In order to examine sex differences in non sexual behavior, 40 rats of each sex from two strains (gray, A × C and albino, Sprague-Dawley) were trained, using different experimental procedures. In Experiment I, aversive ...

Background A considerable amount of experimental evidence has demonstrated ethanol (EtOH) induced amnestic effects following EtOH administration during pretraining in a variety of tasks both in humans and in laboratory ...

Although the memory deficits produced by pre-training benzodiazepines administration have been extensively demonstrated both in humans and in animal studies, there is considerable controversy about the involvement of the ...

The plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT) has been used to investigate interactions between aversive memory and an anxiety-like response in rodents. Suitable performance in this task depends on the activity of ...

Treatment of major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder and other psychopathologies with antidepressants can be associated with improvement of the cognitive deficits related to these disorders. Although the mechanisms ...

The experiment reported here uses a conditional self-discrimination task to examine the influence of social interaction on the facilitation of selfdiscrimination in rats. The study is based on a previous report (Penagos- ...

Rationale: the contradictory amphetamine effects on memory could be due to different protocols of amphetamine administration or the well-known anxiogenic effect of the drug. Objective: the effects of different protocols ...

The amnesic effects of morphine may be related to its action on nociception, anxiety, or locomotion. This effect is also suggested to be related to state dependency.The aims of this study were to verify the effects of ...

The use and the demand for substances that enhance masculinity, strength and sexual power are not novel. Over the years, this search has assisted the research directions in this area, leading to the discovery of the primary ...