Modulation of nicotine but not ethanol preference by the mouse Chrna4 A529T polymorphism.

abstract：:Monkeys with conjoint bilateral lesions of the hippocampus and amygdala were impaired on four different tests of memory (delayed retention of object discriminations, concurrent discrimination, delayed response, and delayed nonmatching to sample). Because tests involving delays and distractions are known to be especial...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A learning event can be dissociated into 3 components: acquisition, storage, and recall. When the laboratory wild-type strain of Caenorhabditis elegans (N2 strain) is exposed to benzaldehyde in the absence of food, the worms display a reduction of their attractive response to this volatile odorant. This results from t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Atkinson-Leadbeater K,Nuttley WM,van der Kooy D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acoustic stimulus previously paired with footshock elicits stereotyped increases in arterial pressure and heart rate and induces freezing behavior in freely behaving rats. Although the arterial pressure and freezing responses differ between groups given paired and random presentations of the tone and shock, the inc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Iwata J,LeDoux JE

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:Transport of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) from olfactory sensory neurons to the olfactory bulb as well as odor detection and discrimination were examined in rats in which each nasal epithelium had been irrigated with 0.1-0.5 ml 5% zinc sulfate. After treatment, rats showed few or no deficits ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Slotnick B,Glover P,Bodyak N

更新日期：2000-08-01 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 kinematic parameters of air-stepping induced by 2 methods known to elicit locomotion (olfactory stimulation vs. L-dopa injection) were compared in 3-day-old rats. In the 1st stage, suspended pups were induced to step with an olfactory stimulus of soiled shavings from the nest. In the 2nd stage, they received a sub...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jamon M,Maloum I,Riviere G,Bruguerolle B

更新日期：2002-12-01 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 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 effects of lesions of the medial dorsal thalamic nucleus (MD) on blocking and latent inhibition (LI) of the rat eyeblink response were examined in the present study. Previous work has demonstrated that the cingulate cortex and related thalamic areas are involved in processing conditioning stimuli throughout traini...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nicholson DA,Freeman JH Jr

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research (Grau, 1987a, 1987b) suggests that forebrain systems play an essential role in the hypoalgesia observed after brief shock but not long shock. Additional research has shown that pentobarbital anesthesia and decerebration block the hypoalgesia observed after 3 brief (0.75-s) shocks but not the hypoalge...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meagher MW,Grau JW,King RA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence suggests that pharmacological manipulations of neural serotonin pathways influence ingestive behaviors. Despite the known role of the nucleus accumbens in directing appetitive and consummatory behavior, there has been little examination of the influences that serotonin receptors may play in modula...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pratt WE,Blackstone K,Connolly ME,Skelly MJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-held view has been that interest of male mice in female body odors reflects an activation of reward circuits in the male brain following their detection by the vomeronasal organ (VNO) and processing via the accessory olfactory system. We found that adult, sexually naive male mice acquired a conditioned place pr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Korzan WJ,Freamat M,Johnson AG,Cherry JA,Baum MJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Caffeine is frequently consumed concurrent to or immediately following ethanol consumption. Identifying how caffeine and ethanol interact to modulate behavior is essential to understanding the co-use of these drugs. The plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT) allows within-subject measurement of le...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gulick D,Gould TJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neostriatum caudolaterale (NCL) in the pigeon (Columba livia) forebrain is a multisensory associative area and a functional equivalent to the mammalian prefrontal cortex (PFC). To investigate the role of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the NCL for learning flexibility, the authors trained pigeons in a col...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lissek S,Diekamp B,Güntürkün O

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:Previous studies have identified a population of cells recorded in the postsubiculum and the anterior thalamic nucleus (ATN) that discharge as a function of an animal's head direction (HD) in the horizontal plane. The present experiments monitored HD cell activity when rats were confronted with a situation in which di...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Goodridge JP,Taube JS

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Amnesic patients (n = 8), who have severely impaired declarative memory, learned a probabilistic classification task at the same rate as normal subjects (n = 16) but subsequently were impaired on transfer tests that required flexible use of their task knowledge. A second group of controls (n = 20) rated the questions ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Reber PJ,Knowlton BJ,Squire LR

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Two experiments used an associative blocking design to study the role of dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) and core (AcbC) in fear prediction error. Rats in the experimental groups were trained to a visual fear-conditioned stimulus (conditional stimulus [CS]) A in Stage I, whereas rats in the c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Li SS,McNally GP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat's willingness to ingest glucose after an initial intraoral intake test was probed by beginning a 2nd intraoral intake test at variable durations (1-120 min). In Experiment 1, after an initial meal of 12.5% glucose solution averaging 26.9 +/- 1.7 ml (SEM, n = 10), the size of the 2nd (probe) meal of the same st...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kaplan JM,Seeley RJ,Grill HJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food reinforcement, or the motivation to eat, has been associated with increased energy intake, greater body weight, and prospective weight gain. Much of the previous research on the reinforcing value of food has focused on the role of dopamine, but it may be worthwhile to examine genetic polymorphisms in the serotoni...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Carr KA,Lin H,Fletcher KD,Sucheston L,Singh PK,Salis RJ,Erbe RW,Faith MS,Allison DB,Stice E,Epstein LH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion studies have shown that the avian hippocampus plays a crucial role in homing pigeon (Columba livia) navigation. Using the expression of the immediate early gene protein ZENK in intact pigeons, the authors found regional variation in hippocampal activation as a consequence of homing and, necessarily, the behavio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shimizu T,Bowers AN,Budzynski CA,Kahn MC,Bingman VP

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：: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 previous studies the cerebellar interpositus (IP) nucleus, but not the hippocampus, was shown to be necessary both for initial learning and retention and for long-term retention of the standard delay eyeblink conditioned response (CR). However, in the trace eyeblink CR procedure, the hippocampus is also necessary f...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pakaprot N,Kim S,Thompson RF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two preparations in which sensory nerve stimulation was used to obtain peripherally induced spinal fixation in spinal rats are described. In the first preparation, proportionally greater amounts of persisting poststimulation flexor muscle contraction, as measured by a force displacement transducer, were produced as st...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Steinmetz JE,Patterson MM

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateralization of the Morris water maze task was examined by injecting 5 ng of tetrodotoxin (TTX) into one dorsal hippocampus (HPC) of chronically cannulated rats (n = 20). The task, acquired (A) during unilateral HPC block, was retrieved (R) during TTX blockade of the ipsi- (I) or contralateral (C) HPC. Escape latenc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Fenton AA,Bures J

更新日期：1993-08-01 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