Mediodorsal thalamic lesions and Pavlovian conditioning of heart rate and eyeblink responses in the rabbit.

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：: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：:Monkeys with conjoint bilateral lesions of the hippocampus and amygdala were impaired on four different tests of memory (delayed retention of object discriminations, concurrent discrimination, delayed response, and delayed nonmatching to sample). Because tests involving delays and distractions are known to be especial...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：: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：:The role of thyroid hormones in vertebrate development has been well documented for several decades. As hypothyroidism during critical periods of development can cause defects to the development of every major organ system, including brain, eye, and general morphology, we hypothesized that hypothyroidism would affect ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Reider M,Connaughton VP

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified a population of cells recorded in the postsubiculum and the anterior thalamic nucleus (ATN) that discharge as a function of an animal's head direction (HD) in the horizontal plane. The present experiments monitored HD cell activity when rats were confronted with a situation in which di...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Goodridge JP,Taube JS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial judgment is impaired in Parkinson's disease (PD), with previous research suggesting that disruptions in attention and executive function are likely contributors. If judgment of center places demands on frontal systems, performance on tests of attention/executive function may correlate with extent of bias in PD...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Salazar RD,Moon KLM,Neargarder S,Cronin-Golomb A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decorticated rats are able to engage in play, their play is abnormal in three ways. First, decorticates do not display the normal, age-related shifts in defensive strategies during development. Second, decorticates do not modify their defensive tactics in response to the social identity of their partners. Thi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bell HC,McCaffrey DR,Forgie ML,Kolb B,Pellis SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Estrogens have been shown to rapidly promote male copulatory behaviors with a time-course that suggests rapid signaling events are involved. The present study tested the hypothesis that estrogen acts through a novel Gq protein-coupled membrane estrogen receptor (ER). Thus, either estradiol (E2), STX (a diphenylacrylam...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kaufman KR,Kelly MJ,Roselli CE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the effect of lesions of the caudate nucleus or fimbria-fornix on the acquisition of two water maze tasks. In both tasks, two rubber balls with different visual patterns were used as platforms (i.e., cues). The "correct" cue was attached to a submerged rectangular platform and could be mount...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Packard MG,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative influence of morphine microinjected into the periaqueductal gray, ventral medulla (nucleus raphé magnus or nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis), or spinal subarachnoid space on the thresholds of responses organized at spinal (spinal motor reflexes, SMRs), medullary (vocalizations elicited during shock, ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Borszcz GS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of habituation have included an increase in postsynaptic inhibition as one possible mechanism underlying response decrement following repetitive stimulus presentation. In this study, the glycine antagonist strychnine (1.0 mg/kg, ip, 10 min pretreatment) was used to investigate the involvement of glycinergic n...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kehne JH,Davis M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in the consolidation of an association between an olfactory stimulus and footshock was investigated with a reversible lesion technique of post-training intra-BLA infusions of tetrodotoxin. Rats receiving tetrodotoxin infusions following paired odor-shock presentations spent m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kilpatrick L,Cahill L

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Neuromuscular impairment by ethanol likely involves complex effects on balance, gait, muscle strength, and other features of motor coordination. The present experiments showed that relative sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairment in serotonin 1B (5-HT(1B)) null mutant and control mice was task dependent. We fo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Boehm SL 2nd,Schafer GL,Phillips TJ,Browman KE,Crabbe JC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms in most mammals are synchronized to local time by phase and period resetting actions of daily light-dark cycles on a retino-recipient, light-entrainable circadian pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN receives input from other brain regions, some of which mediate the phase and period ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Webb IC,Antle MC,Mistlberger RE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of postnatal tactile stimulation (TS) on juvenile behavior, adult amphetamine (AMPH) sensitization, and the interaction of TS and AMPH on prefrontal cortical (PFC) thickness and striatum size. Pups received TS by stroking daily with a feather duster from birth till weaning and were t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Muhammad A,Hossain S,Pellis SM,Kolb B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on work done in animal models showing that autism-like symptoms are ameliorated following exposure to an enriched sensorimotor environment, we attempted to develop a comparable therapy for children with autism. In an initial randomized controlled trial, children with autism who received sensorimotor enrichment a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Woo CC,Donnelly JH,Steinberg-Epstein R,Leon M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social signals play a primary role in regulating social relationships among male mice. The present series of experiments investigated the neural mechanisms underlying an induction of amicable cues that facilitate social approach in male mice of the C57BL/6 (B6) and BALB/c (BALB) strains. Male mice exhibit approach beh...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Arakawa H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Withdrawal from an escalating-dose, bingelike regimen of cocaine administration in rats produced significantly depressed levels of locomotor activity during the nocturnal portion of the day-night cycle. This effect was observed during the first 48 hr of testing. Extracellular single-unit recordings of ventral tegmenta...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Koeltzow TE,White FJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:A unilateral microinjection of morphine into the amygdala impaired fear conditioning to both a conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with shock and the context where shock occurred, whereas a microinjection of morphine into the nucleus accumbens (NA) spared fear conditioning to the CS but impaired, in a dose-dependent and ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Westbrook RF,Good AJ,Kiernan MJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donoghue and Wise (1982) identified an area AGm in the rat that they take to be a nonprimary motor area. In the present experiments, therefore, this area was removed bilaterally in rats. The animals were poor at relearning a visual conditional motor task but were able to learn spatial delayed alternation as rapidly as...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Passingham RE,Myers C,Rawlins N,Lightfoot V,Fearn S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the role of the endogenous opioid system in maternal and affiliative behavior of group-living rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) mothers with a history of abusive parenting. Eighteen mothers received an injection of the opioid antagonist naltrexone or saline for 5 days per week for the first 4 wee...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Graves FC,Wallen K,Maestripieri D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00