The evolution of sex differences in spatial ability.

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：:Single unit activity was recorded from the rat hippocampal CA1 and CA3 subfields, dentate gyrus (DG), entorhinal cortex (EC), subicular complex (SB), motor cortex (MC), prefrontal cortex (PFC), and dorsomedial thalamus (DMT) during performance of a continuous non-matching-to-sample task. The rats made go and no-go res...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sakurai Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to an acute stressful event enhances trace eyeblink conditioning in male rats, even when rats begin training days after the stressor (Shors, 2001). The authors examined whether the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), an area involved in stress and anxiety, is critically involved in this effect and, if...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bangasser DA,Santollo J,Shors TJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Two different strains of mice, C57BL/6J and BALB/c, with hippocampal, cortical, or sham lesions, underwent contextual fear conditioning. In both strains, contextual fear, as measured by the freezing response, was significantly impaired in hippocampus-lesioned animals compared with sham control animals. Fear conditioni...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chen C,Kim JJ,Thompson RF,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala is an integrator of affective processing, and a key component of a network regulating social behavior. While decades of lesion studies in nonhuman primates have shown alterations in social interactions after amygdala damage, acute manipulations of the amygdala in primates have been underexplored. We recen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Forcelli PA,Wellman LL,Malkova L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on odor mixture perception suggest that although odor components can often be identified in mixtures, mixtures can also give rise to novel perceptual qualities that are not present in the components. Using an olfactory habituation task, the authors evaluated how the perceptual similarity between components in ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wiltrout C,Dogra S,Linster C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor mixture perception can be configural (the mixture is qualitatively different from the components) or elemental (the components are recognizable). Some have argued that configural properties are dependent on chemical similarity and possible overlap at the receptor level. The authors show that a binary mixture in w...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kay LM,Lowry CA,Jacobs HA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female ovariectomized (OVX) and sham-OVX rats were trained in a task designed to assess sustained attention. After achieving asymptotic performance, OVX rats did not exhibit the impairment in performance over blocks of trials (i.e., the vigilance decrement) observed in sham-OVX rats. Furthermore, OVX rats' performance...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McGaughy J,Sarter M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four experiments studied the opioid receptor subtype and signal transduction mechanisms mediating fear extinction in the ventrolateral quadrant of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (vlPAG). Microinjection of a mu- but not a delta- or kappa-opioid receptor antagonist into the vlPAG retarded extinction. Extinction was al...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McNally GP,Lee BW,Chiem JY,Choi EA

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：:These studies were designed to determine the dose-response autonomic and behavioral thermoregulatory effects and the motor effects of dopamine (DA) and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) injected into the lateral cerebral ventricles of rats. These studies were made possible with a computer-controlled thermocline that permits fre...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Marques PR,Spencer RL,Burks TF,McDougal JN

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have pointed to vulnerability to stress and stress-related pathologies at different timepoints during an individual's life span. These sensitive windows are usually during periods of neural development, such as embryogenesis, infancy, and adolescence. It is critical to understand how neural circuitry may ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Argue KJ,Neckameyer WS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding-related gustatory, olfactory, and visual activation of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) decreases following satiety. Previous neurophysiological studies have concentrated on the caudolateral OFC (clOFC). We describe satiety-induced modulation of 23 gustatory, 5 water, and 15 control neurons in the medial OFC (mO...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pritchard TC,Nedderman EN,Edwards EM,Petticoffer AC,Schwartz GJ,Scott TR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory depends on communication between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex (PFC); however, the neural circuitry that mediates interactions between these brain areas has not been well characterized. Two candidate structures are the thalamic reuniens (RE) and rhomboid (Rh) nuclei, which are reciprocally c...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hallock HL,Wang A,Shaw CL,Griffin AL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In macaque monkeys (Macaco mulatta), memory for scenes presented on touch screens is fornix dependent. However, scene learning is not a purely spatial task, and existing direct evidence for a fornix role in spatial memory comes exclusively from tasks involving learning about food-reward locations. Here the authors dem...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buckley MJ,Charles DP,Browning PG,Gaffan D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of habituation have included an increase in postsynaptic inhibition as one possible mechanism underlying response decrement following repetitive stimulus presentation. In this study, the glycine antagonist strychnine (1.0 mg/kg, ip, 10 min pretreatment) was used to investigate the involvement of glycinergic n...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kehne JH,Davis M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were exposed to shock-paired cues immediately after training on an appetitive preference task. Elevated levels of freezing in and active avoidance of the shock-paired compartment were observed, and memory for the appetitive task was improved when tested 24 hr later. Intra-amygdala muscimol injected before the pos...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Holahan MR,White NM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the studies focusing on the effect of stress on false memories by using psychosocial and physiological stressors yielded diverse results. In the present study, we systematically tested the effect of exogenous hydrocortisone using a false memory paradigm. In this placebo-controlled study, 37 healthy men and 38 ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Duesenberg M,Weber J,Schaeuffele C,Fleischer J,Hellmann-Regen J,Roepke S,Moritz S,Otte C,Wingenfeld K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig pups that were separated from their mothers and placed into a novel environment for 90 min showed an increase in dopamine (DA) turnover (ratio of metabolites to DA) in the septum compared with undisturbed baseline controls. Pups placed into the novel environment with their mothers exhibited an intermediate ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Tamborski A,Lucot JB,Hennessy MB

