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Ocular photoreceptor responses were recorded from Hermissenda exposed to compound conditioning, light conditioning, or one of several control treatments. Type A photoreceptors from light-conditioned animals responded with smaller generator potentials than those from untrained animals; type B photoreceptors from light-conditioned animals responded with greater generator potentials and action potential frequencies than cells from controls. These photoresponse changes were accompanied by increases and decreases in the input resistances of type B and A photoreceptors, respectively. The same photoresponse changes occurred in exaggerated form in cells from compound-conditioned animals, but no additional input resistance changes were observed. The results suggest that potentiation of phototactic suppression by compound conditioning involves a facilitation of the same photoreceptor excitability changes produced by mere pairings of light and rotation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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The effects of excitatory classical conditioning on cytochrome oxidase activity in the central auditory system were investigated using quantitative histochemistry. Rats in the conditioned group were trained with consistent pairings of a compound conditional stimulus (a tone and a light) with a mild footshock, to elicit conditioned suppression of drinking. Rats in the pseudorandom group were exposed to pseudorandom presentations of the same tone, light and shock stimuli without consistent pairings. Untrained rats in a naive group did not receive presentations of the experimental stimuli. The findings demonstrated that auditory fear conditioning modifies the metabolic neuronal responses of the auditory system, supporting the hypothesis that sensory neurons are responsive to behavioural stimulus properties acquired by learning. There was a clear distinction between thalamocortical and lower divisions of the auditory system based on the differences in metabolic activity evoked by classical conditioning, which lead to an overt learned behavioural response versus pseudorandom stimulus presentations, which lead to behavioural habituation. Increases in cytochrome oxidase activity indicated that tone processing is enhanced during associative conditioning at upper auditory structures (medial geniculate nucleus and secondary auditory cortices). In contrast, metabolic activation of lower auditory structures (cochlear nuclei and inferior colliculus) in response to the pseudorandom presentation of the experimental stimuli suggest that these areas may be activated during habituation to tone stimuli. Together these findings show that mapping the metabolic activity of cytochrome oxidase with quantitative histochemistry can be successfully used to map regional long-lasting effects of learning on brain systems.  相似文献   

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Intradendritic recordings in Purkinje cells from a defined area in parasaggital slices of cerebellar lobule HVI, obtained after rabbits were given either paired (classical conditioning) or explicitly unpaired (control) presentations of tone and periorbital electrical stimulation, were used to assess the nature and duration of conditioning-specific changes in Purkinje cell dendritic membrane excitability. We found a strong relationship between the level of conditioning and Purkinje cell dendritic membrane excitability after initial acquisition of the conditioned response. Moreover, conditioning-specific increases in Purkinje cell excitability were still present 1 month after classical conditioning. Although dendritically recorded membrane potential, input resistance, and amplitude of somatic and dendritic spikes were not different in cells from paired or control animals, the size of a potassium channel-mediated transient hyperpolarization was significantly smaller in cells from animals that received classical conditioning. In slices of lobule HVI obtained from naive rabbits, the conditioning-related increases in membrane excitability could be mimicked by application of potassium channel antagonist tetraethylammonium chloride, iberiotoxin, or 4-aminopyridine. However, only 4-aminopyridine was able to reduce the transient hyperpolarization. The pharmacological data suggest a role for potassium channels and, possibly, channels mediating an IA-like current, in learning-specific changes in membrane excitability. The conditioning-specific increase in Purkinje cell dendritic excitability produces an afterhyperpolarization, which is hypothesized to release the cerebellar deep nuclei from inhibition, allowing conditioned responses to be elicited via the red nucleus and accessory abducens motorneurons.  相似文献   

