abstract：:In two separate experiments we addressed the involvement of the rat's prefrontal cortex in mediation of the sequential ordering of the "components of behaviour". In both experiments the animals were required to operate two different and spatially distant manipulanda sequentially. While in the first experiment a light ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Mogensen J,Holm S

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a review of our current knowledge about the role of the periaqueductal grey (PAG) in vocal control. It shows that electrical stimulation of the PAG can evoke species-specific calls with short latency and low habituation in many mammals. The vocalization-eliciting region contains neurones the activity of which ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Jürgens U

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with lesions in either the fornix or the thalamic nucleus medialis dorsalis were unimpaired on the acquisition of two object discrimination tasks. The same animals were then tested on a concurrent learning task in which various object discriminations were presented at different rates during the same session. This...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Hunt PR,Neave N,Shaw C,Aggleton JP

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of Triazolam (Tz)--a short acting benzodiazepine (BZ)--induces permanent phase-shifts in locomotor activity of golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). However, the target area(s) as well as the mechanism involved in the Tz-induced changes are not known. Previous results indicated that raphe nuclei (RN) ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Cutrera RA,Kalsbeek A,Pévet P

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, considerable emphasis has been placed upon the putative role of nucleus accumbens dopamine systems in appetitive motivation and positive reinforcement. However, considerable evidence indicates that brain dopamine in general, and nucleus accumbens dopamine in particular, is involved in aspects of avers...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Salamone JD

更新日期：1994-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cerebellar lesions on a classically conditioned eyeblink response was examined using Dutch Belted rabbits as subjects. Results confirmed our previous findings, using New Zealand White rabbits, that cerebellar cortical lesions do not abolish conditioned responding if the interpositus is intact. However, ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Clark RE,Lavond DG

更新日期：1994-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A behavioural comparison was made between six unoperated control monkeys and six monkeys which received bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the nucleus accumbens. Two of the control monkeys were subsequently given bilateral lesions of the anterior cingulate and medial frontal cortex (areas 24, 25 and 32) and were retes...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Stern CE,Passingham RE

更新日期：1994-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the role of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral caudate-putamen (CPu) in movement initiation of rats, we examined the effects of quinolinic acid lesions (30 nmol in 1 microliter) in these striatal subregions in a simple reaction time task. Results show that lesions of the dorsomedial, but not of t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Hauber W,Schmidt WJ

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of conditioned taste aversion (CTA) by tetrodotoxin (TTX) blockade of parabrachial nuclei elicited after ingestion of the gustatory CS and before administration of the visceral US is revealed by unchanged CS preference in retrieval test performed two days after acquisition. The universality of the above amn...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bielavska E,Bures J

更新日期：1994-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain tectum (MT) structures such as the dorsal periaqueductal gray matter and deep layers of superior colliculus are well-known for the organization and generation of defensive behaviour. Electrical stimulation or microinjection of GABA antagonists into these structures produce aversive behaviour. In order to dete...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Coimbra NC,Brandão ML

更新日期：1993-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The early detection of minor brain dysfunctions resulting from perinatal hypoxia is very important since the prognosis of the affected children can be substantially improved by a prompt treatment. Therefore, this paper deals with the influence of an early postnatal hypoxia on the postnatal development of spontaneous h...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Woldag H,Tegetmeyer H

更新日期：1993-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Audiogenic seizures (AS) are a rodent model of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, induced in susceptible (S) animals by high intensity (110 dB) acoustic stimulation. Resistant (R) animals do not respond to the sound with any seizure-related behavior, but they display facial automatisms and grooming clusters. Genetic s...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Garcia-Cairasco N,Terra VC,Doretto MC

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensive behaviors comprise a set of flexible and adaptive responses to threatening situations and stimuli. In semi-natural situations affording a wide variety of responses, defensive behaviors change over time in response to information about the presence of danger, acquired through risk assessment activities. Two t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Blanchard RJ,Yudko EB,Rodgers RJ,Blanchard DC

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala (AM) and the periaqueductal gray (PAG) represent the rostral and the caudal pole, respectively, of a longitudinally organized neural system, that is responsible for the integration of behavioral and physiological manifestations of defensive reactions against innate and learned threats. Microinjection of b...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Graeff FG,Silveira MC,Nogueira RL,Audi EA,Oliveira RM

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years muscarinic receptor agonists and cholinesterase inhibitors have been developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. We have evaluated examples from both classes of compounds in rodent tests of reference and working memory, as well as tests that are sensitive to the side-effects of these compounds....

