Author name: Kristen Hartman

Winters BD, Robbins TW, Everitt BJ (2004) Selective cholinergic denervation of the cingulate cortex impairs the acquisition and performance of a conditional visual discrimination in rats. Eur J Neurosci 19(2):490-496. doi: 10.1111/j.0953-816x.2003.03157.x Summary: Performance in conditional discrimination tasks is thought to be controlled at least in part by the cingulate cortex and its basal forebrain

Chang Q, Gold PE (2004) Impaired and spared cholinergic functions in the hippocampus after lesions of the medial septum/vertical limb of the diagonal band with 192 IgG-saporin. Hippocampus 14(2):170-179. doi: 10.1002/hipo.10160 Summary: 192-Saporin has been widely used to eliminate cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain. These lesions can produce near-total loss of choline acetyltranferase (ChAT)-positive

Parent MB, Baxter MG (2004) Septohippocampal acetylcholine: involved in but not necessary for learning and memory?. Learn Mem 11:9-20. doi: 10.1101/lm.69104 Summary: In this review the authors describe some of the methods and rationale behind the investigation of hippocampal acetylcholine and its role in the support of learning and memory processes. Results produced by the

Smith JE, Co C, Yin X, Sizemore GM, Liguori A, Johnson WE 3rd, Martin TJ (2004) Involvement of cholinergic neuronal systems in intravenous cocaine self-administration. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 27(8):841-850. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2003.11.002 Summary: Recent studies have demonstrated that cholinergic neurons take part in the process of cocaine self-administration. In this study the authors used 0.25 µg-injections