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Sunday, September 9: SESSION 1 DRUGS OF ABUSE 1. Cocaine sensitization and reward are bidirectionally modulated by per 1 and per 2 genes: C. Abarca, U. Albrecht and R. Spanagel (Germany) 2. NIDA medications discovery programs: efficacy- and safety-related testing: J. B. Acri, N. Appel, D. J. McCann and A. Patel (USA) 3. Peculiar vulnerability to nicotine oral self-administration in mice during early adolescence: W. Adriani, S. Macrì, G. Laviola and R. Pacifi (Italy) 4. Novelty-seeking behaviour and operant oral ethanol self-administration in Wistar rats: P. Bienkowski, E. Koros and W. Kostowski (Poland) 5. Differential AMPA antagonist potentiation of 7-OH-DPAT effects on CPP, ICSS and locomotor activity: A. M. Biondo, R. L. H. Clements and A. J. Greenshaw (Canada) 6. Neuronal nicotinic receptors containing the alpha-2 subunit mediate the depressant responses to nicotine on locomotor activity in mice: A. Blondel, M. Shoaib, I. Stolerman, R. Grailhe and J.-P. Changeux (France) 7. Cortical and striatal conditioned neurochemical responses to environmental cues associated with cocaine self-administration in rhesus monkeys: C. W. Bradberry (USA) 8. Adolescent exposure to a low dose of methylphenidate decreases dopamine neuronal activity in adult rats: C. L. Brandon, M. Marinelli and F. J. White (USA) 9. 5-HT1A receptors and cocaine effects: unuconditioned versus conditioned behavioral effects: Robert J. Carey, E. N. Damianopoulos and G. DePalma (USA) 10. Interaction between nicotine and the endogenous cannabinoid system in CB1 knockout mice: A. Castañé, E. Valjent, C. Ledent, M. Parmentier, R. Maldonado and O. Valverde (Spain) 11. Modulation of locomotor responses to D1 and D2 dopamine receptor agonists by viral-mediated over-expression of AMPA receptor subunits in the rat nucleus accumbens: K.-H. Choi, S. Edwards, R. Hoppenot, R. L. Neve and D. W. Self (USA) 12. Behavioral activation effects of intraventricular administration of ethanol and acetaldehyde in rats: implications for the role of central ethanol metabolism in the effects of ethanol: M. Correa, M. N. Arizzi, C. M. G. Aragon, M. Miquel, C. Sanchis-Segura and J. D. Salamone (Spain) 13. Enhanced ethanol consumption by neuronal glucocorticoid receptor knockout mice: M. S. Cowen, K. C. Schroff, F. Tronché and R. Spanagel (Germany and France) 14. Behavioural interactions between cocaine and nicotine: a drug discrimination analysis: R. I. Desai, D. J. Barber and P. Terry (UK) 15. Attenuation of cue-controlled drug-seeking by a selective D3 dopamine receptor antagonist: P. Di Ciano, R. Underwood, J. J. Hagan and B. J. Everitt (UK) 16. Involvement of D1 and D2 dopaminergic receptors in cocaine-seeking behaviour reinstatement: effect of peripheral and intra-accumbens administration: C. Dias and M. Cador (France) 17. Differential dose effects of D9-tetrahydrocannabinol on behaviour and gene expression: A. Egerton, J. A. Pratt and R. Brett (UK) 18. Discriminative stimulus effects of GHB in pigeons: C. P. France (USA) 19. Unconditioned and conditioned effects of opiate withdrawal: analysis of c-fos mRNA expression in the rat brain: F. Frenois, M. Cador, L. Stinus and C. Le Moine (France) 20. Endogenous cannabinoids are critical for newborn food intake and development: involvement of lysophopshatidic acid? E. Fride, E. Rosenberg and R. Mechoulam (Israel) 21. Comparative study of D2/D3-ligands in the place conditioning model in rats: K. Gál and I. Gyertyán (Hungary) 22. Acute and chronic behavioural responses to cannabinoids in mu, delta, or kappa opioid receptor knockout mice: S. Ghozland, D. Filliol, F. Simonin, H. Matthes, B. L. Kieffer and R. Maldonado (France) 23. Preclinical assessment of the reinforcing effects of cannabinoids: S. R. Goldberg (USA) 24. Application of a differential outcome procedure to a MDMA-LSD-saline discrimination in rats: A. K. Goodwin, D. Pynnonen and L. E. Baker (USA) 25. Withdrawal from chronic administration of drugs of abuse increases anxiety-like behaviour in rats: P. Gruca, E. Moryl