Treatment with a serotonin-depleting regimen of MDMA prevents conditioned place preference to sex in male rats.

abstract：:Previous studies on drug abuse have shown that response to drug-associated cues exist during prolonged abstinence. In succession to previous investigations in our laboratory on morphine dependence and our research on acquisition and expression phases of morphine-conditioned place preference (CPP), in this study we att...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Namvar P,Zarrabian S,Nazari-Serenjeh F,Sadeghzadeh F,Haghparast A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors measured food reinforcement, polymorphisms of the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) and dopamine transporter (DAT1) genes, and laboratory energy intake in 29 obese and 45 nonobese humans 18-40 years old. Food reinforcement was greater in obese than in nonobese individuals, especially in obese individuals with th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Epstein LH,Temple JL,Neaderhiser BJ,Salis RJ,Erbe RW,Leddy JJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 5 days, rats were exposed to shocks that were signalled by a light 0, 33, 66, or 100% of the time. Basal hormone levels and responses to a light-shock pair were measured daily. Greater predictability was associated with higher basal plasma corticosterone and norepinephrine levels indicative of chronic stress. Habi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pitman DL,Natelson BH,Ottenweller JE,McCarty R,Pritzel T,Tapp WN

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cholecystokinin (CCK) in food intake was investigated in rats by using BIM-18216, a novel CCK receptor antagonist. In rats fed 6 hr/day, BIM-18216 antagonized the reduction of food intake induced by exogenous CCK octapeptide (CCK-8; 4 micrograms/kg) in a dose-dependent manner and had a maximum effect at 1 ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Laferrere B,Nguyen M,Bonhomme G,Legall A,Basdevant A,Guy-Grand B

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reward uncertainty is a common characteristic of gambling and may powerfully enhance attraction to gambling-related cues, thus promoting maladaptive gambling behaviors in susceptible individuals. The co-occurrence of gambling disorder with tobacco use disorder (60.4%) suggests a common mechanism for their pathology, a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Russell TI,Robinson MJF

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus monkeys were trained on 2 versions of delayed nonmatching-to-sample, one with multiple pairs of objects and the other with a single pair, to evaluate their ability to remember objects. They then received either bilateral aspiration lesions of the anterior rhinal cortex or bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the am...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Murray EA,Gaffan EA,Flint RW Jr

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats treated chronically with the dopamine agonist quinpirole (0.5 mg/kg, twice weekly x 10) met 5 criteria for performance of compulsive checking. Specifically, in a large open-field with single small objects in 4 of 25 locales, quinpirole rats revisited two places/objects excessively often and rapidly, compared with...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Szechtman H,Sulis W,Eilam D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) facilitates copulation in male rats, and nitric oxide (NO) regulates basal and female-stimulated MPOA dopamine release. Microinjection of L-nitro-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, an NO synthesis inhibitor) into the MPOA blocked copulation in naive rats and impaired copulation ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lagoda G,Muschamp JW,Vigdorchik A,Hull EM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central cannabinoid receptors mediate neural oscillations and are localized to networks implicated in auditory P50 sensory gating, including the hippocampus and neocortex. The current study examined whether neural oscillations evoked by the paired clicks (S1, S2) are associated with abnormal P50 gating reported in can...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Edwards CR,Skosnik PD,Steinmetz AB,O'Donnell BF,Hetrick WP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acoustic startle reflex (ASR) in rats is attenuated by a light paired with food or, in humans, by "pleasant" pictures. Rats were trained to barpress for lateral hypothalamus (LH) stimulation. ASR amplitudes were then measured at 4 intensities, with or without a light. Control rats that did not receive brain-stimul...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Steidl S,Li L,Yeomans JS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptors are thought to modulate aversion, whereas the periaqueductal gray matter (PAG) is a common pathway for the integration of fear behaviors. The authors determined whether injection of an NK-1 agonist (GR73632) into subregions of the PAG would alter fear-related behaviors. Behavioral...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mongeau R,De Oca BM,Fanselow MS,Marsden CA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the effects of positive and negative feedback on performance during choice reaction time tasks to assess whether they differentially affect phasic arousal and tonic activation. Participants (N = 96) received either no feedback or signals of reward, punishment, or both during a semantic and a visuos...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： De Brabander B,Declerck CH,Boone C

