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：INTRODUCTION:Caffeine is frequently consumed concurrent to or immediately following ethanol consumption. Identifying how caffeine and ethanol interact to modulate behavior is essential to understanding the co-use of these drugs. The plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT) allows within-subject measurement of le...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gulick D,Gould TJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decorticated rats are able to engage in play, their play is abnormal in three ways. First, decorticates do not display the normal, age-related shifts in defensive strategies during development. Second, decorticates do not modify their defensive tactics in response to the social identity of their partners. Thi...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bell HC,McCaffrey DR,Forgie ML,Kolb B,Pellis SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Substantial evidence suggests that pharmacological manipulations of neural serotonin pathways influence ingestive behaviors. Despite the known role of the nucleus accumbens in directing appetitive and consummatory behavior, there has been little examination of the influences that serotonin receptors may play in modula...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pratt WE,Blackstone K,Connolly ME,Skelly MJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals and humans are able to predict and synchronize their daily activity to signals present in their environments. Environmental cues are most often associated with signaling the beginning or the end of a daily activity cycle, but they can also be used to time the presentation or availability of scarce resources. I...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gritton HJ,Sutton BC,Martinez V,Sarter M,Lee TM

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：: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：:Mother rabbits nurse once daily with circadian periodicity. The authors investigated brain structures involved in regulating this activity by quantifying c-FOS-immunoreactive (IR) cells in the forebrain of: (1) mothers killed on postpartum Day 1 (PPD 1) after nursing (Group 1) or not given pups (Group 2); (2) mothers ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： González-Mariscal G,Jiménez A,Chirino R,Beyer C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relationship between hippocampal theta activity and trace eyeblink conditioning. Hippocampal electrophysiological local field potentials were recorded before, during, and after conditioning or explicitly unpaired training sessions in adult male New Zealand White rabbits. As expected, a high re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nokia MS,Penttonen M,Korhonen T,Wikgren J

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Recent work from our laboratory demonstrates that both young and adult rats show a preference for directional responding over place navigation in the Morris water task. Based on these findings, previous studies on the postnatal development of spatial learning have most likely assessed the ontogeny of directional respo...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Akers KG,Candelaria-Cook FT,Rice JP,Johnson TE,Hamilton DA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined possible interactions between genetic factors and prolonged drug access by testing the Fischer (F344), Lewis (LEW), and Wistar rat strains in a prolonged access cocaine self-administration (SA) procedure. Before prolonged access, the strains did not differ in breakpoints for food or cocaine ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Freeman KB,Kearns DN,Kohut SJ,Riley AL

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:In Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning, the conditioned response (CR) is highly lateralized to the eye to which the unconditioned stimulus (US) has been directed. However, the initial conditioning of one eye can facilitate subsequent conditioning of the other eye, a phenomenon known as the intereye transfer (IET) effect. ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee T,Kim JJ,Wagner AR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reexamined Grigson's reward comparison hypothesis (1997), which claimed to have resolved the paradox of addictive, rewarding drugs manifesting an aversive effect in the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm. Here, the authors compared the conditioned suppression effects of lithium chloride (LiCl) and am...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Huang AC,Hsiao S

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Whether olfactory working memory involves verbal representations or neural images of odor per se remains unclear. This study investigated whether verbal representation influences performance in an olfactory delayed-match-to-sample task and used monorhinal presentation to generate hypotheses as to the underlying anatom...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Yeshurun Y,Dudai Y,Sobel N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rats have been phenotyped as high (HRs) or low (LRs) responders to novelty, the former associated with high-risk behaviors. Data indicating that adolescent rodents exhibit increased novelty-seeking relative to adults are equivocal, and phenotypic variations in adolescent novel stimulus reactivity are unknown. To...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Philpot RM,Wecker L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shy-bold continuum is a fundamental behavioral trait conserved across human and nonhuman animals. Individual differences along the shy-bold continuum are presumed to arise from, and are maintained by, differences in the excitability of forebrain limbic areas involved in the evaluation of stimulus saliency. To test...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Beaton EA,Schmidt LA,Schulkin J,Antony MM,Swinson RP,Hall GB

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Neuropsin (kallikrein-related peptidase 8) is concentrated in the hippocampus, amygdala, olfactory bulb, and prefrontal cortex. Earlier studies showed that protease deficiency causes a significant impairment of early-phase long-term potentiation in the Schaffer collateral pathway and hippocampus-dependent memory in th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Horii Y,Yamasaki N,Miyakawa T,Shiosaka S

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:The female steroid hormone 17beta-estradiol enhances synaptic transmission and the magnitude of longterm potentiation (LTP) in adult rodent hippocampal slices. Long-term depression (LTD), another form of synaptic plasticity, occurs more prominently in hippocampal slices from aged rodents. A decrease in LTP has been re...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Foy MR,Baudry M,Foy JG,Thompson RF

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) has been suggested as a possible animal model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Reductions in the volume of the cerebellum and impairments in cerebellar-dependent eyeblink conditioning have been observed in ADHD, prompting investigation into whether SHRs also ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chess AC,Green JT

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：:Methylphenidate (MPD) is widely prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the United States. Patients, mostly school-age children, are taking the drug orally. To simulate the human condition, the authors used a cracker to administer methylphenidate orally (without the stress of handling) from Postnata...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zhu N,Weedon J,Dow-Edwards DL

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Exercise can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in humans, but therapeutic effects of exercise in an animal model of stress-related mood disorders have yet to be demonstrated. In the current study, the authors investigated the ability of wheel running to reverse a long-lasting interference with shuttle box esca...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Greenwood BN,Strong PV,Dorey AA,Fleshner M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors measured food reinforcement, polymorphisms of the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) and dopamine transporter (DAT1) genes, and laboratory energy intake in 29 obese and 45 nonobese humans 18-40 years old. Food reinforcement was greater in obese than in nonobese individuals, especially in obese individuals with th...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Epstein LH,Temple JL,Neaderhiser BJ,Salis RJ,Erbe RW,Leddy JJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cognitive mapping theory of hippocampal function, currently active place cells represent a rat's spatial location (J. O'Keefe & L. Nadel, 1978). A systematic shift of firing field locations should therefore produce a similar shift in a rat's judgment of its location. A. A. Fenton, G. Csizmadia, and R. U. Muller...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kubie JL,Fenton A,Novikov N,Touretzky D,Muller RU

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality is known to influence cognitive and affective functioning as well as the risk of psychiatric disorders. Exploration of the neurobiological correlates of personality traits has the potential to enhance understanding of their significance in development of related psychopathological states. The authors exami...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kumari V,ffytche DH,Das M,Wilson GD,Goswami S,Sharma T

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:The authors demonstrated the efficacy of enriched housing conditions in promoting the behavioral recovery and neuronal survival following subicular lesion in rats. Chemical lesioning of the ventral subiculum impaired the spatial learning performances in rats. The lesion also induced a significant degree of neurodegene...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dhanushkodi A,Bindu B,Raju TR,Kutty BM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rewarding properties of centrally administered ethanol (EtOH) were examined using a conditioned place preference (CPP) test. Male rats subjected to bilateral intracerebroventricular (icv) infusions of EtOH (0-240 nmol) produced a dose-dependent preference for the drug-paired environment that was potentiated by con...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Walker BM,Ettenberg A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses an operant, behavioral model to assess the daily changes in the decay rate of short-term memory, motivation, and motor ability in rats exposed to chronic restraint. Restraint decreased reward-related motivation by 50% without altering memory decay rate or motor ability. Moreover, chronic restraint impa...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kleen JK,Sitomer MT,Killeen PR,Conrad CD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00