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1. Unit activity and excitability were studied at the midlateral and suprasylvian cortex of naive, blink-conditioned and "randomization" cats. The latter received the same CS and US as did the conditioned animals, but in random temporal order and with random intertrial intervals with mean comparable to that used for conditioning. The randomization group failed to develop a blink CR. 2. With conditioning, spontaneous and evoked unit discharges were increased above levels found in naive animals. Correspondingly, levels of extracellularly injected current required to elicit a spike discharge were lower in conditioned than in naive animals. In addition, in the conditioned animals, the degree of enhancement of evoked activity and excitability was found to be greatest in the units that responded to the CS, as opposed to units that responded to another auditory stimulus of equal intensity but of no special behavioral significance vis-a-vis the conditioned reflex. 3...  相似文献   

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Observed neural correlates of associative memory and "forgetting" 1, 6, and 14 days after acquisition of a conditioned response (CR) in the marine snail Hermissenda. Behavioral expression of a light–rotation association, as indexed by contraction of the animal's foot in response to light, dissipated thoughout the 14-day interval such that a CR was observed 1 and 6 days after conditioning but was absent 14 days later. In relation to naive or pseudoconditioned animals, membrane resistance (inversely related to neuronal membrane conductance and directly related to excitability) of the isolated Type B photoreceptor (B cell) was elevated in conditioned animals on Days 1 and 6, whereas no elevation was detectable on Day 14. However, both the behavioral response and the elevated membrane resistance in conditioned animals were hypersensitive to light–rotation pairings (i.e., exhibited "savings") on Day 14, which is indicative of a latent memory trace. In a 2nd experiment, a current-induced depolarization of the B cell after 14 retention days resulted in an increase in input resistance of the B cell membrane in previously conditioned animals but a weaker, transient rise in resistance in B cells from animals exposed to the nonassociative control procedure 14 days earlier.… (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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Evaluated the effects of intraseptal scopolamine hydrobromide (40 μg) injections on Pavlovian (classical) conditioning, with tones used as the CS and a periorbital electric shock train as the UCS, using New Zealand albino rabbits. Eyeblink (EB) and heart rate (HTR) CRs were concomitantly recorded. Although injections of scopolamine into the medial septum impaired the acquisition of the Pavlovian conditioned eyelid reflex, these injections enhanced the magnitude of accompanying Pavlovian conditioned HTR decelerations. However, scopolamine applied to the lateral septal area had no effect on EB conditioning, relative to the vehicle; like medial injections, scopolamine also enhanced the magnitude of the accompanying HTR decelerations. Results are compatible with those of previous investigations indicating that medial septal dysfunction impairs somatomotor conditioning but leaves autonomic conditioning intact and that septal dysfunction produces a parasympathetic bias of the cardiovascular system. (49 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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We made intradendritic recordings in Purkinje cells (n = 164) from parasaggital slices of cerebellar lobule HVI obtained from rabbits given paired presentations of tone and periorbital electrical stimulation (classical conditioning, n = 27) or explicitly unpaired presentations of tone and periorbital stimulation (control, n = 16). Purkinje cell dendritic membrane excitability, assessed by the current required to elicit local dendritic calcium spikes, increased significantly in slices from animals that received classical conditioning. In contrast, membrane potential, input resistance, and amplitude of somatic and dendritic spikes were not different in slices from animals given paired or explicitly unpaired stimulus presentations. The location of cells with low thresholds for local dendritic calcium spikes suggested that there are specific sites for learning-related changes within lobule HVI. These areas may correspond to learning "microzones" and are consistent with locations of learning-related in vivo changes in Purkinje cell activity. Application of 4-aminopyridine, an antagonist of the rapidly inactivating potassium current IA, reduced the threshold for dendritic spikes in slices from naive animals to levels found in slices from trained animals. In cells where thresholds for eliciting parallel fiber-stimulated Purkinje cell excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were measured, levels of parallel fiber stimulation required to elicit a 6-mV EPSP as well as a 4-mV EPSP (n = 30) and a Purkinje cell spike (n = 56) were found to be significantly lower in slices from paired animals than unpaired controls. A classical conditioning procedure was simulated in slices of lobule HVI by pairing a brief, high-frequency train of parallel fiber stimulation (8 pulses, 100 Hz) with a brief, lower frequency train of climbing fiber stimulation (3 pulses, 20 Hz) to the same Purkinje cell. Following paired stimulation of the parallel and climbing fibers, Purkinje cell EPSPs underwent a long-term (> 20 min) reduction in peak amplitude (-24%) in cells (n = 12) from animals given unpaired stimulus presentations but to a far less extent (-9%) in cells (n = 20) from animals given in vivo paired training. Whereas 92% of cells from unpaired animals showed pairing-specific depression, 50% of cells from paired animals showed no depression and in several cases showed potentiation. Our data establish that there are localized learning-specific changes in membrane and synaptic excitability of Purkinje cells in rabbit lobule HVI that can be detected in slices 24 h after classical conditioning. Long-term changes within Purkinje cells that effect this enhanced excitability may occlude pairing-specific long-term depression.  相似文献   

