Is sexual motivational state linked to dopamine release in the medial preoptic area?

abstract：:This experiment investigated the development of caching behavior and the hippocampus (HF) in postfledging mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli). From Days 35 to 53, the number of seeds stored increased but the proportion recovered did not. Birds that stored and recovered during 3 or more trials had significantly enlar...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Clayton NS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of controls not included in previous studies, evidence is presented for the existence of water-induced central excitatory state (w-CES) from analyses of pure-breeding high- and low-CES lines in the blow fly, Phormia regina. The CES lines differed in base-level responsiveness to distilled water (and to sal...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Tully T,Hirsch J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only the function relating the required pulse frequency to the interburst interval discriminates between the priming effect and the rewarding effect: Separating two short bursts of pulses has no effect on their combined rewarding effect, but it enhances their priming effect. There are significant nonscalar differences...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sax L,Gallistel CR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and nonhuman adolescents have impaired retention of extinction of learned fear, relative to juveniles and adults. It is unknown whether exposure to stress affects extinction differently in adolescents versus adults. These experiments compared the short- and long-term effects of exposure to the stress-related hor...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Den ML,Altmann SR,Richardson R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an effort to advance animal models that mimic the cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease. Rats were trained and repeatedly tested in a spatial delayed matching-to-position paradigm in the water maze, with the location of the submerged platform changing between, but not within, days. After Trial 1 ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： von Linstow Roloff E,Platt B,Riedel G

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrated the efficacy of enriched housing conditions in promoting the behavioral recovery and neuronal survival following subicular lesion in rats. Chemical lesioning of the ventral subiculum impaired the spatial learning performances in rats. The lesion also induced a significant degree of neurodegene...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dhanushkodi A,Bindu B,Raju TR,Kutty BM

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:PDAPP transgenic mice have been shown to develop age dependently much of the cerebral histopathology associated with Alzheimer's disease. PDAPP mice (3-10 months old) were tested in a battery of memory tasks to determine whether they develop memory-behavioral deficits and whether these deficits occur before or after a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dodart JC,Meziane H,Mathis C,Bales KR,Paul SM,Ungerer A

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by lack of paternally derived gene expression from the imprinted gene cluster on human chromosome 15q11-q13. PWS is characterized by severe hypotonia, a failure to thrive in infancy and, on emerging from infancy, evidence of learning disabilities and overeating behavior due to an ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Relkovic D,Humby T,Hagan JJ,Wilkinson LS,Isles AR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent endogenous stimulator of food intake. In addition to stimulating increased food intake, when paired with a novel-flavored solution, NPY produces an aversion to that flavor. Hence, exogenous NPY elicits 2 seemingly opposing behaviors, increased feeding and the formation of a conditioned...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Madden LJ,Seeley RJ,Woods SC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the activity of head direction (HD) cells during performance of a spatial reference memory task on a radial arm maze. Rats were trained to select a maze arm located in a constant position in relation to a salient extramaze visual landmark. HD cell discharge properties remained relatively stable acr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dudchenko PA,Taube JS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have recently shown that attenuation of an external response feedback leads to excessive lever-pressing that is not associated with attempts to collect reward, and they have suggested that this may be an analogue to "unreasonable" excessive behavior characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The pres...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Joel D,Avisar A,Doljansky J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In these experiments we tested the hypothesis that the respiratory events underlying rat pup ultrasonic vocalization (USV) facilitate brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, as proposed by Blumberg and Alberts (1990). Laryngeal denervation or tracheostomy were used to reduce or eliminate laryngeal braking and preven...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hofer MA,Shair HN

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and some nonhuman vertebrates, a sound containing brief silent gaps can be rendered perceptually continuous by inserting noise into the gaps. This so-called "continuity illusion" arises from a phenomenon known as "auditory induction" and results in the perception of complete auditory objects despite fragment...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Baugh AT,Ryan MJ,Bernal XE,Rand AS,Bee MA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is implicated in diverse aspects of behavioral regulation, cognitive control, and memory. However, direct neuropsychological evidence supporting a requirement of this area in functions other than spatial working memory has been scarce. T. L. Moore, S. P. Schettler, R. J. Kill...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Baxter MG

更新日期：2009-04-01 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

abstract：:Fear reactions of rats given bilateral lesions to the septum, hippocampus, or amygdala were compared with those of rats given sham lesions, in 2 animal models of anxiety: the shock-probe burying test and the elevated plus-maze test. Septal lesions produced anxiolytic effects in both tests (i.e., an increase in open-ar...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Treit D,Menard J

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted to determine the effectiveness of strychnine sulfate in attenuating the amnesia induced in mice by small doses of cycloheximide (CYC). Previously, reversal of CYC-induced amnesia catecholamine agonists has been taken as evidence that protein synthesis inhibitors induce amnesia via an inh...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Leccese AP,Quinton EE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the hypothesis that defensive responsiveness induced by threatening stimuli of biological origin is mediated by the action of endogenous corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF). Rats were exposed for 15 min to a large open field containing a small chamber. Twenty-four hours later, rats received intrac...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Takahashi LK,Kalin NH,Baker EW

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:The amygdala is an integrator of affective processing, and a key component of a network regulating social behavior. While decades of lesion studies in nonhuman primates have shown alterations in social interactions after amygdala damage, acute manipulations of the amygdala in primates have been underexplored. We recen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Forcelli PA,Wellman LL,Malkova L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the effects of infusing an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, d-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate(d-APV), on taste-potentiated odor conditioning: a form of learning that is dependent on information processing in 2 sensory modalities. In Experiment 1, rats infused with d-APV were impair...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hatfield T,Gallagher M

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：: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：:The current study examined possible interactions between genetic factors and prolonged drug access by testing the Fischer (F344), Lewis (LEW), and Wistar rat strains in a prolonged access cocaine self-administration (SA) procedure. Before prolonged access, the strains did not differ in breakpoints for food or cocaine ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Freeman KB,Kearns DN,Kohut SJ,Riley AL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that ovarian hormones protect against some of the cognitive deficits associated with aging. Although much of the literature in rodents has focused on hippocampal dependent tasks, studies suggest that tasks dependent on the prefrontal cortex are also influenced by ovarian hormones. The present study ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chisholm NC,Juraska JM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine the development of tolerance to opioids, eight cynomolgus and two rhesus monkeys were trained to press a lever for food reinforcement and then were catheterized so that drugs could be infused. Three doses of hydromorphone and six different interdose intervals were studied. Hydromorphone infusions i...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ternes JW,Ehrman R,O'Brien CP

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Fifty-eight 4-day-old male rats were studied. Peripheral desensitization was induced in 36 rats by sc administration of capsaicin in increasing doses (350, 700, 1,400, 2,100, and 2,800 micrograms) on 5 consecutive days. When adult, 9 treated and 5 control rats were chronically implanted with a lateral intracerebrovent...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dib B

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00