricted feeding produced body weight loss at an equivalent rate in male and female litter-mate rats (Experiment 1). Thus, despite weighing less and running more, females were not more vulnerable to this procedure. When factors influencing weight loss were varied, no sex diffe...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Boakes RA,Mills KJ,Single JP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The defensive withdrawal reflex of the mantle organs (gill, siphon, and mantle shelf) of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica has been the subject of numerous studies investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning. In behavioral experiments, the reflex has been monitored by means of two different re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stopfer M,Carew TJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:Neural correlates of associative memory and "forgetting" were observed 1, 6, and 14 days after acquisition of a conditioned response (CR) in the marine snail Hermissenda. Behavioral expression of a light-rotation association, as indexed by contraction of the animal's foot in response to light, dissipated throughout th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Matzel LD,Collin C,Alkon DL

更新日期：1992-12-01 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