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A series of experiments is described that elucidates the sources of Ca2+ that contribute to activity-dependent neuronal facilitation in Hermissenda B photoreceptors during associative conditioning. In an in vitro preparation, pairings of a 4-s light with a 3-s mechanical stimulation of presynaptic hair cells increased the input resistance and elicited spike rate (i.e., excitability) of the B photoreceptors in the Hermissenda eye, indicative of a Ca(2+)-dependent process that is analogous to associative conditioning in the intact animal. This increase in excitability was reduced but not eliminated when hyperpolarizing current was applied to the B cell during the pairings, suggesting that voltage-dependent influx of Ca2+ contributed only a portion of the total calcium signal necessary for facilitation. Moreover, no increase in excitability was observed when a comparable current-induced depolarization of the photoreceptor was substituted for light-induced depolarization. In other experiments, Ca(2+)-dependent inactivation of a light-induced Na+ current was used as an index of intracellular Ca2+ concentration. It was determined that light caused a large increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration regardless of whether the photoreceptor was allowed to freely depolarize in response to light or was voltage clamped at its resting membrane potential. Current-induced depolarization produced a smaller increase, while presynaptic stimulation had no measurable effect. Intracellular injections of either heparin, an antagonist of intracellular Ca2+ release, or EGTA, a general Ca2+ chelator, induced comparable reductions of light-induced Ca2+ accumulation. Finally, intracellular injections of heparin blocked the pairing-induced increases in B cell excitability as effectively as injections of EGTA. Taken as a whole, these data suggest that Ca2+ release from intracellular stores may be sufficient for the induction of facilitation in this preparation, while Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent channels may have an additive effect and provide further evidence for the ubiquitous role of Ca2+ in learning-related forms of neuronal plasticity.  相似文献   

