Author name: Kristen Hartman

Conner JM, Chiba AA, Tuszynski MH (2004) The basal forebrain cholinergic system is essential for cortical plasticity and functional recovery following brain injury. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 685.12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Localized damage to the motor cortex typically results in impaired motor function. Functional recovery following focal brain injury presumably requires the […]

Tait DS, Brown VJ (2004) Cell-body lesions of basal forebrain impair reversal learning but not attentional set-shifting in rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 779.12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: There is considerable evidence for a role of basal forebrain acetylcholine in a wide range of attentional tasks (see Sarter & Bruno, 2000, Neurosci, 95:933-952),

Cordova CA, Yu AJ, Chiba AA (2004) Attention, uncertainty, and acetylcholine: Effects of nucleus basalis cholinergic lesions on probabilistic inference. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 779.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Animal investigations suggest that the basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic system helps to regulate attention to unpredictable events. In light of these findings, computational theorists

Taylor CL, Rostron PR, Latimer MP, Winn P (2004) Behavioral characteristics of pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus lesioned and nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesioned rats in a test of vigilance. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 780.4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previous work has shown pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) lesioned rats make more omissions on a vigilance task

Truitt WA, Dietrich AD, Fitz SD, Minick PE, Shekhar A (2004) Neurokinin 1 receptor expressing interneurons of the BLA regulate anxiety-like responses in the rat. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 782.5. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The Basolateral Nucleus of the Amygdala (BLA) has been implicated in the regulation and development of anxiety. In general,

Ricceri L, Scattoni ML, Cutuli D, Calamandrei G (2004) Effects of neonatal cholinergic lesions on fear conditioning in 18-day-old rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.9. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: We have previously shown that neonatal intracerebroventricular (icv) injections of the selective cholinergic immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin on postnatal day (pnd) 7 induces behavioural alterations

Benassi SK, Blanco MM, Mello LE (2004) Electrophysiological profile of IgG192saporin-lesioned rats in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 452.14. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In order to investigate the importance of the basal forebrain cholinergic reorganization to the epileptogenesis process, adult male Wistar EPM-1 rats (180-220g) were subjected to status

Bailey AL, Bennett G, Ribeiro-da-Silva A (2004) Investigation of the functional role of non-peptidergic primary afferent sensory fibres in the transmission of pain related information. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 484.1. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: It is well established that small diameter, unmyelinated, primary afferent C-fibres can be divided into two neurochemically defined populations,

McGaughy JA, Koene R, Eichenbaum HB, Hasselmo ME (2004) Effects of cholinergic deafferentation of prefrontal cortex on working memory: A convergence of behavioral and modeling results. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 551.7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In humans, the prefrontal and medial temporal lobe areas are differentially activated during working memory dependent upon the

Stead S, Doering LC (2004) A novel mouse model for Parkinson’s disease using an immunotoxin directed at the dopamine transporter. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 563.1. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Current laboratory models of Parkinson’s disease utilize neurotoxins directed at midbrain dopamine neurons to mimic nigro-striatal dopaminergic neuron degeneration. To date, however, there is