abstract：:The avian hippocampal formation (HP) is considered to be homologous to the mammalian hippocampus on the basis of topography, developmental origin and its role in processing spatial memory. However, the morphological organization of the avian HP is very different from that of mammals and components similar to the subdi...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Székely AD

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males from two substrains of C57BL/6J mice, which have been found to differ for open-field exploration, radial-maze learning, and the sizes of their hippocampal intra- and infra-pyramidal mossy fibre (IIPMF) terminal fields, were compared for offensive aggression, thermoregulatory nest-building, and their behaviour in...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sluyter F,Marican CC,Crusio WE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for gonadal steroids are present in an interconnected network of limbic nuclei. The existence of this network structure has important implications for how steroids control reproductive physiology and behavior. In 1986, Cottingham and Pfaff proposed that properties of a steroid-responsive neural network could...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Coolen LM,Wood RI

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of stress on the behavioural changes caused by diazepam withdrawal was studied in mice. Diazepam (2.5 mg/kg) or vehicle was injected intraperitoneally twice a day for 2 weeks. When the last vehicle or diazepam injection had been administered to the mice, 12 h later, the mice were subjected to small platform...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Pokk P,Zharkovsky A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits with lesions of the midline thalamic nuclei were compared to rabbits with sham lesions on classical eyeblink (EB) and heart rate (HR) conditioning. Separate groups of sham and lesioned animals received either 25, 50 or 100% reinforcement with a periorbital shock unconditioned stimulus. Animals with lesions sho...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Buchanan SL,Powell DA,Beylotte FM 3rd,Penney J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior forebrain pathway of the avian song system is involved in juvenile song learning, but its function in adult song behavior is not known. This report uses lesions to study the role of a particular forebrain nucleus, IMAN, in the seasonal regeneration of song in adult white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leuc...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Benton S,Nelson DA,Marler P,DeVoogd TJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Morris water maze (MWM) has been used to assess cognitive function in rats after a variety of lesions designed to model brain damage and to assess the effects of drugs, growth factors, and neural transplants on post-operative deficits. The present study examined recovery of spatial navigation in the MWM over time ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Skelton RW

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the relation between position and amplitude errors during the performance of sequences of saccades to previously memorized target positions in complete darkness. Although a complete compensation (on the average) for fixation errors was observed, groups of successive saccades could be identified which showe...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ditterich J,Eggert T,Straube A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 (C57) and DBA/2 (DBA) inbred mice with posterior parietal cortex or sham lesions were tested in a radial eight-arm maze task with all the paths baited. In the high learner C57 strain, parietal lesions produced a limited impairment of performance without affecting maze-running strategies while the same lesions ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ammassari-Teule M,Save E,de Marsanich B,Thinus-Blanc C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, two breeding lines, derived originally from outbred Wistar rats, have been established that differ markedly and consistently in their anxiety-related behaviour in the elevated plus-maze. At the age of ten weeks, rats were tested once on the elevated plus-maze and the males and females displaying t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Liebsch G,Montkowski A,Holsboer F,Landgraf R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested eight boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 12 normal boys (comparison group), aged 7-12 years, to investigate the hypothesis that ADHD is associated with a steeper and shorter delay-of-reinforcement gradient than is normal. A two-component schedule of reinforcement was...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sagvolden T,Aase H,Zeiner P,Berger D

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to trace by molecular imaging techniques the neural substrates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as animal model. Adult SHR and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) controls were used throughout this study. In experiment 1, naive male SHR and WKY ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Papa M,Berger DF,Sagvolden T,Sergeant JA,Sadile AG