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The eyes of the nudibranch mollusc Hermissenda contain 2 classes of photoreceptors. Type B photoreceptors exhibit increased light responses (LRs) and membrane excitability after repeated pairings of light and rotation and play an important role in the mediation of associatively produced reductions in phototactic behavior. Type A photoreceptors (TAPs) have also been shown to change with associative training. In previous research it was not possible to determine whether the effects of associative training reflected changes in synaptic input to TAPs or intrinsic changes in somatic conductances. In the present study, intracellular recordings from synaptically isolated TAPs were obtained on retention days after training, and pairing-specific decreases in light-induced generator potentials and decreases in resting input resistance were observed. Current- and voltage-clamp analysis of TAPs from untrained animals revealed that an important determinant of the steady-state LR was a calcium-activated K+ current (IK–Ca). Thus, TAPs also appear to be a primary site for associative information storage in Hermissenda. It is suggested that enhancement of IK–Ca by associative training may contribute to the diminished LR of TAPs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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Presynaptic facilitation revisited: state and time dependence   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
The mechanisms underlying short-term presynaptic facilitation, the enhancement of transmitter release from sensory neurons in Aplysia, induced by serotonin (5-HT), can be divided into two categories: (1) changes in ionic conductances leading to spike broadening and enhancement of Ca2+ influx; and (2) actions on the machinery for transmitter release that are independent of spike broadening and the resulting increases in Ca2+ influx. Spike broadening and the associated enhancement of excitability are induced by the modulation of K+ conductances in the sensory neuron. The cellular mechanisms that contribute to the enhancement of release that is independent of spike broadening are not known and may involve vesicle mobilization or other steps in exocytotic release. These two facilitatory actions of 5-HT are mediated by at least two second-messenger-activated protein kinase systems, protein kinase A (PKA) and protein kinase C (PKC). These two second-messenger cascades overlap in their contributions to synaptic facilitation. However, their relative contributions to enhancement of transmitter release are not simply synergistic but are state- and time-dependent. The state dependence is a reflection of the synapse's previous history of activity. When the synapse is rested (and not depressed), a brief pulse of 5-HT (lasting from 10 sec to 5 min) produces its actions primarily through PKA via both spike broadening-dependent and -independent mechanisms. The broadening primarily involves the modulation of a voltage-dependent K+ current, IKV, with a small contribution by a voltage-independent K+ current, IKS. By contrast, the enhancement of excitability is mediated primarily by the modulation of IKS. As the synapse becomes depressed with repeated activity, the contribution of PKC becomes progressively more important. As is the case with PKA, PKC produces its action both by broadening the spike via modulation of IKV and by a spike broadening-independent mechanism. In addition to being state-dependent, the mechanisms of facilitation are time-dependent. There are differences in the response to 5-HT when it is given briefly to produce short-term facilitation or when the exposure is prolonged. When exposure is brief (< or = 5 min), PKA dominates. When exposure is prolonged (10-20 min), PKC becomes dominant as it is with depressed synapses. Thus, synaptic plasticity appears to be expressed in several overlapping time domains, and the transition between very short-term facilitation and various intermediate duration phases seems to involve interactive processes between the kinases.  相似文献   

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Using Hermissenda as subjects, massed-trials training deficits were examined. Associative pairings of light and rotation induced a progressively greater conditioned foot contraction in response to light as the intertrial interval (ITI) was extended (up to 8 min). In contrast, a short ITI (30 s) produced no evidence of learning. In a corresponding in vitro conditioning experiment that mimicked training of the intact animal, facilitation of neuronal excitability in the animal's B photoreceptors paralleled the results obtained in vivo. Imaging of intracellular Ca2+ using Fura-2 indicated that Ca2+ levels remained elevated during short ITIs. This Ca2+ accumulation appears to induce activation of protein phosphatases because normal facilitation of the B photoreceptors was induced with a short ITI if training occurred in the presence of a phosphatase inhibitor. These results suggest that intracellular Ca2+ and protein phosphatases contribute interactively to the kinetics of memory formation and provide evidence that an accumulation of intracellular Ca2+ across training trials may impede memory formation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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With the invertebrate Hermissenda as subjects, variability in acquisition of a learned association between light and rotation was correlated with the magnitude of the unconditioned responses elicited by these stimuli. Moreover, learning was facilitated by increasing stimulus intensity. In the isolated nervous system, pairings of light and mechanical stimulation of the animal's vestibular hair cells resulted in an increase in the excitability of B photoreceptors (an in vitro index of learning) that was strongly correlated with the strength of the synaptic interaction between the hair cells and the photoreceptors and weakly correlated with the magnitude of the light response in the photoreceptors. Because these in vitro results are not attributable to motor or motivational variables, they suggest that the efficacy of synaptic integration between sensory systems and sensory transduction is the primary determinant of the variability in learning.  相似文献   