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large neocortical injuries can interfere with the initial performance of many previously learned behaviors. This dysfunction, however, may not be attributable to the loss of the memories of learned behaviors but to a failure to access memories that are spared. The results of this experiment support this hypothesis by ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： LeVere TE,Brugler T,Sandin M,Gray-Silva S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is necessary for the retrieval of remotely acquired fear to a discrete auditory cue, it is not necessary for the retrieval of recently acquired cued-fear memories. Thus, the RSC's role in memory retrieval for discrete cues is time-dependent. The purpose of the current experiment...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Todd TP,Jiang MY,DeAngeli NE,Bucci DJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the rat brain to acquire or to retain specific learning tasks was tested under conditions of multiple lesions and widely different amounts of practice. Lesion targets were (a) the medial prefrontal and cingulate cortex, (b) the anterior and mediodorsal thalamus, and (c) the dorsal and ventral hippocampu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Markowitsch HJ,Kessler J,Streicher M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parametric manipulations of the task demand were used to examine the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in nonspatial and spatial working memory in rats. Hippocampal lesions produced an immediate and long-lasting impairment of nonspatial working memory in an operant task. The memory deficits increased as the delay i...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wan RQ,Pang K,Olton DS

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between testosterone and imprinting was investigated in domestic chicks. After hatching, chicks received either testosterone enanthate in oil or oil alone (controls). The chicks were then trained by exposing them to a rotating imprinting stimulus, either a red box or a stuffed jungle fowl. A preference sc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bolhuis JJ,McCabe BJ,Horn G

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various doses (40 microg/kg/hr, 300 microg/kg/hr, 600 microg/kg/hr or placebo) of hydrocortisone on tasks assessing working and declarative memory function were measured in 4 groups of 10 young men. During the infusion, participants were given an item-recognition working memory task, a paired-associate ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lupien SJ,Gillin CJ,Hauger RL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether dopamine signaling in the dorsal striatum is sufficient for performance of goal-directed behaviors, local dopamine production was restored in the dorsal striatum of dopamine-deficient (DD) mice through viral-mediated gene therapy. Virally rescued DD (vrDD) mice were tested for learning of an appet...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robinson S,Sotak BN,During MJ,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually receptive females mount sexually sluggish males to entice them to copulate, and estrogen and male olfactory cues mediate this female-male mounting (FMM) in the rat. This study examined whether brain regions that concentrate steroid hormones and receive olfactory projections were important for the mediation of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Afonso VM,Lehmann H,Tse M,Woehrling A,Pfaus JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of postnatal tactile stimulation (TS) on juvenile behavior, adult amphetamine (AMPH) sensitization, and the interaction of TS and AMPH on prefrontal cortical (PFC) thickness and striatum size. Pups received TS by stroking daily with a feather duster from birth till weaning and were t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Muhammad A,Hossain S,Pellis SM,Kolb B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00