Ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons mediate the shock sensitization of acoustic startle: a potential site of action for benzodiazepine anxiolytics.

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：:The use of food products designed to mimic the sensory properties of sweet and fat while providing fewer calories has been promoted as a method for reducing food intake and body weight. However, such products may interfere with a learned relationship between the sensory properties of food and the caloric consequences ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Swithers SE,Ogden SB,Davidson TL

更新日期：2011-08-01 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 primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is implicated in diverse aspects of behavioral regulation, cognitive control, and memory. However, direct neuropsychological evidence supporting a requirement of this area in functions other than spatial working memory has been scarce. T. L. Moore, S. P. Schettler, R. J. Kill...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Baxter MG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight 4-day-old male rats were studied. Peripheral desensitization was induced in 36 rats by sc administration of capsaicin in increasing doses (350, 700, 1,400, 2,100, and 2,800 micrograms) on 5 consecutive days. When adult, 9 treated and 5 control rats were chronically implanted with a lateral intracerebrovent...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dib B

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exogenous and endogenous steroids on components of female sexual behavior of neonatal male and female rats were investigated. In Experiment 1, 4-day-old rats were treated with 0, 0.1, 1.0, 10, or 100 micrograms/10 g body weight estradiol benzoate (EB) and were tested 44 hr later. In Experiment 2, male r...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Williams CL

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments suggested that the temporal pattern of a taste response in the brain can convey meaningful information. In Experiment 1, rats avoided lick-contingent electrical stimulation of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS; the first synaptic relay for taste) when the temporal pattern of pulses mimicked the el...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Di Lorenzo PM,Hallock RM,Kennedy DP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of intense emotional learning on the sleep-wake state-specific electroencephalographic (EEG) activities of the basolateral (BLA) and central (CeA) nuclei of the amygdala. Rats were trained on a passive-avoidance learning (PAL) protocol that was followed by 6 hr of undisturbed polygraphi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mavanji V,Siwek DF,Patterson EH,Spoley EE,Datta S

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：: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：:Central cannabinoid receptors mediate neural oscillations and are localized to networks implicated in auditory P50 sensory gating, including the hippocampus and neocortex. The current study examined whether neural oscillations evoked by the paired clicks (S1, S2) are associated with abnormal P50 gating reported in can...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Edwards CR,Skosnik PD,Steinmetz AB,O'Donnell BF,Hetrick WP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments addressed the question of whether certain modalities of stimulation are more effective in eliciting immobility-related, atropine-sensitive neocortical low-voltage fast activity and hippocampal rhythmical slow activity from the rabbit. More pronounced activation and less pronounced habituation followed ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Whishaw IQ,Dyck R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, the authors investigated whether Morris water maze learning induces alterations in hippocampal neurogenesis or neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) polysialylation in the dentate gyrus. Two frequently used rat strains, Wistar and Sprague-Dawley, were trained in the spatial or the nonspatial versi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Van der Borght K,Wallinga AE,Luiten PG,Eggen BJ,Van der Zee EA

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:Six females rats were trained to lever press under a free operant shock-postponement schedule. Each subject had a yoked control which received shock whenever the subject did. The shock-postponement interval (R-S) was varied from 5, 10, 20, 40, to 80 s over blocks of sessions. Corticosteroid levels were taken prior to ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Herrmann TF,Hurwitz HM,Levine S

更新日期：1984-12-01 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：: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：:This study assessed the activity of head direction (HD) cells during performance of a spatial reference memory task on a radial arm maze. Rats were trained to select a maze arm located in a constant position in relation to a salient extramaze visual landmark. HD cell discharge properties remained relatively stable acr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dudchenko PA,Taube JS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that corticopetal cholinergic lesions applied to the nucleus basalis magnocellularis and substantia innominata (NBM/SI) attenuate operant suppression induced by aversive events. However, these lesions have no effect on open-arm behavior in the elevated plus-maze or changes in startle...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Knox D,Brothers H,Norman GJ,Berntson GG

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：:Rats were injected with naloxone hydrochloride (3 mg/kg) or saline and subjected to preshock or no preshock prior to receiving a test shock that elicited defensive burying. Preshock was administered in a context different from, or the same as, that in which the test shock was delivered. The combination of naloxone and...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Whiteside DA,Devenport LD

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment was conducted to determine whether the amount of preoperative training influences the effects, on retention, of amygdala lesions induced 30 days after escape training. Rats received 1 or 10 footshock-motivated escape training trials; 30 days later, sham or neurotoxic amygdala lesions were induced. Resu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Parent MB,West M,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only the function relating the required pulse frequency to the interburst interval discriminates between the priming effect and the rewarding effect: Separating two short bursts of pulses has no effect on their combined rewarding effect, but it enhances their priming effect. There are significant nonscalar differences...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sax L,Gallistel CR

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:Male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) form a pair bond with a female partner after mating, and this behavior is regulated by the neuropeptide vasopressin (AVP). The authors report that AVP in the lateral septum is important for pair bond formation. Administration of an AVP V1a receptor antagonist in the lateral se...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Liu Y,Curtis JT,Wang Z

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal testosterone exposure may be protective against disordered eating. However, prior studies have produced mixed results. Developmental differences in prenatal testosterone's protective effects on disordered eating may explain these discrepancies. Indeed, studies have differed in the age of participants assessed...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Culbert KM,Breedlove SM,Sisk CL,Keel PK,Neale MC,Boker SM,Burt SA,Klump KL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological markers for acquisition and extinction of fear conditioning were studied in 40 individuals selected for displaying either good or poor acquisition of fear conditioning. as estimated by the skin conductance response. Participants with a short serotonin transporter (5-HTT) promoter allele or low monoamine oxi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Garpenstrand H,Annas P,Ekblom J,Oreland L,Fredrikson M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social signals play a primary role in regulating social relationships among male mice. The present series of experiments investigated the neural mechanisms underlying an induction of amicable cues that facilitate social approach in male mice of the C57BL/6 (B6) and BALB/c (BALB) strains. Male mice exhibit approach beh...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Arakawa H

更新日期：2017-04-01 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