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Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) influences the differentiation and survival of retinal photoreceptors in vivo and in vitro, but it is not known whether it acts directly on photoreceptor FGF receptors or indirectly through activation of surrounding cells. To clarify the effects of FGF-2 on photoreceptor survival, we developed a purified photoreceptor culture system. The outer nuclear layers of postnatal day 5-15 rat retinas were isolated by vibratome sectioning, and the photoreceptor fractions obtained were enzymatically dissociated. Photoreceptors were maintained in monolayer culture for 1 week in a chemically defined medium. Immunocytochemical labeling showed that >99.5% of cells were photoreceptors, and glial contamination represented approximately 0. 2%. Photoreceptors from postnatal day 5-9 retinas survived for at least 24 hr in vitro, whereas cells from postnatal day 10-15 retinas died rapidly. Subsequent studies performed with postnatal day 5 photoreceptors showed that their survival was increased in a dose-dependent manner after the addition of FGF-2. In control cultures, 36% of originally seeded photoreceptors were alive after 5 d in vitro, and in the presence of 20 ng/ml FGF-2 this number was doubled to 62%. This increase was not caused by proliferation of photoreceptor precursors. Denaturing or blocking FGF-2 prevented enhancement of survival. Conversely, only 25.5% of photoreceptors survived in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF). FGF- and EGF-receptor mRNA and proteins were detected in purified photoreceptors in vitro, and addition of FGF-2 or EGF led to tyrosine phosphorylation of photoreceptor proteins. These data support a direct mechanism of action for FGF-2 stimulation of photoreceptor survival.  相似文献   

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In behaving Hermissenda, a preparatory conditioned response developed across repeated pairings of light (conditioned stimulus; CS) and rotation (unconditioned stimulus; US) with intertrial intervals (ITIs) of 60 and 120 s, but not 30 s. Likewise, contiguous in vitro stimulation of the visual and vestibular receptors, an analog of behavioral conditioning, resulted in an increase in the input resistance (i.e., excitability, a correlate of conditioning) of the B photoreceptors of the Hermissenda's eye, but only with ITIs greater than 60 s. Calcium signaling in the B cell, critical to the induction of this neuronal plasticity, was attenuated with shorter ITIs owing to (a) a reduction of the light-induced generator potential and hence voltage-dependent Ca2+ influx during the light CS, (b) a depression of the Ca2+ current that persisted throughout shorter ITIs, and (c) a steady-state inactivation of the Ca2+ current as a result of a sustained depolarization persisting from the previous trial. These results are consistent with a 2-process theory of associative learning in which a primary process (Ca2+ influx) may be opposed by a secondary process (depression of the Ca2+ current) during short ITIs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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Calcium-phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (PKC) has long been suggested to play an important role in modulating synaptic efficacy. We have created a strain of mice that lacks the gamma subtype of PKC to evaluate the significance of this brain-specific PKC isozyme in synaptic plasticity. Mutant mice are viable, develop normally, and have synaptic transmission that is indistinguishable from wild-type mice. Long-term potentiation (LTP), however, is greatly diminished in mutant animals, while two other forms of synaptic plasticity, long-term depression and paired-pulse facilitation, are normal. Surprisingly, when tetanus to evoke LTP was preceded by a low frequency stimulation, mutant animals displayed apparently normal LTP. We propose that PKC gamma is not part of the molecular machinery that produces LTP but is a key regulatory component.  相似文献   

