Facilitation of fear extinction by midbrain periaqueductal gray infusions of RB101(S), an inhibitor of enkephalin-degrading enzymes.

abstract：:Rats had repeated treatments with cocaine associated with a specific context (paired group). Evidence for classical conditioning of cocaine's motor-activity effects and context-specific behavioral sensitization to cocaine was obtained, relative to vehicle-treated (control) and pseudoconditioned (unpaired) groups. Only...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Burechailo L,Martin-Iverson MT

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acoustic startle response (ASR) of male rats was measured during several sessions over a 24-hr period in both a light-dark cycle and a constant-dark condition. Each session consisted of 10 trials each at 80, 90, 100, 110, and 120 dB white noise. The results indicate robust daily and circadian modulation of ASR amp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chabot CC,Taylor DH

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of anticipatory responding in rats with unilateral subthalamic nucleus lesions was examined. Rats were trained to respond toward visual targets that were preceded by 1 of 4 different cues. For normal rats, a cue invokes an involuntary attentional orienting that enhances processing of the target at the locat...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Phillips JM,Brown VJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2 experiments, the development of adjuvant arthritis (an experimental autoimmune disease) was inhibited by exposing rats to a flavored solution that had previously been paired with injections of cyclosporine (an immunodepressive drug) compared with rats with the same history but exposed to a flavored solution that ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Klosterhalfen S,Klosterhalfen W

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Binge eating and substance dependence are disorders characterized by a loss of control over consummatory behaviors. Given the common characteristics of these two types of disorders, it is not surprising that the comorbidity between eating disorders and substance abuse disorders is high (20-40%; Conason et al., 2006). ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Puhl MD,Cason AM,Wojnicki FH,Corwin RL,Grigson PS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensorimotor skills of a spontaneous mouse mutant, Purkinje cell degeneration (PCD), marked by selective cerebellar cortical atrophy on a treadmill activated at 1 of 2 speeds and at 1 of 3 slopes, requiring forward movements to avoid footshocks. There was no difference in ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Le Marec N,Lalonde R

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：: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：:Two groups of rats were trained on operant discriminations in which the discriminanda were two different sound pressure levels of a 4-kHz tone. The discriminanda were chosen so that the loudness difference between stimuli was equivalent for each group when calculated from a power function with an exponent of .35. Half...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Raslear TG,Pierrel-Sorrentino R,Rudnick F

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits received ibotenic acid lesions of the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus (MD) or sham lesions. These animals were compared on 4 sessions of Pavlovian eyeblink and heart rate conditioning, in which a tone was the conditioned stimulus and a paraorbital electrical shock was the unconditioned stimulus. Lesions of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buchanan SL,Thompson RH

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:In contrast to humans, sodium-replete rats prefer dilute saline to water and do not prefer salted food to plain food. Sodium depletion is known to enhance the intake of and preference for salt provided in water. Here, we examined whether the context of the delivery vehicle for salt could influence salt intake and pref...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bertino M,Tordoff MG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shy-bold continuum is a fundamental behavioral trait conserved across human and nonhuman animals. Individual differences along the shy-bold continuum are presumed to arise from, and are maintained by, differences in the excitability of forebrain limbic areas involved in the evaluation of stimulus saliency. To test...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Beaton EA,Schmidt LA,Schulkin J,Antony MM,Swinson RP,Hall GB

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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

abstract：:The hippocampus has been implicated in anxiety, novelty detection, spatial- contextual processing, and hyperactivity. Accordingly, the authors contrasted the role of the dorsal hippocampus (DH) and the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) in an open field task that presents the onset and termination of a bright light gr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Godsil BP,Stefanacci L,Fanselow MS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the cognitive dysfunction observed in patients with schizophrenia reflects a failure in cognitive control, in particular an inability to use task-relevant information to guide behavior. Using a prefrontal-dependent task designed to reflect aspects of cue and response conflict seen in human co...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Haddon JE,Killcross S

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Ovariectomized female rats treated with estradiol benzoate (EB) and progesterone (P) were infused intracerebroventricularly with a low (200 ng) or high (1 microgram) dose of oxytocin (OT). The low dose of OT facilitated lordosis behavior only during the dark phase of the light-dark cycle in females that were pretreate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schumacher M,Coirini H,Pfaff DW,McEwen BS

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data and computational models suggest that blockade of muscarinic cholinergic receptors impairs paired-associate learning and increases proactive interference (E. DeRosa & M. E. Hasselmo, 2000; M. E. Hasselmo & J. M. Bower, 1993). The results presented here provide evidence in humans supporting these hypo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Atri A,Sherman S,Norman KA,Kirchhoff BA,Nicolas MM,Greicius MD,Cramer SC,Breiter HC,Hasselmo ME,Stern CE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoxetine is the only selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor registered for the treatment of major depressive disorder in pediatric populations, despite reports that it is disproportionately associated with an array of adverse side effects that include agitation, hostility, and overt acts of pathological aggression a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ricci LA,Melloni RH Jr

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：: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：:The acoustic startle reflex (ASR) is potentiated during negative emotion, but attenuated during positive emotional experience. The modulation of the ASR by fear depends critically on the amygdala. The authors investigated ASR modulation to fearful, disgusting, pleasant, and neutral stimuli in 12 patients with unilater...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buchanan TW,Tranel D,Adolphs R

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Lurcher mutant (+/Lc) mice exhibit a massive loss of neurons in the cerebellar cortex and in the inferior olivary nucleus while deep cerebellar nuclei are essentially intact. To discriminate the respective participation of the cerebellar cortex and deep structures in learning and memory, the authors subjected 3- to 6-...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Caston J,Vasseur F,Delhaye-Bouchaud N,Mariani J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of peripherally administered leucine-enkephalin on the acquisition and retention of active avoidance behavior was studied in mice. Mice received 4 training trials on Day 1, 24 test trials on Day 2, and 10 test trials on Day 5. Leucine-enkephalin impaired the aquisition of avoidance behavior when administer...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dana RC,Martinez JL Jr

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:Rats emit aversive taste reactivity (TR) behavior (i.e., gapes) following intraoral delivery of a cocaine-paired taste cue and greater conditioned aversive TR at the end of training predicts greater drug-seeking and taking. Here, we examined the development of this conditioned aversive TR behavior on a trial-by-trial ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Colechio EM,Imperio CG,Grigson PS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00