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for structural modifications in the brain following environmental changes have been provided during the last decades. The most pronounced alterations following environmental manipulations have been found in the visual cortex. These plastic changes are supposed to reflect reorganization of neuronal connections...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Torasdotter M,Metsis M,Henriksson BG,Winblad B,Mohammed AH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activation following sexual behavior was studied in the male and female rat brain, using Fos-immunoreactivity (Fos-IR) as a measure. In accordance with the available literature, we observed increased expression of c-fos in the medial preoptic nucleus (MPN), in the posteromedial subdivision of the bed nucleus of...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Veening JG,Coolen LM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that Pavlovian fear conditioning and hippocampal perforant-path long-term potentiation (LTP) are sexually dimorphic in rats. Males show greater contextual fear conditioning, which depends on the hippocampus, as well as greater hippocampal LTP. In order to examine the role of circulating gonadal ho...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Anagnostaras SG,Maren S,DeCola JP,Lane NI,Gale GD,Schlinger BA,Fanselow MS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with hippocampal aspiration lesions or cortical control lesions were compared to sham operated controls in a trace conditioned suppression task, in which a long-lasting background stimulus played the role of more conventional contextual cues. In all three surgical treatment groups, conditioning to the explicit co...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Rawlins JN,Tanner J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like human prehensile behavior, the pigeon's ingestive pecking response is elicited by visual stimuli conveying information about the location and size of the target. This information is used to generate localized ingestive pecks whose gapes are amplitude-scaled to seed size, prior to contact. We employed high-resolut...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bermejo R,Zeigler HP

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light deprivation has been found to produce accelerated recovery from severe multimodal neglect induced by unilateral destruction of medial agranular cortex, the rat analog of area 8 in humans. However, neglect in humans is most often produced by destruction of the parietal association cortex. Therefore, the present s...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Burcham KJ,Corwin JV,Van Vleet TM

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of feeding behavior on other behaviors (swimming, crawling and shortening) was investigated in the leech, Hirudo medicinalis. The stimulus locations and intensities required to produce mechanically elicited behaviors were first determined in the non-feeding leech. Stimuli were delivered while the leech was ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Misell LM,Shaw BK,Kristan WB Jr

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known from previous work that neurones are born continuously in the ventricular zone of the bird brain. In this study, we show that the amount of cell proliferation in the ventricular zone of the hippocampus (HP) and the hyperstriatum ventrale (HV) is influenced by behavioural experience. Two groups of birds (ma...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Patel SN,Clayton NS,Krebs JR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two cognition enhancers on avoidance impairment induced by the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline were assessed during shuttle-box avoidance acquisition and in previously trained mice of the DBA/2 strain. The nootropic agent piracetam (50, 100 or 200 mg/kg, i.p.) had slight or no effect in mice rece...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Pavone F,Battaglia M,Sansone M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of diazepam (1.0 mg/kg, i.p.) and buspirone (5.0 mg/kg, i.p.) on the burying behaviour latency (denoting actions on the animals' reactivity) and on the cumulative burying behaviour (directly reflecting the experimental anxiety levels), were analyzed in male-, intact females, at proestrus and metoestrus, and...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Fernández-Guasti A,Picazo O

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that conditioned blocking of taste aversion learning in 3-month-old Wistar rats depends on the hippocampal system integrity. Thus, the aim was to demonstrate that enough connectivity would develop after a graft to support the attention mechanism required for conditioned blocking. In the fir...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gallo M,Valouskova V,Cándido A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We trained 24 rats to perform an eight-arm radial maze task and then assigned them with a matching procedure to one of three treatments: sham surgery or lesions of the projection areas of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MDn) in the medial wall (MW) or in both the MW and rhinal sulcal (RS) areas of frontal cortex. Af...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Porter MC,Mair RG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial discrimination learning in aged rats serves as an animal model of cognitive aging. We assessed the replicability of spatial discrimination performance in the standard Morris water escape task. To this end the learning curves and the performance in a probe trial of 24-month-old outbred Wistar (HsdWin:Wu) contro...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： van der Staay FJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The area postrema (AP), a chemosensitive organ located in the fourth ventricle, has been shown to mediate the formation of a lithium-induced conditioned taste avoidance (CTA) in rats. The present experiments examined the role of the AP in the discrimination between two equimolar solutions of sodium chloride (NaCl) and...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ossenkopp KP,Ladowsky RL,Eckel LA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study with the Poffenberger paradigm, Brizzolara et al. reported longer estimates of interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT) for children aged 7 years than for adults. They interpreted this finding as evidence for incomplete functional maturity of the corpus callosum in young children. The present study was ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ratinckx E,Brysbaert M,d'Ydewalle G

