Association of sleep parameters and memory in intact old rats and young rats with lesions in the nucleus basalis magnocellularis.

abstract：:Previous work has demonstrated an important role for adrenergic receptors in memory processes in fear and drug conditioning paradigms. Recent studies have also demonstrated alterations in extinction in these paradigms using drug treatments targeting beta- and alpha2-adrenergic receptors, but little is known about the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bernardi RE,Lattal KM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepines are known to reduce learning and memory performance, presumably through their facilitation of GABAergic neurotransmission, but the effects of these drugs specifically on memory for emotional material has not been addressed in humans. The effects of a benzodiazepine (triazolam, 0.25 mg) on nonincidental...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buchanan TW,Karafin MS,Adolphs R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiloride-sensitive sodium channels in taste buds appear to play a key role in the response to NaCl stimulation, at least in adult rats. The researchers examined whether neonatal rats, which display an exaggerated preference for hypertonic NaCl solutions, lack functional amiloride-sensitive sodium channels. NaCl intak...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sollars SI,Bernstein IL

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Six females rats were trained to lever press under a free operant shock-postponement schedule. Each subject had a yoked control which received shock whenever the subject did. The shock-postponement interval (R-S) was varied from 5, 10, 20, 40, to 80 s over blocks of sessions. Corticosteroid levels were taken prior to ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Herrmann TF,Hurwitz HM,Levine S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated male murine accessory sex glands as potential sources of a urinary aggression-promoting chemosignal. Experiments 1-4 were designed to determine whether the removal of the following glands would eliminate voided urine chemosignal activity: vesicular and coagulating glands, Cowper's gland,...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ingersoll DW,Morley KT,Benvenga M,Hands C

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has indicated that rearing in an enriched environment may promote self-control in an impulsive choice task. To further assess the effects of rearing environment on impulsivity, 2 experiments examined locomotor activity, impulsive action, impulsive choice, and different aspects of reward sensitivity a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kirkpatrick K,Marshall AT,Clarke J,Cain ME

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin-immunoreactive (AVP-ir) cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) and medial amygdaloid nucleus (MA) and their AVP-ir projections to the lateral septum were studied in monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and promiscuous meadow voles (M. pennsylvanicus). A sexually dimorphic AVP-ir ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wang Z

更新日期：1995-04-01 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 spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) has been suggested as a possible animal model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Reductions in the volume of the cerebellum and impairments in cerebellar-dependent eyeblink conditioning have been observed in ADHD, prompting investigation into whether SHRs also ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chess AC,Green JT

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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 present study examined the effects of lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) on the acquisition of a new response with conditioned reinforcement (CR) and its potentiation by intra-accumbens infusions of d-amphetamine (1, 3, 10, and 20 microg/microl). Rats were trained to associate a light-plus-noise ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robledo P,Robbins TW,Everitt BJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of cerebrospinal concentrations of oxytocin (OT) in intact and peridural-anesthetized ewes showed that central release of OT during parturition is inhibited by this anesthesia. Also, observations of maternal behavior and attraction to amniotic fluid (AF) in inexperienced peridural-anesthetized parturient e...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lévy F,Kendrick KM,Keverne EB,Piketty V,Poindron P

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rats that were isolated from the mother and nest for 1 hr per day from Postnatal Day 2 to 9 were studied. Controls consisted of handled littermates as well as separate litters that were never handled. As adults, animals were given either a pharmacological challenge (1.0 or 2.0 mg/kg amphetamine) or an environmen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kehoe P,Shoemaker WJ,Triano L,Callahan M,Rappolt G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lurcher mutant (+/Lc) mice exhibit a massive loss of neurons in the cerebellar cortex and in the inferior olivary nucleus while deep cerebellar nuclei are essentially intact. To discriminate the respective participation of the cerebellar cortex and deep structures in learning and memory, the authors subjected 3- to 6-...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Caston J,Vasseur F,Delhaye-Bouchaud N,Mariani J

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Rats with unilateral dopamine (DA) depletion (hemiParkinson analogue rats) are impaired in using the contralateral (bad) limbs for skilled movements and for postural adjustments and compensate by using their good limbs in novel ways. The present study consisted of a reaching task in which compensatory adjustments usin...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Miklyaeva EI,Whishaw IQ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research (Grau, 1987a, 1987b) suggests that forebrain systems play an essential role in the hypoalgesia observed after brief shock but not long shock. Additional research has shown that pentobarbital anesthesia and decerebration block the hypoalgesia observed after 3 brief (0.75-s) shocks but not the hypoalge...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meagher MW,Grau JW,King RA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common assumption that perceptual sensitivities are related to neural representations of sensory stimuli has seldom been directly demonstrated. The authors analyzed the similarity of spike trains evoked by complex sounds in the rat auditory cortex and related cortical responses to performance in an auditory task. ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Orduña I,Mercado E 3rd,Gluck MA,Merzenich MM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was prompted by reports of functionally normal humans with micrencephaly or cortical hypoplasia. Methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) treatment, which induces micrencephaly in rats, was administered by injection (20 mg/kg) on gestational day 14. Prior to weaning and into adulthood, offspring were assessed on m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ferguson SA,Racey FD,Paule MG,Holson RR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of fetal rats was examined on Day 19 of gestation with procedures that enabled chemical stimulation and direct observation of fetuses. Rat fetuses are sensitive to both tactile stroking and intraoral infusion of chemical solutions, but the pattern and amount of activity depend upon the modality of stimula...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Smotherman WP,Robinson SR

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have pointed to vulnerability to stress and stress-related pathologies at different timepoints during an individual's life span. These sensitive windows are usually during periods of neural development, such as embryogenesis, infancy, and adolescence. It is critical to understand how neural circuitry may ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Argue KJ,Neckameyer WS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory streaming describes a percept in which a sequential series of sounds either is segregated into different streams or is integrated into one stream based on differences in their spectral or temporal characteristics. This phenomenon has been analyzed in human subjects (psychophysics) and European starlings (neur...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dolležal LV,Itatani N,Günther S,Klump GM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) and sham-operated rats were trained in either a simple discrimination paradigm assessing simple association learning or a negative patterning paradigm assessing configural association learning. In the simple discrimination task, rats were r...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Butt AE,Noble MM,Rogers JL,Rea TE

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：: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：:The influence of water deprivation on hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), theta rhythm, and contextual fear conditioning in rats was examined. In Experiment 1, hippocampal EEG activity and perforant path LTP were assessed in pentobarbital-anesthetized rats. Water deprivation did not affect baseline cell excitabi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Maren S,DeCola JP,Swain RA,Fanselow MS,Thompson RF

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single unit activity was recorded from the rat hippocampal CA1 and CA3 subfields, dentate gyrus (DG), entorhinal cortex (EC), subicular complex (SB), motor cortex (MC), prefrontal cortex (PFC), and dorsomedial thalamus (DMT) during performance of a continuous non-matching-to-sample task. The rats made go and no-go res...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sakurai Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00