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the lateral, but not the medial, parabrachial nucleus (PBN) blocked conditioned taste aversion (CTA) induced by morphine but not conditioned place preference induced by morphine. The same lateral PBN lesions also blocked conditioned place aversion produced by low intraperitoneal dose...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bechara A,Martin GM,Pridgar A,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A good deal is known about psychological factors that contribute to reward value, but very little is known about how reward is computed in the brain. Integration in the circuit for brain stimulation reward may provide a simple model system. Parametric studies have favored the idea that the integration is linear, altho...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hawkins RD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural correlates of associative memory and "forgetting" were observed 1, 6, and 14 days after acquisition of a conditioned response (CR) in the marine snail Hermissenda. Behavioral expression of a light-rotation association, as indexed by contraction of the animal's foot in response to light, dissipated throughout th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Matzel LD,Collin C,Alkon DL

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:Previous electrophysiological studies and computational modeling suggest the hypothesis that cholinergic neuromodulation may reduce olfactory associative interference during learning (M. E. Hasselmo, B. P. Anderson, & J. M. Bower, 1992; M. E. Hasselmo & J. M. Bower, 1993). These results provide behavioral evidence sup...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： De Rosa E,Hasselmo ME

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated administration of apomorphine leads to a context-dependent pecking response sensitization. Previously sensitized pigeons (Columba livia) challenged with saline in the same context show a conditioned response (CR). The authors studied the effects of intrastriatal injections of the dopamine (D(1)) antagonist SC...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Acerbo MJ,Delius JD

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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 purpose of this study was to characterize the ontogeny of the acoustic startle response (ASR) and response sensitization to background noise in preweanling rats. Animals were tested daily from 11 to 21 days of age using one of four sets of background white noise levels [45-80 dB(A)]. With constant low-level (45 dB...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sheets LP,Dean KF,Reiter LW

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female rats exhibit a conditioned place preference (CPP) for a context paired with mating. The present experiment tested the hypothesis that the activation of the pelvic nerve mediates the reinforcing effects of mating for female rats. Rats underwent bilateral pelvic nerve or sham transection and then received paced m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meerts SH,Clark AS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stages of formation of memory and the roles of different forebrain structures in memory formation were investigated by injecting various agents into the brains of chicks close to the time of peck-avoidance training. With L-glutamate injected bilaterally into the hyperstriatum 5 min pretraining, retention was good 1 mi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Patterson TA,Alvarado MC,Warner IT,Bennett EL,Rosenzweig MR

更新日期：1986-12-01 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 literature suggests that the hippocampus subserves processes associated with the encoding of novel information. To investigate the role of different subregions of the hippocampus, the authors made neurotoxic lesions in different subregions of the dorsal hippocampus (i.e., CA1, dentate gyrus [DG], or CA3) of r...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee I,Hunsaker MR,Kesner RP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality is known to influence cognitive and affective functioning as well as the risk of psychiatric disorders. Exploration of the neurobiological correlates of personality traits has the potential to enhance understanding of their significance in development of related psychopathological states. The authors exami...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kumari V,ffytche DH,Das M,Wilson GD,Goswami S,Sharma T

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Adult male rats consumed 50-150% more 0.5 M NaCl solution than females did during a 7-hr drinking test when robust salt appetite was elicited by dietary sodium deprivation for 8 days, daily injections of deoxycorticosterone, or adrenalectomy followed by 2 days of sodium deprivation. In contrast, male rats drank much l...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheidler MG,Verbalis JG,Stricker EM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of extra light-alone or rotation-alone presentations to sequences of light-rotation pairings reduced the associative suppression of phototaxic behavior for the nudibranch Hermissenda. Training-induced changes in Type B photoreceptor light responses were found to parallel the training-induced behavioral ch...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Farley J

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00