Association of an odor with activation of olfactory bulb noradrenergic beta-receptors or locus coeruleus stimulation is sufficient to produce learned approach responses to that odor in neonatal rats.

abstract：:Neuronal recruitment in the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) hippocampus occurs at a higher rate in the fall than at other times of the year. As a means of determining whether this increase in recruitment results from greater neuron production, chickadees were caught in the wild between October and March ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hoshooley JS,Sherry DF

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：:A long-held view has been that interest of male mice in female body odors reflects an activation of reward circuits in the male brain following their detection by the vomeronasal organ (VNO) and processing via the accessory olfactory system. We found that adult, sexually naive male mice acquired a conditioned place pr...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Korzan WJ,Freamat M,Johnson AG,Cherry JA,Baum MJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of delay eyeblink conditioning (EBC) in young rats have demonstrated different effects of various conditioned and unconditioned stimulus (CS-US) preexposure conditions on learning at different ages. The present study extends this research to trace EBC. Subjects experienced 1 of 3 preexposure conditions ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Claflin DI,Buffington ML

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：:Environmental cues associated with drug administration elicit neural activation in circuits involved in cognitive processes and emotional regulation. An important question is whether the neural activation observed is specific to the drug-paired environment or is due to a generalized activation induced by previous drug...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schroeder BE,Kelley AE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical conditioning of the rabbit eyeblink response was used to study the effects of cerebellar lesions on performance in animals trained with low-intensity unconditioned stimuli (US). Animals were trained with 1 of 2 low-intensity corneal-airpuff USs paired with a tone-conditioned stimulus. This study confirms ear...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ivkovich D,Lockard JM,Thompson RF

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Pinealectomized lizards (Podarcis sicula) whose locomotor rhythms were recorded in constant temperature (29 degrees C) and darkness were subdivided into 2 groups of hosts: Each belonging to the 1st group (experimentals) received from a donor a pineal gland, and each belonging to the 2nd one (controls) received a piece...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Foà A,Bertolucci C,Marsanich A,Innocenti A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acoustic startle reflex (ASR) is potentiated during negative emotion, but attenuated during positive emotional experience. The modulation of the ASR by fear depends critically on the amygdala. The authors investigated ASR modulation to fearful, disgusting, pleasant, and neutral stimuli in 12 patients with unilater...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buchanan TW,Tranel D,Adolphs R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extant research findings allow several conclusions regarding the relationship between estrogen and cognitive functioning across the female life span. First, performance on tests of verbal memory fluctuates in concert with physiological changes in ovarian hormone production during the menstrual cycle and during pregnan...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sherwin BB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habituation has traditionally been considered a nonassociative form of learning. However, recent research suggests that retention of this nonassociative form of learning may be aided by associations formed during training. An example of this is context conditioning, in which animals that are trained and tested in the ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rankin CH

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult Japanese quail display left-eye/right-hemisphere dominance in visually guided sexual tracking. In 2 experiments, the authors set out to answer if this functional cerebral asymmetry is modifiable by posthatch monocular deprivation. In Experiment 1, the left or the right eye of 2-day old quail were closed for 70 d...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gülbetekin E,Güntürkün O,Dural S,Cetinkaya H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous opioids mediate some reward processes involving both natural (food, sweet taste) and artificial (morphine, heroin) rewards. In contrast, sexual behavior (which is also reinforcing) is generally inhibited by opioids. To establish the role of endogenous opioids for a newly described natural reinforcer, namely...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Agustín-Pavón C,Martínez-Ricós J,Martínez-García F,Lanuza E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gerbils aged 3 months and 24+ months were subjected to 5 min of global forebrain ischemia and tested in a radial arm maze (1 trial/day, 50 days). Compared with age-matched, sham-operated controls, ischemic animals were impaired on measures of both working and reference memory. Aged animals were impaired on working mem...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schwartz C,Wishart TB,Ijaz S,Shuaib A

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anterograde amnesia (AA), forgetting of events that occur following a traumatic episode, has recently been demonstrated by using a mild decrease in temperature (hypothermia) as the amnestic agent. However, no data currently exist to indicate if an increase in body temperature (hyperthermia) might affect memory process...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ahlers ST,Riccio DC

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Female songbirds use male songs as an important criterion for mate selection. Several studies have reported that female songbirds prefer complex songs to other song types. In a recent study, the authors found that song responsiveness in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) is strongly modulated by circulating es...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Vyas A,Harding C,McGowan J,Snare R,Bogdan D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to a running wheel combined with restricted feeding produced body weight loss at an equivalent rate in male and female litter-mate rats (Experiment 1). Thus, despite weighing less and running more, females were not more vulnerable to this procedure. When factors influencing weight loss were varied, no sex diffe...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Boakes RA,Mills KJ,Single JP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very high correlation was found in rats between latency to escape on the first trial of an active avoidance task and the rate at which [leu]enkephalin is hydrolyzed in plasma. In addition, the rate of [leu]enkephalin hydrolysis is significantly altered following the first training trial. The results suggest that a r...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martinez JL Jr,Weinberger SB

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:Idazoxan, an alpha 2 adrenoceptor antagonist (2 mg/kg), enhanced novel object investigation in a holeboard in rats as previously reported (V. Devauges & S. J. Sara, 1990). Two weeks of 10 min/day in 37 degrees C water increased dopamine-beta-hydroxylase staining density in the locus coeruleus but did not enhance novel...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mansour AA,Babstock DM,Penney JH,Martin GM,McLean JH,Harley CW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research shows that prenatal binge ethanol exposure during gestation days (GD) 17 to 20 of the rat, increases postnatal ethanol intake and enhances ethanol's palatability, both effects being mediated by the opioid system. The amniotic fluid of the last period of gestation (GD 20) of the rat has been found to ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Díaz-Cenzano E,Chotro MG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the neural substrates underlying the development of a conditioned place preference (CPP) to morphine (2 mg/kg x 3 pairings) by testing whether lesions of 7 different neural sites block a morphine-induced CPP. Lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg), the periaqueductal gray (PAG), o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Olmstead MC,Franklin KB

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nondemented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients report problems on nonmotor tasks that depend on visual or visuospatial abilities. In PD, foveal vision is impaired. Experimental studies in humans and monkeys established that foveal processing and visuospatial attention may be linked through saccadic eye movements. Sacca...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bodis-Wollner I,Glazman S,Yerram S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectral sensitivity of the red and the yellow retinal fields of head-fixed pigeons was separately measured for wavelengths between 340 and 640 nm by a behavioral perimetric technique. Within this spectral range the mean spectral sensitivity of both fields was found to be maximal at 584 nm and minimal at the lower...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Remy M,Emmerton J

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00