Avoidance behaviors are central to the anxiety disorders and implicated in many other forms of psychopathology, but the reinforcing mechanism of avoidance remains largely elusive. It has been suggested that subjective ...

The influence of posttraining subcutaneous administration of luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) was tested on the retention of either active or passive avoidance conditioning in male rats. Injection of LHRH ...

Locomotion generates a visual movement pattern characterized as optic flow. To explore how the locomotor adjustments are affected by this pattern, an experimental paradigm was developed to eliminate optic flow during ...

The learning, retention and relearning of an instrumental visual avoidance response was studied in 98 rats, including normal rats and those with frontal, somatic, visual and auditory ablations. Significant differences were ...

Background: Objective measures of gait in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients according to motor subtypes are not yet fully understood. Although recent advances have been made for unobstructed walking, further work is required ...

Inbreeding depression refers to a decrease in fitness components in the offspring of closely related sexual pairs. Given the disadvantages of inbreeding depression, it is of interest to study the mechanisms involved in ...

The effects of fencamfamine (1.0 and 5.0 mg/kg, ip, single dose) on an inhibitory task were studied in rats (N = 15 per group). Post-training treatment with fencamfamine (1.0 mg/kg) significantly increased avoidance latency ...