Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience, Second Edition

by Buccafusco; Jerry J.

• ISBN13: 9781420052343
• ISBN10: 1420052349
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

"With contributions from more than 40 field specialists, Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience reflects six years worth of updates to its first edition and elucidates new behavioral approaches that are quickly becoming field standards." "With step-by-step, easy-to-reproduce methodologies, this focused work covers well-studied behavioral approaches that provide a better understanding of the effects of disease and allow for better predictability of the effects of new therapeutic treatments on the human cognition."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Editor	p. xv
Contributors	p. xvii
Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease: Behavioral Testing and Considerations	p. 1
Cued and Contextual Fear Conditioning for Rodents	p. 19
Drug Discrimination	p. 39
Conditioned Place Preference	p. 59
Anxiety-Related Behaviors in Mice	p. 77
Behavioral Assessment of Antidepressant Activity in Rodents	p. 103
Assessing Attention in Rodents	p. 119
The Behavioral Assessment of Sensorimotor Processes in the Mouse: Acoustic Startle, Sensory Gating, Locomotor Activity, Rotarod, and Beam Walking	p. 145
Intravenous Drug Self-Administration in Nonhuman Primates	p. 179
Contextually Induced Drug Seeking During Protracted Abstinence in Rats	p. 199
Operant Analysis of Fronto-striatal Function in Rodents	p. 215
Working Memory: Delayed Response Tasks in Monkeys	p. 247
Spatial Navigation (Water Maze) Tasks	p. 267
Water Maze Tasks in Mice: Special Reference to Alzheimer's Transgenic Mice	p. 281
Behavioral Neuroscience of Zebrafish	p. 293
Caenorhabditis elegans Model for Initial Screening and Mechanistic Evaluation of Potential New Drugs for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease	p. 311
The Revival of Scopolamine Reversal for the Assessment of Cognition-Enhancing Drugs	p. 329
Index	p. 345
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