and M. Papp (Poland) 26. Pharmacokinetic differences of morphine and morphine glucuronides are reflected in locomotor pharmacodynamics: M. Handal, S. Skurtveit, M. Grung, Å. Ripel and J. Mørland (Norway) 27. Influence of repeated deprivations on the occurrence of an alcohol deprivation effect in mice: S. M. Hölter (Germany) 28. Experience of heroin when in withdrawal increases drug seeking through incentive learning mechanisms: D. M. Hutcheson, T. W. Robbins, A. Dickinson and B. J. Everitt (UK ) 29. The effect of blockade of NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGLUR5) in nicotine-dependent rats: P. J. Kenny, C. Wright, F. Gasparini and A. Markou (Switzerland) 30. Controlled evaluation of anesthesia-assisted heroin detoxification: the Columbia study: H. D. Kleber, E. D. Collins and R. A. Whittington (USA) 31. Orphanin FQ/nociceptin, but not Ro 65-6570, inhibits the expression of cocaine induced conditioned place preference: J. Kotlinska, J. Wichmann, A. Legowska, K. Rolka and J. Silberring (Poland) 32. Coadministration of low doses of NMDA receptor antagonist with mGluR II agonist: effects on morphine tolerance: E. Kozela and P. Popik (Poland)
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOSIS AND EMOTION
33. Atypical anti-psychotic profile of the adenosine A2A receptor agonist CGS 21680 in Cebus Apella monkeys: M. B. Andersen, K. Fuxe, T. Werge and J. Gerlach (Sweden) 34. Metabotropic glutamate group II receptor compounds in animal models of psychosis: T. M. Ballard, A.-M. Ouagazzal, T. Woltering, G. Adam, V. Mutel and G. A. Higgins (Switzerland) 35. Effects of the atypical neuroleptic clozapine in the prepulse inhibition paradigm: T. Bast, W.-N. Zhang and J. Feldon (Switzerland) 36. Dopamine is involved in the control of the speed of recovery of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis after termination of exposure to stress: X. Belda, C. Márquez and A. Armario (Spain) 37. Antidepressants block IFN-alpha-induced anhedonia in the rat: I. Bethus, S. Sammut, R. Muscat and G. Goodall (France and Malta) 38. Emotional reactivity in opossums Monodelphis Domestica: J. W. Blaszczyk and K. Turlejski (Poland) 39. Correction of mixed anxious-depressive state in male mice by novel enterosorbent noolit: J. I. Borodin, M. V. Tenditnik, N. N. Kudryavtseva, L. N. Rachkovskaya, A. V. Shurlygina and V. A. Trufakin (Russia) 40. Effects of repeated testing in multiple strains of inbred mice in two mouse models of anxiety: stress-induced hyperthermia and light-dark test: J. A. Bouwknecht and R. Paylor (USA) 41. Anxiolytic-like effects of the mGluR5 antagonist, MPEP, in two assays of conditioned anxiety: C. Busse and J. Brodkin (USA) 42. Social interaction in gerbils: a test for anxiolytic action: S. Cheeta, S. Tucci, C. Akanezi, J. Sandhu and S. E. File (UK) 43. Anxiety and behavior of WAG/Rij rats: N. E. Chepurnova, U. A. Klueva, A. A. Martyanov, S. A. Chepurnov and E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar (Russia and The Netherlands) 44. The role of NMDA receptors in mediating tolerance to benzodiazepine anxiolytics: L. Claase and J. A. Pratt (UK) 45. A study of anxiety in mice by principal component analysis: Y. Clément, C. Kopp, C. Misslin and G. Chapouthier (France) 46. The dorsal raphe nucleus mediates the anxiolytic effects of 5-HT1A receptor agonists and antagonists: S. Coubard and P. Barone (France) 47. Functional heterogeneity of the medial prefrontal cortex in fear-related behaviour: E. Coutureau, S. L. Dix and S. Killcross (UK) 48. Dopamine-b-hydroxylase deficient mice as a tool to assess the role of norepinephrine in the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs.: J. F. Cryan, A. Dalvi, I. Lucki, and S. A. Thomas (USA) 49. The comparison of rabbits' reactions in stress condition, after administration of diazepam (DZ) and the new anxiolytic CM-346: R. Czabak-Garbacz , B. Cygan, M. Chomicki and A. Anasiewicz (Poland) 50. Functional interactions between group II mGlu receptors and D1-like- and D2-like receptors in the rat nucleus accumbens: H. N. David