The union of the state: myoclonic twitching is coupled with nuchal muscle atonia in infant rats.

abstract：:The role of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) in stimulus-reward learning was assessed by testing the effects of PPTg lesions on performance in visual autoshaping and conditioned reinforcement (CRf) paradigms. Rats with PPTg lesions were unable to learn an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) an...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Inglis WL,Olmstead MC,Robbins TW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the effects of estrogen loss and replacement therapy on learning and memory function in monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). The ability to learn, remember, and perform reversals of object discriminations and the accuracy on a spatial delayed response task were found to be comparable in young adult sur...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Voytko ML

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social isolation can be used to study behavioral, neural, and hormonal mechanisms that regulate interactions in social animals. Although isolation effects have been reported in social mammals and various fish species, systematic studies with isolated zebrafish are rare. Here, the authors examined behavior (social and ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shams S,Seguin D,Facciol A,Chatterjee D,Gerlai R

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear reactions of rats given bilateral lesions to the septum, hippocampus, or amygdala were compared with those of rats given sham lesions, in 2 animal models of anxiety: the shock-probe burying test and the elevated plus-maze test. Septal lesions produced anxiolytic effects in both tests (i.e., an increase in open-ar...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Treit D,Menard J

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:Caffeine is a psychostimulant frequently consumed by adults and children, often in combination with high levels of sugar. Chronic pretreatment with either substance can amplify both amphetamine and cocaine-induced hyperactivity in rodents. The present study sought to elucidate whether age at the time of exposure to su...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Franklin JL,Wearne TA,Homewood J,Cornish JL

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Among young adults, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") is a popular drug of abuse, and anecdotal evidence indicates that repeated use of MDMA may result in impairments in sexual function and decreased sex drive in human users. There has been little investigation of the effects of MDMA on sexual functi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Straiko MM,Gudelsky GA,Coolen LM

更新日期：2007-06-01 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 role of the hippocampus in associative learning was investigated in 3 experiments with rats as subjects. Hippocampal rats were impaired in the acquisition of conditioned responding both when food was signaled by the insertion of a lever (Experiment 1) and when the presentation of auditory or visual events served a...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Good M,Honey RC

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-unit recording of siphon nerve activity in intact Aplysia california with chronically implanted cuff electrodes provided a monitor of activity in a central pattern generator, the Interneuron II (Int II) network, which produces large siphon and gill contractions both spontaneously and after tactile stimulation of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Eberly LB,Pinsker HM

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:Effects of the ingestion of protein and carbohydrate conditioned a preference for one size of chow particle over another, which was triggered by need for a specific nutrient. This learned elicitation of nutrient-specific dietary selection was not changed by injection of dl-fenfluramine HCl (2.5 mg/kg). This indicates ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Booth DA,Baker BJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:Covert shifts of visual attention in space have been quantified by measuring the effects of visual cues on the detection of visual targets in humans and monkeys maintaining visual fixation. These observations of "covert orienting" have provided important information regarding the neurobiology of visual attention in pr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bushnell PJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Previous research emphasized the impact of traumatic brain injury on cholinergic systems and associated cognitive functions. Here we addressed the converse question: Because of the available evidence indicating cognitive and neuronal vulnerabilities in humans expressing low-capacity cholinergic systems or with declini...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Koshy Cherian A,Tronson NC,Parikh V,Kucinski A,Blakely RD,Sarter M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice unable to synthesize dopamine (DA) in dopaminergic neurons were generated by gene-targeting techniques (Q.-Y. Zhou & R. D. Palmiter, 1995). These dopamine-deficient (DA-/-) mice required daily administration of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) for survival beyond 2 to 3 weeks of age. This treatment stimulated ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Szczypka MS,Zhou QY,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromuscular impairment by ethanol likely involves complex effects on balance, gait, muscle strength, and other features of motor coordination. The present experiments showed that relative sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairment in serotonin 1B (5-HT(1B)) null mutant and control mice was task dependent. We fo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Boehm SL 2nd,Schafer GL,Phillips TJ,Browman KE,Crabbe JC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gerbils show a postischemic increase in locomotor activity that correlates to the extent of neuron loss in the hippocampal CA1 subfield. It has been suggested that this hyperactivity is predictive of neuron loss in the CA1. In this study the correlation between postischemic hyperactivity and neuron loss in several hip...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Andersen MB,Zimmer J,Sams-Dodd F

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Supplemental choline during early stages of development can result in long-lasting improvements to memory function. In addition, pre- or postnatal choline has been shown to be protective against some of the adverse effects of early alcohol exposure. The present experiment examined whether supplemental choline given to...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hunt PS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the impact of neonatal injury on adult spinal plasticity in rats. Subjects were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental conditions: (a) hind-paw injury at Postnatal Day (PD) 2, (b) hind-paw injury at PD 5, (c) anesthesia exposure only on PD 2, or (d) anesthesia exposure only...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Young EE,Baumbauer KM,Elliot A,Joynes RL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments are reported whose purpose was to examine the effect of the cholinergic antagonist atropine on the acquisition of different learning tasks known to be sensitive or insensitive to impairment by hippocampal lesions; on the retention of performance acquired in the absence of the drug; and on memory cons...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hagan JJ,Tweedie F,Morris RG

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：: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：:Two experiments were conducted to determine the effectiveness of strychnine sulfate in attenuating the amnesia induced in mice by small doses of cycloheximide (CYC). Previously, reversal of CYC-induced amnesia catecholamine agonists has been taken as evidence that protein synthesis inhibitors induce amnesia via an inh...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Leccese AP,Quinton EE

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:The authors have previously demonstrated that Purkinje cell-degeneration (pcd) mutant mice are impaired in eyeblink conditioning (L. Chen et al., 1996a). The present study addresses the following 3 questions: (a) whether pcd mice perceive the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli as well as the wild-type mice, (b) whe...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chen L,Bao S,Thompson RF

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of men to identify popular word associations had earlier been shown to be affected by left-sided thalamic surgery for movement disorders; now, over a year later, the impairment has been observed with operations on both sides. In addition, upon testing at approximately the same time interval, men who had un...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lansdell H

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00