Neonatal handling reduces the number of cells in the locus coeruleus of rats.

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：:Sexually experienced female rats return to the male more quickly after intromissions, exhibit shorter interintromission intervals, and spend more time with the male rat during a test of paced mating behavior in comparison to naïve rats. The present study tested whether these changes reflect heightened sexual motivatio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meerts SH,Park JH,Sekhawat R

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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

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 glutamate analog, L-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4) is a selective agonist for several members of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) family. Activation of presynaptic mGluRs by L-AP4 causes a suppression of synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. In this study, the role of 1 subtype o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gerlai R,Roder JC,Hampson DR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned inhibition (CI) of the rat eyeblink response and the neuronal correlates of CI in the cerebellar interpositus nucleus were examined in the present study. In Experiment 1, CI was established with a novel, 3-group design. In Experiment 2, neuronal activity in the anterior interpositus nucleus was recorded du...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nicholson DA,Freeman JH Jr

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:An influential view in the field of spatial cognition is that an obligatory geometric module constrains spatial learning and memory. In this issue, P. M. Jones, J. M. Pearce, V. J. Davies, M. A. Good, and A. McGregor (2007) showed that learning based on the geometry, or shape, of the environment requires the hippocamp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dudchenko PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Amiloride-sensitive sodium channels in taste buds appear to play a key role in the response to NaCl stimulation, at least in adult rats. The researchers examined whether neonatal rats, which display an exaggerated preference for hypertonic NaCl solutions, lack functional amiloride-sensitive sodium channels. NaCl intak...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sollars SI,Bernstein IL

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：: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 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：:Dopamine (DA)-containing neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are thought to play an important role in fear motivation. The primary objective of the present study was to determine the connection between DA D2, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)A, and benzodiazepine receptors in the VTA and footshock-associated emot...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gifkins A,Greba Q,Kokkinidis L

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This series of experiments investigated the role of a prefrontal cortical-dorsal striatal circuit in attention, using a continuous performance task of sustained and spatially divided visual attention. A unilateral excitotoxic lesion of the medial prefrontal cortex and a contralateral lesion of the medial caudate-putam...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Christakou A,Robbins TW,Everitt BJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments measured the response-enhancing effects of oral stimulation in young rats with no feeding experience. In Experiment 1, pups were implanted with oral cannulas and deprived for 0, 6, or 24 hr. In nondeprived rats, sucrose exposure transiently sensitized oral responding to subsequent stimuli for several m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Myers KP,Arnold HM,Hall WG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be caused by genetic or environmental factors. Among environmental factors, perinatal complications are related, such as neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI). Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether HI contributes to the development of characteristics relate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Miguel PM,Schuch CP,Rojas JJ,Carletti JV,Deckmann I,Martinato LH,Pires AV,Bizarro L,Pereira LO

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear conditioning shows associations formed between contextual or auditory stimuli with an unconditioned stimulus. Inbred mouse strains differ in their ability to demonstrate fear conditioning, suggesting at least a partial genetic influence. The present study identified the possible chromosomal loci regulating fear c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Owen EH,Christensen SC,Paylor R,Wehner JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interaction promotes survival by helping animals to form stable and supportive groups. Additionally, maladaptive social behavior is a hallmark of disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In many different animal species, including humans, social interaction can be inherently rewarding. Lately there has been ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Cann C,Venniro M,Hope BT,Ramsey LA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on work done in animal models showing that autism-like symptoms are ameliorated following exposure to an enriched sensorimotor environment, we attempted to develop a comparable therapy for children with autism. In an initial randomized controlled trial, children with autism who received sensorimotor enrichment a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Woo CC,Donnelly JH,Steinberg-Epstein R,Leon M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gustatory rejection response of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), habituates to antifeedant compounds, allowing for the consumption of deterrent yet nontoxic plant materials. In the present study, we demonstrate that habituation to an antifeedant compound (quinine) persists through the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shikano I,Akhtar Y,Isman MB,Rankin CH

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Models of hippocampal function have proposed different functions for hippocampal regions CA3 and CA1, commonly proposing that CA1 performs a match-mismatch comparison of memory retrieval with sensory input. The study by I. Lee, M. R. Hunsaker, and R. P. Kesner (2005) tested these models using selective lesions of hipp...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hasselmo ME

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism has received attention in schizophrenia due to its role in prefrontal dopamine catabolism. Given the rich dopaminergic innervations of the olfactory bulb and the influence of dopamine on the transmission of olfactory signals, the authors examined the influ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kamath V,Moberg PJ,Gur RE,Doty RL,Turetsky BI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amygdala central nucleus (CNA) lesions were used to test the hypothesis that stimulus-evoked heart rate changes can reflect the development of fear during acoustic startle testing. A 120-dB white noise startle stimulus produced freezing as well as phasic heart rate accelerations and decelerations, and an abrupt decrea...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young BJ,Leaton RN

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decorticated rats are able to engage in play, their play is abnormal in three ways. First, decorticates do not display the normal, age-related shifts in defensive strategies during development. Second, decorticates do not modify their defensive tactics in response to the social identity of their partners. Thi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bell HC,McCaffrey DR,Forgie ML,Kolb B,Pellis SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Exposure to 3 moderately intense (1-mA) tailshocks has been shown to lower vocalization thresholds to both heat and shock. Previous shock exposure also facilitates the acquisition of conditioned fear as measured by freezing. These observations suggest that shock induces hyperalgesia (enhanced pain). This study explore...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McLemore S,Crown ED,Meagher MW,Grau JW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00