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Dawson GR,Iversen SD

更新日期：1993-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article studies the influence of A2 (CGS 21680) and A1 (CPA) adenosine receptor agonists on TRH-induced behavioural excitation in rabbits. The results show that CGS 21680 was the most effective drug when administered into the nucleus caudate, while its intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration did no...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Popoli P,Caporali MG

更新日期：1993-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral intranigral infusions of three different peptide agonists were made in rats exposed to fluphenazine decanoate, 30 mg/kg/month (FLU) or vehicle (CON) for seven months. Oral movements were monitored repeatedly during the neuroleptic pretreatment period, as well as before the intranigral infusion and during a 9...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Liminga U,Gunne LM

更新日期：1993-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:After ablation of the motor cortex contralateral to the preferred limb, rats were forced to use this limb in grasping food out of a horizontal tube by restraining the non-preferred foreleg with a bracelet. In a right-handed rat the motor behaviour is less impaired and the recovery is better after a left hemisphere les...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Miklyaeva EI,Varlinskaya EI,Ioffe ME,Mats VN,Pokazanyeva LN,Kulikov MA

更新日期：1993-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of a taxonomy of functions an outline is given on potential deficits after brain lesions. The taxonomy distinguishes between "what"- and "how"-functions. Whereas for what-functions the localizing principle may apply, the how-functions being responsible for the logistics of the brain are non-locally repres...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： von Steinbüchel N,Pöppel E

更新日期：1993-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment examined the role of the lateral nucleus of the amygdala, the hippocampus and the dorsal striatum in the acquisition of a conditioned place preference (CPP). The CPP was established on a radial maze which was rotated before each daily trial so that only distal cues could be used to distinguish among lo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： White NM,McDonald RJ

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines two characteristic traits of the hippocampus in apomorphine-susceptible (APO-SUS) and apomorphine-unsusceptible (APO-UNSUS) Wistar rat lines. Since hippocampal mossy fibers contain among others dynorphin B as transmitter, a radioimmunoassay was used to analyze the hippocampal dynorphin B exp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Cools AR,Dierx J,Coenders C,Heeren D,Ried S,Jenks BG,Ellenbroek B

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of recent studies suggest that dopamine (DA) transmission in the caudate-putamen may be involved in food reward-related learning. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate this hypothesis by injecting the DA antagonist cis-flupenthixol (25 micrograms in 0.5 microliters) into the dorsal caudate-putamen o...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Beninger RJ,Ranaldi R

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdialysis was used to study the effects of exposure to a male hamster on extracellular concentrations of dopamine, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), homovanillic acid (HVA), and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) in the ventral striatum of ovariectomized female Syrian hamsters pretreated with either estradiol ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Meisel RL,Camp DM,Robinson TE

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with aspiration or excitotoxic (NMDA) lesions of the parahippocampal region were trained on a series of behavioral tasks which consisted of: (1) a test of spatial memory (discrete trial rewarded alternation), (2) a black-white discrimination, and (3) a test of non-spatial memory commonly used in primate models of...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Rothblat LA,Vnek N,Gleason TC,Kromer LF

更新日期：1993-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglect in human and non-human primates has been demonstrated following unilateral lesions of both posterior parietal and prefrontal areas. While it has now been well established that a unilateral lesion of the rodent analog of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, medial agranular cortex (AGm), results in neglect, the effe...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： King VR,Corwin JV

更新日期：1993-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although serotonergic neural systems have been implicated in the control of anxiety for a number of years, evidence in favour of this role is controversial. The present experiments were designed to further characterize the putative role of serotonin (5-HT) in anxiety, using two pharmacologically validated animal model...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Treit D,Robinson A,Rotzinger S,Pesold C

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Four normal and eight cage-reared cats were used. Four of the cage-reared cats were visually deprived in the first 6 months of life. The cats were trained on a three-choice delayed response task to auditory stimuli. All normal cats mastered a 1-min delay and two cats even a 6-min delay. In contrast, two cage-reared ca...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Stasiak M,Zernicki B

