Ibotenic acid-induced lesions of the medial zona incerta decrease lordosis behavior in the female rat.

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：:This experiment was conducted to determine whether the amount of preoperative training influences the effects, on retention, of amygdala lesions induced 30 days after escape training. Rats received 1 or 10 footshock-motivated escape training trials; 30 days later, sham or neurotoxic amygdala lesions were induced. Resu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Parent MB,West M,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampal formation (comprising the hippocampus proper, the dentate gyrus, and the subiculum) has been repeatedly implicated in information storage models of the mammalian brain. The precise nature of the hippocampal role in the storage of information has, however, remained elusive. Here it is proposed that the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Teyler TJ,DiScenna P

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:Mapping studies were conducted to delineate the site(s) of action for the arousal-enhancing actions of norepinephrine (NE) within the basal forebrain region encompassing the medial preoptic area (MPOA) and the substantia innominata (SI). Varying doses of NE, the beta-agonist, isoproterenol, or the alpha1-agonist, phen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Berridge CW,O'Neill J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical conditioning of the rabbit eyeblink response was used to study the effects of cerebellar lesions on performance in animals trained with low-intensity unconditioned stimuli (US). Animals were trained with 1 of 2 low-intensity corneal-airpuff USs paired with a tone-conditioned stimulus. This study confirms ear...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ivkovich D,Lockard JM,Thompson RF

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial division of the medial geniculate body (MGm) projects to the lateral amygdala and the upper layer of auditory cortex and develops physiological plasticity rapidly during classical conditioning. The effects of learning on frequency receptive fields (RFs) in the MGm of the guinea pig have been determined. Cla...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Edeline JM,Weinberger NM

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：: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：:This review focuses on research on both the neural substrate of maternal responsiveness and on the physiological, behavioral, and motivational adaptations to the maternal state. The female's response to her young is presented as a model motivational system and the mechanisms and neural circuitry through which the medi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Numan M,Woodside B

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Behavioral changes induced by inescapable shock were examined in six strains of mice. Exposure to shock provoked time-dependent disturbances of shuttle escape performance. In some strains the shock treatment did not affect escape performance, whereas in others profound performance deficits were evident. The inescapabl...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shanks N,Anisman H

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the effects of the competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist D-APV (D-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate) on rats' ability to acquire potentiated aversions to the odor element of a taste-odor compound. In Experiment 1, pretreatment with D-APV (2.5 micrograms/side icv) caused stereospecific d...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Willner J,Gallagher M,Graham PW,Crooks GB Jr

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to explore the lasting effects of a tactile sensitivity enhancement induced by spike insoles on the control of stance in the elderly. Healthy elderly subjects (n = 19, mean age = 68.8) and young adults (n = 17, mean age = 24.3) were instructed to stand or to walk for 5 minutes with...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Palluel E,Olivier I,Nougier V

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idazoxan, an alpha 2 adrenoceptor antagonist (2 mg/kg), enhanced novel object investigation in a holeboard in rats as previously reported (V. Devauges & S. J. Sara, 1990). Two weeks of 10 min/day in 37 degrees C water increased dopamine-beta-hydroxylase staining density in the locus coeruleus but did not enhance novel...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mansour AA,Babstock DM,Penney JH,Martin GM,McLean JH,Harley CW

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：: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

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 present experiment monitored bilateral eyelid responses during eyeblink conditioning in rats trained with a unilateral unconditioned stimulus (US). Three groups of rats were used to determine if cross-modal savings occurs when the location of the US is switched from one eye to the other. Rats in each group first r...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Campolattaro MM,Buss EW,Freeman JH

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats implanted with cannula tips placed above the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) were trained to obtain food pellets placed in 2 arms of a Y maze and then given a footshock in 1 arm of the maze. The rats then received bilateral injections of lidocaine or buffer into the NTS and peripheral injections of saline or ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Williams CL,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the role of the cerebellum in sustained attention, the authors tested lurcher, wildtype, and lurcher chimeric mice with zero, normal, and variable numbers of Purkinje cells, respectively, in a previously validated task of sustained attention. Results indicate that lurcher mice had a deficit in performance l...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martin LA,Goldowitz D,Mittleman G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relations between sleep and memory were examined as a function of aging in rats. Sleep (24 hr), passive avoidance retention, and choline acetyltransferase (CAT) activity were assessed in 3 age-groups (6, 15, and 24 months old). Age-related alterations were evident in sleep, memory, and cortical and striatal CAT activi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stone WS,Altman HJ,Berman RF,Caldwell DF,Kilbey MM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial preoptic area (mPOA) is a key site for the dopaminergic enhancement of male sexual behavior. Dopamine release increases in the rat mPOA with mating, supporting the critical stimulatory role played by preoptic dopamine on male sexual behavior. However, it has been questioned whether dopamine is specifically ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kleitz-Nelson HK,Dominguez JM,Cornil CA,Ball GF

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：: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：: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

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：:The defensive withdrawal reflex of the mantle organs (gill, siphon, and mantle shelf) of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica has been the subject of numerous studies investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning. In behavioral experiments, the reflex has been monitored by means of two different re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stopfer M,Carew TJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 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