and J. H. Abraini (France) 51. Infusion of the glutamate uptake inhibitor L-trans-PDC in the rat nucleus accumbens increases basal locomotor activity but attenuates the locomotor response to d-amphetamine: H. N. David, A. Thevenoux and J. H. Abraini (France) 52. Stress-induced alterations of cortisol, memory and cerebral metabolites: gender differences in tree shrews: G. de Biurrun, T. Michaelis, T. Watanabe, J. Frahm and E. Fuchs (Germany) 53. The selective noradrenaline (NA) reuptake inhibitor (NARI), reboxetine, elicits a specific discriminative stimulus in rats: A. Dekeyne, A. Gobert, L. Iob and M. J. Millan (France) 54. Discriminative stimulus properties of the selective serotonin (5-HT)2A antagonist, MDL100,907, in rats: A. Dekeyne, L. Iob, P. Hautefaye and M. J. Millan (France) 55. Antidepressive and anxiolytic effects of 8-OH-DPAT and fluoxetine require activation of different 5-HT1A receptor populations: J. De Vry, K. R. Jentzsch, C. Melon and R. Schreiber (Germany) 56. Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell in fear-related behaviours in rats: S. L. Dix, E. Coutureau and S. Killcross (UK) 57. Effects of gender and antidepressant treatment in the chronic mild stress (CMS) model in BALB/c: C. Ducottet, G. Griebel, A. Aubert and C. Belzung (France) 58. Repeated diazepam withdrawal: is the apparent amelioration of withdrawal aversion a form of learned helplessness? S. J. Dunworth and D. N. Stephens (UK) 59. The effects of psychotomimetic agents on response switching in the rat: J. Evenden (USA) 60. Activity profile of E-6006 citrate and its enantiomers in animal models of depression: A. Fisas, X. Codony, X. Guitart, M. Jane and A.J. Farre (Spain) 61. GABA, glutamate and aspartate levels in the brain of mice with different behavioral response to ethanol (microdialysis in vivo): M. Fiserova, M. Krsiak and J. Vavrova (Czech Republic) 62. Coding and central representation of sharp dental pain in man: O. Franzén and M. Ahlquist (Sweden) 63. Effect of EGIS-10227 in tests predictive of positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia: I. Gacsályi, É. Schmidt, K. Pallagi and G. Lévay (Hungary) 64. Effect of dopamine D3 receptor ligands on locomotor activity in mice: I. Gyertyán, K. Sághy and I. Laszlovszky (Hungary) 65. Social stress, anxiety, and the anxiolytic efficacy of buspirone in female rats: J. Haller, J. Baranyi, J. Halász and C. Leveleki (Hungary) 66. Chronic treatment with the antidepressant citalopram attenuates the increases in 24-hour mean core body temperature induced by repeated social defeat of male NMRI mice: A. J. Keeney, S. Hogg and C. A. Marsden (UK) 67. Peptides in stress-sleep relations: V. M. Kovalzon (Russia) 68. Association between experience of aggression and anxiety in male mice: N. N. Kudryavtseva, N. P. Bondar and D. F. Avgustinovich (Russia) 69. Use of Tonic immobility in the guinea pig as a measure of antidepressant or anxiolytic activity: C. Kurre-Olsen and S. Hogg (Denmark)
BEHAVIOURAL SENSITIZATION
70. Effect of acute and repeated d-amphetamine in mice lacking the dopamine transporter: G. Biala, C. Spielewoy, C. Roubert, M. Hamon, C. Betancur and B. Giros (France) 71. Development of conditioned locomotion induced by chronic cocaine in C57BL/6J mice: influence of the time of day: C. Brabant, S. Tambour and E. Tirelli (Belgium) 72. Subchronic caffeine administration sensitizes rats to the motor activating effects of dopamine D1 and D2 agonists: O. Cauli and M. Morelli (Italy) 73. Effects of sensitisation on Pavlovian or Instrumental learning may be secondary to enhanced discrimination: P. K. Hitchcott, E. Setzu, A. Vugler and G. D. Phillips (UK) 74. Metabotropic glutamate receptors and the expression of locomotor sensitization by amphetamine: J.-H. Kim and P. Vezina (USA)
IMPULSIVITY