更新日期：1993-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the limbic system is highly influential in many areas of the neurosciences and in their applications to clinical medicine. The value of this concept has been questioned, denied, and defended several times in the past but a comprehensive critical evaluation has never been published. In this article we ta...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Kötter R,Meyer N

更新日期：1992-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeys with V4 lesions and unoperated controls were tested behaviourally for their perception of the colour categories red, green, blue and yellow. As expected, the monkeys with V4 lesions took longer to acquire the colour discriminations. However, the pattern of learning was the same in the two groups of animals. Bo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Walsh V,Kulikowski JJ,Butler SR,Carden D

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Opponent-process theory occupies an important place in drug conditioning because it accounts for conditioned drug effects which are opposite to those induced by the drug itself. It has not been established, however, whether there is an opponent-process component to stimulant drug induced conditioned effects. In the pr...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Carey RJ,Damianopoulos EN

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurochemical study of the transsynaptic interactions established between septal GABAergic interneurones and cholinergic septo-hippocampal neurones was conducted using mice. The effects of acute in vivo injections of either muscimol (20-500 ng/0.2 microliter), bicuculline (100 ng-1 micrograms/0.2 microliter) or sali...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Durkin TP

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Single unit activity was recorded from the ventral part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN) in rats anaesthetized with urethane. Most of the cells located laterally in the nucleus were excited by light. The studied vLGN neurones did not respond to electrical stimulation of the tail, but about half of them changed...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Davidowa H,Albrecht D

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinematic studies have indicated that when a subject reaches to grasp an object, the movement consists of two primary components: (a) a transport phase whereby the hand is brought towards the object and (b) a grip phase whereby the hand changes shape in anticipation of the grasp. Using a visual perturbation paradigm, ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Castiello U,Bennett KM,Paulignan Y

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The subnuclei of tuberomammillary nucleus are located in the posterior part of the hypothalamus adjacent to the basolateral surface of the mammillary bodies. The neurons of this nucleus innervate extensive parts of the brain with several transmitters, particularly with histamine. In fact, they represent the only sourc...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Weiler HT,Wagner U,Huston JP

更新日期：1992-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The lighting environment where the baby born prematurely is placed is different from that experienced in utero. As early exposure to light may affect the immature visual system we have attempted to quantify the neonatal ocular light dose. Lighting surveys performed in 7 neonatal units (NNUs) suggested that mean unit i...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Robinson J,Fielder AR

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain nerve growth factor (NGF) was determined in two groups of aged rats: 'good' and 'poor' performers. The animals were selected out of a population of 40 aged rats (26-28 months old) trained in a spatial learning task. Animals performing well in the test had significantly higher NGF in the hippocampus when compared...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Henriksson BG,Söderström S,Gower AJ,Ebendal T,Winblad B,Mohammed AH

更新日期：1992-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual differences in the exploratory response to novelty were found to be related with the vulnerability to develop stress-induced immunological alterations. We studied the effect of exposure to inescapable shock on antibody formation against sheep red blood cells (SRBC) in rats selected according to their locomo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sandi C,Borrell J,Guaza C

更新日期：1992-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to automate a simultaneous visual discrimination system, a Sutherland jumping-stand box was modified by adding two lateral alleys which connect the feeder compartment with the starting box. By means of a digital interface, this modified box was connected to an Apple IIe PC. A group of rats (n = 8) was trained...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Passig C,Pinto-Hamuy T,Jenkins WM,Arraztoa JA,Guadagno H,Olivares R

更新日期：1992-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with hippocampal aspiration lesions (HIPP), cortical control lesions (CORT) or sham operations (SHAM) were trained on a delayed alternation GO/NO-GO task, in which responding was reinforced on odd-numbered GO trials but was not reinforced on even-numbered NO-GO trials. The number of responses required to obtain r...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Foster JK,Rawlins JN

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heterosexual interactions on the in vivo rate of regional brain monoamine synthesis were examined in the male rat. To this end, the animals were administered an inhibitor of cerebral aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, NSD-1015 (100 mg.kg-1 i.p.), and regional brain DOPA and 5-HTP accumulation, over a ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ahlenius S,Hillegaart V,Hjorth S,Larsson K

更新日期：1991-12-20 00:00:00