The present research was initiated to examine the prevalence of forced consumption and its
role in subsequent food rejection. A forced consumption episode was defined as a situation …

Importance Selecting effective antidepressants for the treatment of major depressive disorder
(MDD) is an imprecise practice, with remission rates of about 30% at the initial treatment. …

In mammals, long-term memory induced by Pavlovian fear conditioning has been shown to
be dependent on the amygdala during a protein and mRNA synthesis-dependent phase of …

Importance Serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression,
are heritable, highly multifactorial disorders and major causes of disability worldwide. …

… At surgery, rat weights ranged from 275 to 350 g. … The olfactory CS and the means for
delivering it have been described in detail elsewhere (Paschall and Davis 2002). In brief, a …

Introduction. Self-assessment deficits are common in schizophrenia and span multiple
aspects of functioning, including awareness of symptoms, and the ability to assess objective …

… The rats weighed 300–400 g at the start of each behavioral procedure and were housed
in groups of 4 in polypropylene boxes (45 cm long × 25 cm wide × 20 cm high) at the Emory …

Importance Many psychiatric outcomes share a common etiologic pathway reflecting
behavioral disinhibition, generally referred to as externalizing (EXT) disorders. Recent genome-…

… DEN solution (0.1 g of DEN dissolved in … g by comparing the weights of the tubes before
and after drinking. All of the intakes were recorded to the nearest 0.1 g, and we assume that 1 g …

Recently, we reported that discrete (4-sec) olfactory cues paired with footshock serve as
effective conditioned stimuli (CSs) for potentiating the acoustic startle response in rats using the …