75. Profiles of impulsive behaviour and D-amphetamine-induced conditioning in adolescent mice: W. Adriani and G. Laviola (Italy) 76. Task-dependent effects of dopaminergic and serotonergic drugs in animal models of impulsivity: A. Blokland, M. M. Nijholt, A. Sik and C. K. J. Lieben (The Netherlands) 77. Possible roles for the infralimbic cortex in impulsivity and reversal learning: Y. Chudasama and T. W. Robbins (UK) 78. Individual differences in impulsivity in youth: long-term effects on cognitive processes: F. Dellu-Hagedorn and H. Simon (France) 79. Investigation of inhibitory control in rats using a stop-signal reaction time task: D. M. Eagle and T. W. Robbins (UK) 80. Gender dissociably affects attentional function and impulsivity in rats: J. D. Jentsch and J. R. Taylor (USA)
MOTIVATION
81. Responses of tonically active neurons in the monkey striatum to appetitive and aversive stimuli: P. Apicella, S. Ravel and E. Legallet (France) 82. Enhanced motivation after bilateral lesions of the subthalamic nucleus in the rat: C. Baunez, T. W. Robbins and M. Amalric (France and UK) 83. Different effects of nicotine and motivational level on performance in the rat five-choice serial reaction time task: L. Bizarro and I. Stolerman (UK) 84. Involvement of the orbital prefrontal cortex in guidance of instrumental behavior of rats by stimuli predicting reward magnitude: I. Bohn, C. Giertler and W. Hauber (Germany) 85. Motivational disturbances following neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions in the rat: an animal model of substance use comorbidity in schizophrenia: R. A. Chambers and D. W. Self (USA) 86. Somatostatin-28 modulates reward processes and prepulse inhibition of startle, without affecting locomotor activity: J. Chevrette, D. Hoyer, V. Lehmann-Masten, M. Geyer and A. Markou (USA and Switzerland) 87. Seeking for food in rats: involvement of dopamine D2/D3 receptors: C. Duarte, M. Hamon and M. H. Thiébot (France) 88. Reward responses of dopamine neurons to probabilistic reinforcement: C. D. Fiorillo and W. Schultz (Switzerland) 89. Involvement of the nucleus accumbens in guidance of instrumental behavior of rats by stimuli predicting reward magnitude: C. Giertler, I. Bohn and W. Hauber (Germany) 90. Blockade of sexually-rewarded conditioned place preference by tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus lesions: T. E. Kippin and D. Van der Kooy (Canada) 91. Influence of reward expectation on visuospatial processing: S. Kobayashi, J. Lauwereyns, M. Koizumi, M. Sakagami and O. Hikosaka (Japan)
DISEASES AND MODELS OF PATHOLOGY
92. Beneficial effects of metabotropic glutamate receptors antagonism in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: N. Breysse, C. Baunez, W. Spooren, F. Gasparini and M. Amalric (France and Switzerland) 93. Corticotropin-releasing factor decreases prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in two rat strains: L. H. Conti and M. P. Printz (USA) 94. Dopaminergic modulation of planning and spatial working memory in Parkinson's disease: the role of prefrontal-striatal circuitry revealed by PET: R. Cools, E. Stefanova, R. A. Barker, T. W. Robbins and A. M. Owen (UK) 95. High frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus decreases circling behaviour induced by apomorphine in hemi-parkinsonian rats: Y. Darbaky, C. Forni, M. Amalric and C. Baunez (France) 96. Spect and cognitive deficits in obstructive sleep apnea: A. Décary, I. Rouleau and J. Montplaisir (Canada) 97. Is high frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus excitatory? Evidence from simulation study: P. F. Dominey, G. Chouvet and M. Savasta (France) 98. The effects of NMDA-receptor antagonist on amphetamine-stimulated dopamine release: M. Dvorkina, I. Afanas'ev, I. Novoselov, A. Sorokin, E. Anderzhanova and K. Rayevsky (Russia) 99. The manual haptic perception of orientation and oblique effect in patients with left visuo-spatial neglect: E. Gentaz and M. Badan (France and Switzerland) 100. Striatum GABA concentration in vivo in diabetic rats submitted to the forced-swimming test: R. Gomez, C. Vargas, M. Wajner and H. M. T. Barros (Brazil) 101. Predator stress abolished and reversed differences in spatial learning of apolipoprotein E knockout and wild type mice: J. Grootendorst, E. R. de Kloet, S. Dalm and M. S. Oitzl (The Netherlands) 102. Kinematic analyses of fast diadochokinetic movements of the "non-impaired" hand after stroke. The dependency of deficits on lesion location and apraxia: J. Hermsdörfer and G. Goldenberg (Germany) 103. Polysomnographic evaluation of sleep deprivation in sleepwalkers and controls: S. Joncas, A. Zadra and J. Montplaisir (Canada) 104. Epileptization failed after chronic GABA-A receptors blocking during pregnancy of WAG/Rij rats: U. A. Klueva, N. E. Chepurnova and E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar (Russia and The Netherlands)
ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION
105. Colour, form, and movement are not perceived simultaneously: C. Aymoz and P. Viviani (Italy) 106. Light exposure of chick embryo as a determinant of monocular sleep: D. Bobbo, F. Galvani, G. G. Mascetti and G. Vallortigara (Italy) 107. Residual effects of hypnotics on antisaccades: M.-L. Bocca and P. Denise (France) 108. Examination of the ability of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to attenuate both pharmacological and/or parametric induced performance deficits in the 5 choice serial reaction time test in the rat: J. L. Bright and R. Dias (UK) 109. Global motion detection learning is severely impaired in cats deprived early of pattern vision: K. Burnat, E. Vandenbussche and B. Zernicki (Belgium) 110. Blockade of NMDA receptor in the medial prefrontal cortex causes attentional dysfunction: reversal by clozapine: M. Carli, M. Baviera, C. Balducci and R. Samanin (Italy) 111. Attentional neglect syndrome following unilateral disruption of prefrontal cortico-striatal system: A. Christakou, T. W. Robbins and B. J. Everitt (UK) 112. Visual and anticipatory modulation in a free-choice task: a comparison of three cortical eye fields: B. Coe, M. Matsuzawa, and O. Hikosaka (Japan) 113. Visual imagery of movement facilitated by colour and motion stimuli: A. Fourkas, L. Hardy and M. Khan (UK) 114. Visual recognition of hands by persons born with only one hand: M. Funk and P. Brugger (Switzerland) 115. Are Backs of Hands Always Faster Recognized Than Palms? M. Funk, F. Wilkening and P. Brugger (Switzerland) 116. Nicotine-induced attentional enhancement in rats: effects of repeated exposures to nicotine: B. Hahn, M. Shoaib and I. P. Stolerman (UK) 117. Colour vision function and individual visual experiences: I. Intskirvel and M. Roinishvili (Georgia)
POSTURE AND MOVEMENT
118. Time uncertainty about movement initiation is reflected in the population activity of monkey motor cortical neurons: A. Bastian, G. Schöner and A. Riehle (France) 119. Population coding of the velocity of two dimensional movements in humans: a microneurographic study: M. Bergenheim and J.-P. Roll (France) 120. Has the motor cortex access to the proximal leg muscles during human gait? a TMS study: M. Bonnard, M. Camus and J. Pailhous (France) 121. Treadmill locomotion changes in rats born and reared after hypergravity: V. Bouët, F. Harlay, L. Borel, Y. Gahéry and M. Lacour (France) 122. Virtual hand-writting induced by well-patterned tendon vibration in humans: J.-C. Gilhodes and J.-P. Roll (France) 123. Estimation of the radius of a passively travelled circle: I. Israël, S. Glasauer, U. Munich, I. Siegler, L. Zupan and D. Merfeld (France and USA) 124. Multisensory integration in human postural control: role of the foot sole and ankle muscle afferents: A. Kavounoudias, R. Roll and J.-P. Roll (France)
AUDITION AND LANGUAGE
125. Event related brain potentials of abstract sequencing give a new insight towards the Neurophysiology of syntactic processing: M. Hoen and P. F. Dominey (France) 126. Speech perception and brain imaging: dichotic listening and PET: K. Hugdahl and I. Law (Norway) 127. Auditory association cortex lesions produce frequency-specific auditory recognition deficit in dogs: D. M. Kowalska, P. Kusmierek, A. Laszcz and J. Sadowska (Poland)
TIME AND SPACE
