Author name: Kristen Hartman

Tai S, Ma J, Leung L (2007) Vestibular activation stimulates cholinergic system in the hippocampus. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 399.21/OO13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The vestibular system has been suggested to participate in spatial navigation, a function ascribed to the hippocampus. We examined the mechanisms that induced hippocampal theta, a 4-10 Hz rhythm […]

Burk JA, Altemose KE, Lowder MW (2007) Effects of spatial cueing on visual discrimination performance of rats following loss of basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic neurons. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 424.4/HHH3. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic neurons are necessary for normal attentional performance. However, the exact attentional task parameters that are

Butt AE, Amodeo D, Flesher M, Marsa K, Holt R, Lladones R, Olney R, Haynes J, Kinney-Hurd BL, Dach N (2007) 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the cholinergic basal forebrain disrupt selective attention and trace conditioning but spare delay and long-delay conditioning. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 424.9/HHH8. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Recent research suggests

Arias-Carrion O, Hernandez-Martinez H, Drucker-Colin R (2007) Hypocretin/orexin neuronal loss increases adult neurogenesis. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 456.14/C7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Adult neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) is subjected to physiological regulation and can be modified by brain injuries. The sleep disorder narcolepsy may now be considered a neurodegenerative disease, as

Ma J, Tai S, Leung LWS (2007) Ketamine-induced gating deficit of hippocampal auditory evoked potentials in rats is alleviated by medial septum inactivation and antipsychotic drugs. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 498.12/GG19. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Gating of sensory responses is impaired in schizophrenic patients and animal models of schizophrenia. Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor

Haller J, Toth M, Zelena D, Halasz J (2007) Molecular basis of violent behavior: The role of NK1 receptors. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 531.22/GGG24. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Background. Neurons expressing Neurokinin1 receptor (NK1 or Substance P receptor) are abundant in limbic areas crucial for different emotional behaviors. In recent years, NK1 receptor

Radley JJ, Sawchenko PE (2007) Noradrenergic denervation of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) modulates paraventricular hypothalamic responses to acute restraint stress. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 198.4/ZZ13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The dorsal mPFC is implicated in restricting the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to acute emotional stress via its influence on neuroendocrine effector mechanisms

Sparrow AW, Lowery EG, Thiele TE (2007) Amygdalar neuropeptide Y (NPY) signaling modulates stress-induced reductions of food intake in Balb/cJ mice. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 270.10/X24. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The existing literature suggests that NPY signaling in the amygdala modulates anxiety-like behaviors and ethanol consumption in rodents, but does not modulate food