Maternity: neural mechanisms, motivational processes, and physiological adaptations.

abstract：:Unilateral nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in animals induces contralateral sensorimotor deficits that are like symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Unilateral nigrostriatal dopamine depletion also causes a contralateral deficit in disengagement behavior (e.g., ability to stop an ongoing activity to ori...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Smith ES,Geissler SA,Schallert T,Lee HJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of associative learning in delay (750-ms conditional stimulus [CS], 650-ms interstimulus interval [ISI]), long-delay (1,350-ms CS, 1,250-ms ISI), and trace (750-ms CS, 500-ms trace interval, 1,250-ms ISI) eyeblink conditioning was examined in 5-month-old human infants and adults. Infants and adults showed...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Herbert JS,Eckerman CO,Stanton ME

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：:Rats with perirhinal cortex lesions were sequentially trained in a rectangular water tank on a series of 3 visual discriminations, each between mirror-imaged stimuli. When these same discriminations were tested concurrently, the rats were forced to use a configural strategy to solve the problems effectively. There was...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Aggleton JP,Albasser MM,Aggleton DJ,Poirier GL,Pearce JM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of energy intake depends in part on both memory for prior food intake and internal signals of hunger and satiety. These functions are both mediated by the hippocampus, a brain structure that animal studies have shown to be impaired after maintenance on high fat and refined sugar (HFS) diets. Study 1, using ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Francis HM,Stevenson RJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Pinealectomized lizards (Podarcis sicula) whose locomotor rhythms were recorded in constant temperature (29 degrees C) and darkness were subdivided into 2 groups of hosts: Each belonging to the 1st group (experimentals) received from a donor a pineal gland, and each belonging to the 2nd one (controls) received a piece...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Foà A,Bertolucci C,Marsanich A,Innocenti A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning, the conditioned response (CR) is highly lateralized to the eye to which the unconditioned stimulus (US) has been directed. However, the initial conditioning of one eye can facilitate subsequent conditioning of the other eye, a phenomenon known as the intereye transfer (IET) effect. ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee T,Kim JJ,Wagner AR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether olfactory working memory involves verbal representations or neural images of odor per se remains unclear. This study investigated whether verbal representation influences performance in an olfactory delayed-match-to-sample task and used monorhinal presentation to generate hypotheses as to the underlying anatom...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Yeshurun Y,Dudai Y,Sobel N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finicky feeding refers to an animal's tendency to become more particular in accepting and choosing food as satiation is approached. We tested the hypothesis that finickiness in the blowfly is related to the balance between internal inhibition, generated by a full crop, and external sensory information, generated by or...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Moss CF,Dethier VG

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：: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：:Exercise can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in humans, but therapeutic effects of exercise in an animal model of stress-related mood disorders have yet to be demonstrated. In the current study, the authors investigated the ability of wheel running to reverse a long-lasting interference with shuttle box esca...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Greenwood BN,Strong PV,Dorey AA,Fleshner M

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of postnatal choline supplementation on neurochemical and behavioral parameters in preweanling BALB/cByJ mice. Mouse pups were injected daily subcutaneously with choline chloride (0.85 mM/g body weight) from Postnatal Day (PND) 1 to PND 16. Pups performed a passive ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ricceri L,Berger-Sweeney J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The female steroid hormone 17beta-estradiol enhances synaptic transmission and the magnitude of longterm potentiation (LTP) in adult rodent hippocampal slices. Long-term depression (LTD), another form of synaptic plasticity, occurs more prominently in hippocampal slices from aged rodents. A decrease in LTP has been re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Foy MR,Baudry M,Foy JG,Thompson RF

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat fetuses were exposed to cocaine, lidocaine, or saline on Gestational Day 20 or 21 to provide information about cocaine effects on behavior during prenatal development. Cocaine was administered into the cisterna magna of individual fetal subjects to restrict effects to the CNS. Behavioral effects of cocaine were co...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Simonik DK,Robinson SR,Smotherman WP

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous results from our laboratory have demonstrated that 3-day-old rats given dopamine (DA)-depleting brain lesions are spared the severe behavioral dysfunctions seen after comparable brain damage in adults. This behavioral sparing is accompanied by a sprouting of serotonin (5-HT)-containing neurons in the striatum...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bruno JP,Jackson D,Zigmond MJ,Stricker EM

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:Transecting the corpus callosum of postnatal day (P)1-6 rats disinhibits the production of spindle bursts (SBs) within primary somatosensory cortex (S1), most notably during periods of sleep-related myoclonic twitching. Here we investigated developmental changes in this callosally mediated disinhibition and its associ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Marcano-Reik AJ,Prasad T,Weiner JA,Blumberg MS

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:The authors examined the relationship between hippocampal theta activity and trace eyeblink conditioning. Hippocampal electrophysiological local field potentials were recorded before, during, and after conditioning or explicitly unpaired training sessions in adult male New Zealand White rabbits. As expected, a high re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nokia MS,Penttonen M,Korhonen T,Wikgren J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that in mature animals habituation is context-specific in some species but not in others. Given the mixed evidence present in the literature, we decided to explore whether habituation is context-specific in newborn chicks. The results showed that 3 days after hatching, chicks were capable o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chiandetti C,Turatto M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-benefit decision making is essential for organisms to adapt to their ever-changing environment. Most studies of cost-benefit decision making involve choice conditions in which effort and value are varied simultaneously. This prevents identification of the aspects of cost-benefit decision making that are affected ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bailey MR,Chun E,Schipani E,Balsam PD,Simpson EH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway rat pups were either handled (H) or undisturbed (nonhandled, NH) in the period between birth and weaning on Day 21. Following weaning, half of the animals in each group were housed socially (Soc), and half were housed in isolation (Isol). At 120-150 days of age, all animals were sacrificed, and the following re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meaney MJ,Aitken DH,Bodnoff SR,Iny LJ,Tatarewicz JE,Sapolsky RM

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful concept underlying forms of associative learning governed by the use of a scalar reward signal, with learning taking place if expectations are violated. RL may be assessed using model-based and model-free approaches. Model-based reinforcement learning involves the amygdala, th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zsuga J,Biro K,Papp C,Tajti G,Gesztelyi R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectral sensitivity of the red and the yellow retinal fields of head-fixed pigeons was separately measured for wavelengths between 340 and 640 nm by a behavioral perimetric technique. Within this spectral range the mean spectral sensitivity of both fields was found to be maximal at 584 nm and minimal at the lower...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Remy M,Emmerton J

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:These experiments tested whether nucleus accumbens muscarinic or nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation is required for rats to learn to lever press for sucrose. Muscarinic blockade with scopolamine (1.0 microg/side or 10.0 microg/side), but not nicotinic antagonism with mecamylamine (10.0 microg/side), inhibited...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pratt WE,Kelley AE

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00