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1. Relation of rat brain acetylcholine levels to duration of self-stimulation and escape behavior

Domino, Edward F., Wilson, Ann E., Olds, Marianne E.,

Total brain acetylcholine (ACh) was assayed in groups of animals after various periods of operant responding maintained by electrical stimulation of the lateral posterior hypothalamus or of escape beh...

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2. Cortical GABAA receptors in nucleus basalis magnocellularis-lesioned rats : pre and post transplantation-related behavioral effects

Leblanc, Patrick.,

Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been shown to involve impairments in both cognitive function and affective behavior. Animal models of AD, to date, have largely ignored the affective components of the dis...

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3. Dissecting anxiety in the vervet monkey : a search for association between polymorphisms in the corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) genes and anxious behavior

Elbejjani, Martine.,

The involvement of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the pathophysiology of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders is well established. The objective of this study is to...

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4. Sexual selections: what we can and can't learn about sex from animals

Zuk, M. (Marlene),

Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is ...

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5. Public perceptions of behavioral enrichment: Assumptions gone awry

McPhee, M. E., Foster, J. S., Sevenich, M., Saunders, C. D.,

More and more, zoos are integrating behavioral enrichment programs into their management routines. Given the newness of such programs on an official level, however, there are an increasing number of e...

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6. Enuresis, fire setting, and animal cruelty: A useful danger signal in predicting vulnerability of adolescent males to assaultive behavior

Wax, Douglas E., Haddox, Victor G.,

Current shifts in corrective and rehabilitation planning result in an emphasis upon primary prevention efforts involving early identification and intervention with vulnerable children who run high ris...

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7. Effects of odors on behaviors of captive Amur leopards Panthera pardus orientalis

Shangying YU Zhigang JIANG Hui ZHU Chunwang LI Enquan ZHANG Jinguo ZHANG Carin HARRINGTON,

Captive environments often fail to resemble the wild environment in respects of limited space, unchanging habitat, lack of stimulus and contingency. Common animal welfare problems which occur in capti...

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8. Electrophysiological and behavioral effects of transcortical polarizing current: comparison with the behaviorally determined characteristics of learning

Szeligo, F. V.,

Passage of polarizing current through the cerebral cortex, with the anode at the surface (Anp), produces neurophysiological changes which may be related to those which occur during learning. The relat...

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9. Aggression, anxiety and vocalizations in animals: GABA A and 5-HT anxiolytics

Barros, H. M., Miczek, K. A., Weerts, E. M., Vivian, Jeffrey A.,

A continuing challenge for preclinical research on anxiolytic drugs is to capture the affective dimension that characterizes anxiety and aggression, either in their adaptive forms or when they become ...

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10. Selective Breeding for Divergence in Novelty-seeking Traits: Heritability and Enrichment in Spontaneous Anxiety-related Behaviors

Stead, John D. H., Clinton, Sarah, Neal, Charles, Schneider, Johanna, Jama, Abas, Miller, Sue, Vazqu...

Outbred Sprague–Dawley rats can be classified as high responders (HR) or low responders (LR) based on their levels of exploratory locomotion in a novel environment. While this novelty-seeking dimensio...

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