Themes
AMNESIA
The papers in this section contain references to amnesia induction and not in all cases where learning and memory impairment is induced.
AVOIDANCE
The papers refer to the use of active and passive avoidance conditioning techniques.
BODY TEMPERATURE
This section includes papers that investigate body temperature and papers that examine the effects of changes in environmental temperature on body temperature.
BRAIN IMAGING
This section includes papers that using MRI, PET and EEG detect quantitative images of cerebral functionality/activity.
CEREBRAL CORTEX
These papers refer to various areas of the cerebral cortex; they do not include perirhinal and entorhinal cortices to which specific pages are dedicated.
CLASSICAL PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING
This section collects papers in which Pavlovian conditioning techniques are employed when ad hoc themes are not present (such as avoidance, conditioned taste aversion or conditioned emotional response).
CONDITIONED AND UNCONDITIONED INHIBITION
This section collects papers that investigate phenomena of conditioned inhibition and Pavlovian unconditioned inhibition, when ad hoc pages are not present (such as extinction, latent inhibition, habituation).
CONTEXTUAL PRE-EXPOSURE AND RETRAINING
These papers investigate pre-training and subsequent re-training; moreover, the section also includes papers where exposure to some stimuli preceded or followed another one not necessarily related to latent inhibition phenomenon.
DARK/LIGHT CONTEXT
This section includes papers that use this apparatus for both active and passive avoidance conditioning and to measure exploratory activity in environments with different brightness intensity.
ELECTRIC/MAGNETIC CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULATION
In this section the papers applied electric, magnetic, optical stimulation or X-ray irradiation to brain structures. It also included operant self-stimulation experiments.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
In this section the papers analyze social behavior and environmental enrichment-dependent behaviors.
EXPLORATORY ACTIVITY
These papers measure exploratory activity also in relation to “anxiety” as the performed measure relates to this activity.
FEAR AND RELATED BEHAVIORS
The section collects papers that deal with all aspects of fear (such as fear conditioning, freezing response, stress and footshock/punishment-dependent fear).
FEEDING AND DRINKING
This section includes papers that use particular diets and papers that measure these activities.
GENERALIZATION
These papers investigate Pavlovian generalization.
GLUTAMATE
The papers on NMDA are reported in specific pages.
LATERALITY AND ASYMMETRICAL INTERVENTIONS
The section includes papers that refer both to functional asymmetries and to treatments performed unilaterally on the brain.
LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY
The papers in this section measure mostly locomotor activity, but also motricity as such.
LUMINANCE AND VISION
These papers investigate vision function and the importance of the environmental light intensity.
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS APPLIED TO BEHAVIOR
These papers explicit the algorithms that indicate biological phenomena and computational analysis of events.
NEURAL REVERSIBLE INACTIVATIONS
The section includes papers that perform treatments which inhibit neuronal activity without considering the involved mechanisms (temperature, sodium channels blockade, GABA agonists, etc.).
NEUROGENESIS AND PLASTICITY
The papers in this section report changes in neuronal and/or synaptic growth and development.
NOCICEPTION
In these papers was considered different nociceptive intensity stimulation not only for the nociception study.
NOOTROPICS
These papers test possible positive effects of substances on learning and memory.
PROTEINS AND GENES
These papers analyze protein, protein synthesis and genes roles. Papers, in which genetic mutations are induced to determine targeted function modifications, are included in ad hoc pages.
SCHEDULE INDUCED CONDITIONING AND BEHAVIOR
The section collects papers in which different paradigms of operant and Pavlovian conditioning are used.
SMELL
This section includes papers that use olfactory stimulation and investigate olfactory system function.
STEROTYPED BEHAVIORS
This section refers in particular to work on rodents, but also to other species, in which grooming, stretching, yawning, buryig and rearing behaviors are investigated.
STRIATUM
These papers refer to nuclei of the corpus striatum (such as globus pallidus, caudato-putamen, subthalamic nucleus ) for which there are not ad hoc pages.
TASTE
This section includes both papers that use gustatory stimulation and papers that investigate condtioned taste aversion.
UNSPECIFIC ASCENDING ACTIVATING SYSTEM PROJECTION
These papers investigated cerebral structures related to this system which have not ad hoc pages (such as tegmental nuclei).