Tonic and phasic activation and arousal effects as a function of feedback in repetitive-choice reaction time tasks.

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：:To examine the role of the medial zona incerta (mZI) in female sexual behavior, ovariectomized estrogen- and progesterone-treated female rats were tested for sexual receptivity after bilateral injections of the selective neurotoxin ibotenic acid (3 micrograms/0.3 microliter) directly into the mZI. These injections pro...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dornan WA,Peterson M,Matuszewich L,Malen P

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The defensive withdrawal reflex of the mantle organs (gill, siphon, and mantle shelf) of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica has been the subject of numerous studies investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning. In behavioral experiments, the reflex has been monitored by means of two different re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stopfer M,Carew TJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 5 days, rats were exposed to shocks that were signalled by a light 0, 33, 66, or 100% of the time. Basal hormone levels and responses to a light-shock pair were measured daily. Greater predictability was associated with higher basal plasma corticosterone and norepinephrine levels indicative of chronic stress. Habi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pitman DL,Natelson BH,Ottenweller JE,McCarty R,Pritzel T,Tapp WN

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was prompted by reports of functionally normal humans with micrencephaly or cortical hypoplasia. Methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) treatment, which induces micrencephaly in rats, was administered by injection (20 mg/kg) on gestational day 14. Prior to weaning and into adulthood, offspring were assessed on m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ferguson SA,Racey FD,Paule MG,Holson RR

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:Female rats exhibit a conditioned place preference (CPP) for a context paired with mating. The present experiment tested the hypothesis that the activation of the pelvic nerve mediates the reinforcing effects of mating for female rats. Rats underwent bilateral pelvic nerve or sham transection and then received paced m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Meerts SH,Clark AS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In young rats, the pattern of neuronal ensemble activity correlations expressed among hippocampal pyramidal cells during behavior persists during subsequent quiet wakefulness and slow-wave sleep, a process that may facilitate the consolidation of episodic memories. The present study explored the hypothesis that age-re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gerrard JL,Kudrimoti H,McNaughton BL,Barnes CA

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Galanin is a 29-amino-acid neuropeptide that is overexpressed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and impairs performance on rodent learning and memory tasks. M40, a peptidergic galanin receptor ligand, blocks galanin-induced impairments on delayed non-matching-to-position (DNMTP). The present experiments used the 192IgG-sapo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McDonald MP,Wenk GL,Crawley JN

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of water deprivation on hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), theta rhythm, and contextual fear conditioning in rats was examined. In Experiment 1, hippocampal EEG activity and perforant path LTP were assessed in pentobarbital-anesthetized rats. Water deprivation did not affect baseline cell excitabi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Maren S,DeCola JP,Swain RA,Fanselow MS,Thompson RF

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats treated chronically with the dopamine agonist quinpirole (0.5 mg/kg, twice weekly x 10) met 5 criteria for performance of compulsive checking. Specifically, in a large open-field with single small objects in 4 of 25 locales, quinpirole rats revisited two places/objects excessively often and rapidly, compared with...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Szechtman H,Sulis W,Eilam D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finicky feeding refers to an animal's tendency to become more particular in accepting and choosing food as satiation is approached. We tested the hypothesis that finickiness in the blowfly is related to the balance between internal inhibition, generated by a full crop, and external sensory information, generated by or...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Moss CF,Dethier VG

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified learned food aversion paradigm simulated the prolonged food and illness exposure likely to characterize nutrient deficiencies or tumor growth. In this paradigm, a continuously available food was associated with a slow, continuous infusion of LiCl provided by osmotic minipump. Significant aversions were acqu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bernstein IL,Goehler LE

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：: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：:In Experiment 1, Long-Evans rat pups received fimbria-fornix transections or sham surgery on Postnatal Day 10 (PND10) and were then trained on PND23 to perform either a discrete-trials delayed alternation (DA) or a simple position discrimination (PD) task in a T maze. Rat pups in both surgical conditions learned the P...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Freeman JH Jr,Stanton ME

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with perirhinal cortex lesions were sequentially trained in a rectangular water tank on a series of 3 visual discriminations, each between mirror-imaged stimuli. When these same discriminations were tested concurrently, the rats were forced to use a configural strategy to solve the problems effectively. There was...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Aggleton JP,Albasser MM,Aggleton DJ,Poirier GL,Pearce JM

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Two experiments examined whether the pudendal and pelvic autonomic nerves are important for pacing behavior shown by the female rat during mating. Ovariectomized female rats received bilateral transection of the pudendal (Pux), pelvic (Pex), or pudendal and pelvic (Pu + Pex) nerves or were sham-operated (Shx). Lordoti...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Erskine MS

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural correlates of associative memory and "forgetting" were observed 1, 6, and 14 days after acquisition of a conditioned response (CR) in the marine snail Hermissenda. Behavioral expression of a light-rotation association, as indexed by contraction of the animal's foot in response to light, dissipated throughout th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Matzel LD,Collin C,Alkon DL

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One indication of receptive behavior of the female leopard frog, Rana pipiens, is absence of a release call during tactile stimulation of the trunk. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) inhibits this call. This experiment demonstrates a different pattern of [14C]2-deoxyglucose concentration in brains of 5 receptive females silence...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Diakow C,Woicyk W,McEachron DL,Adler NT

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：: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：:Dopaminergic blocking agents have been known to suppress intracranial self-stimulation, but whether the suppression results from a reduction in the rewarding value of stimulation or from motor deficits has remained controversial. We have resolved this controversy by developing an operant technique minimally dependent ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Fantie BD,Nakajima S

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of energy intake depends in part on both memory for prior food intake and internal signals of hunger and satiety. These functions are both mediated by the hippocampus, a brain structure that animal studies have shown to be impaired after maintenance on high fat and refined sugar (HFS) diets. Study 1, using ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Francis HM,Stevenson RJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Previous electrophysiological studies and computational modeling suggest the hypothesis that cholinergic neuromodulation may reduce olfactory associative interference during learning (M. E. Hasselmo, B. P. Anderson, & J. M. Bower, 1992; M. E. Hasselmo & J. M. Bower, 1993). These results provide behavioral evidence sup...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： De Rosa E,Hasselmo ME

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-month-old rats were fed 1 of 4 high-fat diets (20% fat) or chow (4.5% fat) for 3 months. Dietary saturated (SFA), monounsaturated (MUFA), or polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids varied such that their independent effects on cognitive performance could be tested. Rats were tested on a variable-interval delayed-altern...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Greenwood CE,Winocur G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that female-paced coital behavior induces a reward state of sufficient intensity and duration to induce conditioning was evaluated by the conditioned-place-preference paradigm. Ovariectomized female rats, treated with estradiol benzoate and progesterone, regulated (paced) their coital interactions with...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Paredes RG,Alonso A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00