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The medial division of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGm) and the posterior intralaminar nucleus (PIN) are necessary for conditioning to an auditory conditioned stimulus/stimuli (CS), receive both auditory and somatosensory input, and project to the amygdala, which is involved in production of fear conditioned responses (CRs). If CS–unconditioned stimulus (UCS) convergence in the MGm-PIN is critical for fear conditioning, then microstimulation of this area should serve as an effective UCS during classical conditioning, in place of standard footshock. Guinea pigs underwent conditioning (40–60 trials) using a tone as the CS and medial geniculate complex microstimulation as the UCS. Conditioning bradycardia developed when the UCS electrodes were in the PIN. However, microstimulation was not an effective UCS for conditioning in other parts of the medial geniculate or for sensitization training in the PIN or elsewhere. Learning curves were similar to those found previously for footshock UCS. Thus, the PIN can be a locus of functional CS–UCS convergence for fear conditioning to acoustic stimuli. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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Operant conditioning of the primate triceps surae H-reflex, the electrical analog of the spinal stretch reflex, creates a memory trace that includes changes in the spinal cord. To define the morphological correlates of this plasticity, we analyzed the synaptic terminal coverage of triceps surae motoneurons from animals in which the triceps surae H-reflex in one leg had been increased (HRup mode) or decreased (HRdown mode) by conditioning and compared them to each other and to motoneurons from unconditioned animals. Motoneurons were labeled by intramuscular injection of cholera toxin-horseradish peroxidase. A total of 5055 terminals on the cell bodies and proximal dendrites of 114 motoneurons from 14 animals were studied by electron microscopy. Significant differences were found between HRup and HRdown animals and between HRup and naive (i.e., unconditioned) animals. F terminals (i.e., putative inhibitory terminals) were smaller and their active zone coverage on the cell body was lower on motoneurons from the conditioned side of HRup animals than on motoneurons from the conditioned side of HRdown animals. C terminals (i.e., terminals associated with postsynaptic cisterns and rough endoplasmic reticulum) were smaller and the number of C terminals in each C complex (i.e., a group of contiguous C terminals) was larger on motoneurons from the conditioned side of HRup animals than on motoneurons either from the conditioned side of HRdown animals or from naive animals. Because the treatment of HRup and HRdown animals differed only in the reward contingency, the results imply that the two contingencies had different effects on motoneuron synaptic terminals. In combination with other recent data, they show that H-reflex conditioning produces a complex pattern of spinal cord plasticity that includes changes in motoneuron physiological properties as well as in synaptic terminals. Further delineation of this pattern should reveal the contribution of the structural changes described here to the learned change in behavior.  相似文献   

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Ethanol has been reported to interact with numerous voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels in central mammalian neurons. In particular, the type A gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptor/chloride ionophore complex has received considerable attention as a cellular substrate for ethanol and other sedative-hypnotic drugs. Direct electrophysiological evidence that ethanol modulates GABAA receptor function has been controversial. In this study, we investigated the effects of ethanol on the GABAA receptors that mediate fast inhibitory synaptic transmission in the rat hippocampus. Using the whole-cell patch-clamp recording technique in brain slices, we found that clinically relevant concentrations of ethanol (10-50 mM) potentiate pharmacologically isolated GABAA-mediated inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) recorded from rat hippocampal CA1 neurons. In addition, we demonstrate that ethanol- but not diazepam-mediated enhancement of GABAA IPSCs requires intracellular ATP and can be blocked by Ro-31-8220 or PKC19-31, specific inhibitors of protein kinase C. Furthermore, the active phorbol ester 4-beta-PDBu but not its inactive analog also interferes with ethanol enhancement of GABAA IPSCs. These results demonstrate that ethanol potentiation of pharmacologically isolated GABAA IPSCs can be modulated by protein kinase C.  相似文献   

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Rabbits and rats received horseradish peroxidase injections in the medial prefrontal cortex. and retrograde labeling was examined in the hippocampus (HC) and subicular complex (SC). Labeled cells were observed in HC and SC in the rat, but only in the SC of the rabbit. In a second experiment, separate groups of rabbits with sham, SC, or cortical control lesions were subjected to differential classical heart rate conditioning, in which 4-s, 75-db tones served as conditioned stimuli and a 3-mA paraorbital shock was the unconditioned stimulus. Although conditioned bradycardia was obtained in animals with SC lesions, it was slower to develop and was much shorter in duration than in the cortical and sham control groups. In the animals with SC lesions, the bradycardiac response was quickly replaced with tachycardia, suggesting a sympathetic bias in these animals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)  相似文献   

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