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cortical areas in rats have been found to be important in directed attention and spatial processing: the medial agranular cortex (AGm), the rodent analog of the frontal eye fields; and the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), the rodent analog of area 7 in primates. As in primates, unilateral destruction of either of ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Burcham KJ,Corwin JV,Stoll ML,Reep RL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine-induced hyperactivity was inhibited by a single administration of naloxone (2 and 5 mg/kg, i.p.), an opioid receptor antagonist, and naloxone administered prior to and during the chronic injection of cocaine attenuated the development of both cocaine-induced reverse tolerance and conditioned place preference (...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Kim HS,Park WK,Jang CG,Oh KW,Kong JY,Oh S,Rheu HM,Cho DH,Kang SY

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found [42] that lesions of the superior temporal polysensory area (STP) cause temporary deficits in the production of eye movements. In order to both define regions participating in the ensuing recovery and to further explore the cortical control of eye movements, we examined the effects of addition of f...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Scalaidhe SP,Rodman HR,Albright TD,Gross CG

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of a choline-deficient diet for 20 days caused no modification in ACh levels in the cortex, hippocampus and olfactory system of the rat and an increase in the density (Bmax) of the muscarinic receptors in the hippocampus. The choline-deficient diet caused no modification in noradrenaline levels ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Molinengo L,Orsetti M,Ghi P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronic 10-day amphetamine (Amp) protocol was used to induce significant long-term decrements of the striatal [18F]fluoro-L-DOPA influx rate constant (FDOPA Ki) in the vervet monkey. Longitudinal FDOPA-positron emission tomography (PET) assessment in Amp-treated subjects subsequently revealed a gradual recovery of s...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Melega WP,Raleigh MJ,Stout DB,Huang SC,Phelps ME

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The senescence-accelerated mouse (SAMP8) is a useful murine model of accelerated aging and learning deficiency. We examined bindings of [3H]pirenzepine, [3H]dizocilpine (MK-801), [3H]flunitrazepam, [3H]8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)-tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) and [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutylate (PDBu) in SAMP8 brains, and comp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Nomura Y,Kitamura Y,Ohnuki T,Arima T,Yamanaka Y,Sasaki K,Oomura Y

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia is one of the major medical challenges in the industrialized countries. An increasing number of demented patients shows ischemic brain lesions. One strategy to treat dementia could be the reinforcement of the multifarious neuroprotective actions of the endogenous cell modulator adenosine. This involves the mo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Rudolphi KA,Schubert P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and neurobiological parallels between rabbits and humans in eyeblink classical conditioning (EBCC) make this paradigm potentially useful for preclinical and clinical trials. The known involvement of hippocampal pyramidal cells in EBCC in rabbits led us to evaluate the nootropic compound, nefiracetam. In Exp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Woodruff-Pak DS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate NMDA receptor antagonists on scopolamine-induced amnesia and on delay-interposed short-term memory performance were investigated using an 8-arm radial maze in rats. Scopolamine, a muscarinic antagonist, deteriorated the radial maze performance, while MK-801, an NMDA receptor channel...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Li HB,Matsumoto K,Tohda M,Yamamoto M,Watanabe H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of hippocampal muscarinic receptors in spatial learning, various doses of scopolamine were injected bilaterally into the CA1 region of the dorsal hippocampus of rats trained in a two-platform spatial discrimination task. Scopolamine administered 10 min before each training session at doses ranging fr...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Carli M,Luschi R,Samanin R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used two procedures to assess the spatial learning and memory of rats in the Morris water maze task subsequent to kindling of hippocampal field CA1: (1) seizures were kindled with stimulation of CA1 prior to training in the water maze (acquisition); and (2) maze training was imposed until performance stabilized, se...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gilbert TH,McNamara RK,Corcoran ME

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated the habenula in modulating states of arousal and chronic responses to stress. We examined whether lesion of the habenula efferent pathway, the fasciculus retroflexus (FR), at either 3 (P3) or 70 (P70) days of age affects stress-related anxiety (elevated plus-maze test) and activity level...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Murphy CA,DiCamillo AM,Haun F,Murray M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated, psychophysically, the influence of body rotation on visual motion direction thresholds for both upright sitting and tilted observers. Four angular accelerations (0, 20, 40 and 60 degrees/s2) were combined with 3 concurrent backward-tilt positions (0, 45 and 90 degrees). This led to combined stimulatio...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Loose R,Probst T,Wist ER

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00