Two functional serotonin polymorphisms moderate the effect of food reinforcement on BMI.

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：:In order to measure tinnitus induced by sodium salicylate injections, 84 pigmented rats, distributed among 14 groups in five experiments, were used in a conditioned suppression paradigm. In Experiment 1, all groups were trained with a conditioned stimulus (CS) consisting of the offset of a continuous background noise....

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jastreboff PJ,Brennan JF,Coleman JK,Sasaki CT

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：:An influential view in the field of spatial cognition is that an obligatory geometric module constrains spatial learning and memory. In this issue, P. M. Jones, J. M. Pearce, V. J. Davies, M. A. Good, and A. McGregor (2007) showed that learning based on the geometry, or shape, of the environment requires the hippocamp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dudchenko PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In infant rats, administration of the alpha2 adrenoceptor agonist clonidine simultaneously evokes ultrasound production and bradycardia. In this study the authors examined in 8-day-old rats whether these 2 responses to clonidine are causally related. In Experiment 1 pups were pretreated with saline or prenalterol (0.1...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Blumberg MS,Kreber LA,Sokoloff G,Kent KJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Rats were injected with naloxone hydrochloride (3 mg/kg) or saline and subjected to preshock or no preshock prior to receiving a test shock that elicited defensive burying. Preshock was administered in a context different from, or the same as, that in which the test shock was delivered. The combination of naloxone and...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Whiteside DA,Devenport LD

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relative permanence of dendritic alterations induced by postweaning housing conditions, dendritic field parameters in the occipital cortex were compared among rats that had spent 30 days, beginning at 23-25 days of age, in a "superenriched" environment, rats that had the same treatment followed by 30 day...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Camel JE,Withers GS,Greenough WT

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Hindlimb flexion induced by direct stimulation of the hindlimb has been observed subsequent to spinal section if an appropriate time interval was allowed to elapse between onset of flexion and spinal cord section. The present series of experiments was conducted to test the possibility that asymmetry persistence is a p...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Steinmetz JE,Beggs AL,Lupica CR,Patterson MM

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The context preexposure facilitation effect (CPFE) is a variant of contextual fear conditioning in which context learning, context-shock association, and expression of context conditioning occur in 3 separate phases-preexposure, training, and testing. During the preexposure phase, the CPFE is disrupted by hippocampal ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robinson-Drummer PA,Dokovna LB,Heroux NA,Stanton ME

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of acoustic startle amplitude by a 10-ms tone prepulse (S1) was evaluated as a function of the interstimulus interval (ISI) between the onset of S1 and the onset of the startle-evoking stimulus (S2). Subjects were normal-hearing 1-month-old C57BL/6J (C57) mice and CBA/CaJ mice and 5-month-old C57 mice wit...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Willott JF,Carlson S

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Previous research conducted in monkeys and rats has established that the perirhinal cortex is critically involved in object- or stimulus-recognition memory, whereas other research suggests this region may contribute to memory for object discriminations. These findings do not rule out the possibility that the perirhina...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wiig KA,Burwell RD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) in stimulus-reward learning was assessed by testing the effects of PPTg lesions on performance in visual autoshaping and conditioned reinforcement (CRf) paradigms. Rats with PPTg lesions were unable to learn an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) an...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Inglis WL,Olmstead MC,Robbins TW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rewarding properties of centrally administered ethanol (EtOH) were examined using a conditioned place preference (CPP) test. Male rats subjected to bilateral intracerebroventricular (icv) infusions of EtOH (0-240 nmol) produced a dose-dependent preference for the drug-paired environment that was potentiated by con...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Walker BM,Ettenberg A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pavlovian overshadowing, a stimulus that predicts a biologically important event reduces conditioning to another, equally predictive stimulus. We tested the effects of an opioid antagonist and dopamine agonist on the ability of a salient white noise to overshadow a less salient light. Rats were conditioned to fear ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zelikowsky M,Fanselow MS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine a possible interaction between thyroxine and estradiol in the control of feeding, 14 ovariectomized adult female rats were given daily injections of 9.8 micrograms/100 g of body weight of 1-thyroxine (T). Another 14 rats received 0.15 ml of saline (S) subcutaneously each day, and food intake was me...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young JK

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have previously demonstrated that Purkinje cell-degeneration (pcd) mutant mice are impaired in eyeblink conditioning (L. Chen et al., 1996a). The present study addresses the following 3 questions: (a) whether pcd mice perceive the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli as well as the wild-type mice, (b) whe...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chen L,Bao S,Thompson RF

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Effects of the ingestion of protein and carbohydrate conditioned a preference for one size of chow particle over another, which was triggered by need for a specific nutrient. This learned elicitation of nutrient-specific dietary selection was not changed by injection of dl-fenfluramine HCl (2.5 mg/kg). This indicates ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Booth DA,Baker BJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion studies have shown that the avian hippocampus plays a crucial role in homing pigeon (Columba livia) navigation. Using the expression of the immediate early gene protein ZENK in intact pigeons, the authors found regional variation in hippocampal activation as a consequence of homing and, necessarily, the behavio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shimizu T,Bowers AN,Budzynski CA,Kahn MC,Bingman VP

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrolytic microlesions aimed at the dorsomedial portion of the ventromedial nucleus (VMN) of the hypothalamus were generated, and effects on copulation, 50-kHz vocalizations, scent marking, and sexual motivation were measured. Male rats were tested before and after lesions, after castration, and after testosterone ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Harding SM,McGinnis MY

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the hippocampus is required for memory for unique experiences independent of their spatial or temporal context, the authors devised a novel task that requires rats to remember odor-reward associations formed within a single training trial. Unlike previous tests of 1-trial memory, in this task new as...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wood ER,Agster KM,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

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：:The use of food products designed to mimic the sensory properties of sweet and fat while providing fewer calories has been promoted as a method for reducing food intake and body weight. However, such products may interfere with a learned relationship between the sensory properties of food and the caloric consequences ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Swithers SE,Ogden SB,Davidson TL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory depends on communication between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex (PFC); however, the neural circuitry that mediates interactions between these brain areas has not been well characterized. Two candidate structures are the thalamic reuniens (RE) and rhomboid (Rh) nuclei, which are reciprocally c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hallock HL,Wang A,Shaw CL,Griffin AL

更新日期：2013-12-01 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