Appetitive Behavior - Drug effects
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in appetitive and aversive memory recall in an insect.

2 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: In insect classical conditioning, octopamine (the invertebrate counterpart of noradrenaline) or dopamine has been suggested to mediate reinforcing properties of appetitive or aversive unconditioned stimulus, respectively. However, the ... Read more...

Pheromone-induced olfactory memory in newborn rabbits: Involvement of consolidation and reconsolidation processes.

20 Jul 2009 Mammary pheromone (MP)-induced odor memory is a new model of appetitive memory functioning early in a mammal, the newborn rabbit. Some properties of this associative memory are analyzed by the use of anisomycin as an amnesic agent. Long-term memory ... Read more...

Which cue to "want?" Central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue.

18 May 2009 The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) helps translate learning into motivation, and here, we show that opioid stimulation of CeA magnifies and focuses learned incentive salience onto a specific reward cue (pavlovian conditioned stimulus, or CS). ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Appetitive Behavior - Drug effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in appetitive and aversive memory recall in an insect. 2 Aug 2009
• Pheromone-induced olfactory memory in newborn rabbits: Involvement of consolidation and reconsolidation processes. 20 Jul 2009
• Which cue to "want?" Central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue. 18 May 2009
• Renewal and spontaneous recovery, but not latent inhibition, are mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid in appetitive conditioning. 30 Mar 2009
• Hedonic sensitivity in adolescent and adult rats: taste reactivity and voluntary sucrose consumption. 28 Feb 2009
• Identification of human-derived volatile chemicals that interfere with attraction of the Scottish biting midge and their potential use as repellents. 27 Feb 2009
• Tic hydantoin sigma-1 agonist: pharmacological characterization on cocaine-induced stimulant and appetitive effects. 24 Feb 2009
• Appetitive and consummatory ingestive behaviors stimulated by PVH and perifornical area NPY injections. 2 Feb 2009
• Acquired appetitive responding to intravenous nicotine reflects a Pavlovian conditioned association. 30 Jan 2009
• There is no magic fruit fly trap: multiple biological factors influence the response of adult Anastrepha ludens and Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) individuals to MultiLure traps baited with BioLure or NuLure. 30 Jan 2009
• Floral attractants for the female soybean looper, Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). 29 Nov 2008
• Differential endocannabinoid regulation of extinction in appetitive and aversive Barnes maze tasks. 26 Oct 2008
• Skilled forelimb reaching in Wistar rats: evaluation by means of Montoya staircase test. 15 Oct 2008
• Effects of rimonabant on behavior maintained by progressive ratio schedules of sucrose reinforcement in obese Zucker (fa/fa) rats. 29 Sep 2008
• Microdialysis elevation of adenosine in the basal forebrain produces vigilance impairments in the rat psychomotor vigilance task. 29 Sep 2008
• Response of Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) to terminal diamines in a food-based synthetic attractant. 29 Sep 2008
• mGluR5 antagonism attenuates methamphetamine reinforcement and prevents reinstatement of methamphetamine-seeking behavior in rats. 15 Sep 2008
• Adolescent but not adult rats exhibit ethanol-mediated appetitive second-order conditioning. 6 Sep 2008
• Repeated intravenous amphetamine exposure: rapid and persistent sensitization of 50-kHz ultrasonic trill calls in rats. Sep 2008
• [Behavioral response of Anopheles albimanus to volatile compounds collected inside houses from the south of Chiapas, Mexico] 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Appetitive Behavior'

Definition: Animal searching behavior. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behavior pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating.

Descriptor UI: D001070

Alternative terms: Appetitive Behavior; Appetitive Behaviors; Behavior, Appetitive; Behaviors, Appetitive; Searching Behavior; Behavior, Searching; Behaviors, Searching; Searching Behaviors;

Related Mesh Headings: Ceremonial Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.113.111;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: usually animal; introduct phase of instinctive behav; nothing to do with APPETITE, the desire for food