Author name: Kristen Hartman

Greene DM, Castillo MR, Alexander KA, McMahan A, Raap DK, Bult-Ito A (2005) Neurotoxic lesions of serotonin cells in the dorsal raphe reduce compulsive-like nest building in mice. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 796.10. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Bi-directional selection for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior in house mice (Mus musculus) has resulted in a 40-fold difference […]

Truitt WA, Oberlin BG, Dietrich AD, Fitz SD, Shekhar A (2005) Neurokinin 1 receptor containing interneurons of the BLA are putative candidates for the inhibitory component of feed-forward inhibition from the mPFC to the BLA. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 796.12. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The amygdala and in particular the basolateral nucleus of the

Zhang W, Gardell SE, Xie Y, Luo M, Rance NE, Vanderah TW, Porreca F, Lai J (2005) Pain facilitatory cells in the rostral ventromedial medulla coexpress opioid-μ receptors and cholecystokinin type 2 receptors. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 394.17. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Pain transmission can be modulated by descending input to the spinal dorsal

Vander Schaaf EB, Lusk JD, Jarrard LE, I’Anson H (2005) Immunotoxic destruction of catecholaminergic pathways disrupts the onset of puberty in the female rat. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 406.10. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Ascending catecholaminergic (NE/E) pathways from the brainstem terminate near gonadotropin releasing hormone cell bodies and terminals in the hypothalamus. To determine

Maddux JM, Chatterjee S, Kerfoot EC, Holland PC (2005) Distinct roles for amygdala central nucleus, medial prefrontal cortex, and posterior parietal cortex in attention for learning and action. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 411.16. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Many theories of associative learning claim that the accuracy with which an event predicts its consequences affects

Rinaman L, Maldovan V (2005) Experimental dissociation of neural circuits underlying anorexic and conditioned avoidance responses to LiCl in rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 529.7. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) receives viscerosensory input from noradrenergic (NA) neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and from peptidergic

Mattsson A, Schilstrum B, Svensson TH, Olson L (2005) Cortical cholinergic deficiency enhances amphetamine-induced dopamine release in accumbens. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 557.8. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Disturbances in cholinergic functions have been implicated in schizophrenia. We have recently shown that cholinergic denervation of neocortex produced by local injection of the immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin

Coolen LM, Amstalden KAZ, Allard J (2005) Involvement of lumbar spinothalamic cells in relay of sensory cues related to vaginocervical stimulation in female rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 321.13. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The rat lumbar spinal cord contains a population of galanin containing spinothalamic (LSt) cells, which in male rats play a pivotal