128. Differential effects of environmental housing upon spatial abilities of male and female rats: C. Brandner, R. Maurer and F. Schenk (Switzerland) 129. Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects on spatial performance in a virtual environment navigation task: V. Chabanne, P. Péruch and C. Thinus-Blanc (France) 130. Partial reinforcement has different effects on acquisition and retention of spatial learning in the Morris navigation task: R. Chalard and F. Schenk (Switzerland) 131. Glutamate-dopamine interactions in the nucleus accumbens: effects of a co-administration of dopaminergic agents and glutamatergic antagonists in the spatial information processing: R. Coccurello, M. Fantini and A. Mele (Italy) 132. Impaired learning in a spatial working memory version and in a cued version of the water maze in rats with MPTP-induced nigral lesions: C. Da Cunha, E. Miyoshi, M. Camplessei, R. Silveira and R. N. Takahashi (Brazil) 133. Early visual deprivation does not affect spatial representation in children: F. Gaunet, M. Ittyerah, G. Ramesh and Y. Rossetti (France and India) 134. Long-term visual removal affects pointing ability: the case of late blindness: F. Gaunet and Y. Rossetti (France) 135. Left-handedness in men and women is associated with different cognitive abilities: A. Grabowska, L. Krzywoszanski and P. Klepacki (Poland) 136. Relative weight of olfactory and spatial cues in a radial maze task by C57/Bl6 mice: N. Grandchamp, M. Spreng and F. Schenk (Switzerland) 137. Scopolamine impairs visual acuity in the water maze in mice: D. Harbaran and G. Riedel (Scotland) 138. The serial reaction time task: involvement of timing processes: A. H. J. Herremans, A. McCreary and T. Tuinstra (The Netherlands) 139. The subcortical anatomy of human spatial awareness: H.-O. Karnath, M. Himmelbach and C. Rorden (Germany)
LEARNING AND MEMORY: GENERAL
140. Role of prefrontal cortical dopamine in the performance of a spatial delayed alternation task: E. Acquas, A. Pisanu, P. Marrocu and G. Di Chiara (Italy) 141. The parabrachial nucleus and taste aversion learning: further evidence supporting an associative role: M. A. Ballesteros, I. Brugada, I. Moron, F. Gonzalez-Reyes, A. Candido and M. Gallo (Spain) 142. The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala and within compound associations: P. J. Blundell, G. K. Bailey, M. Symonds and G. Hall (Australia) 143. Song preference and localized immediate early gene expression in the forebrain of female Zebra finches: J. J. Bolhuis, K. Riebel and A. M. Den Boer-Visser (The Netherlands) 144. Do sperm cells remember? P. Brugger, E. Macas, N. Kälin, J. Ihlemann, S. Puschmann, B. Imthurn and G. Marowsky (Germany) 145. Influence of conditioned stimulus informative value on the contextual conditioned response in classical conditioning in mice: L. Calandreau, A. Desmedt, J. Micheau, A. Marighetto and R. Jaffard (France) 146. Bilateral but not unilateral hippocampal inactivation impairs consolidation processes in the MWM in rats: J. M. Cimadevilla, L. López and J. L. Arias (Spain) 147. Memories for "what" and "where" in the avian brain: C. Cozzutti, A. Gagliardo, P. Pagni and G. Vallortigara (Italy) 148. Implication of the prefrontal cortex in cognitive processing of extinction of learned fear: R. Garcia, C. Herry and R.-M. Vouimba (France) 149. The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in actions and habits: A. S. Killcross and E. C. Coutureau (UK)
LEARNING AND MEMORY: PHARMACOLOGY
150. Involvement of vasopressin on long term memory processes: differential sensitivity of the hippocampus according to the nature of the task: B. Alescio-Lautier, V. Paban, B. Vandesquille and B. Soumireu-Mourat (France) 151. Effects of NMDA receptor stimulation or blockade in the rat dorsal hippocampus on the formation of classical fear conditioning to explicit and contextual cues: T. Bast, W.-N. Zhang and J. Feldon (Switzerland) 152. Effects of the dopamine D4 agonist PD 168,077 and the D4 antagonist L 745,870 on memory consolidation in C57BL/6J mice: P. Bernaerts and E. Tirelli (Belgium) 153. Intraseptal injection of 8-OH-DPAT impairs water-maze and radial-maze reference memory performances in the rat: F. Bertrand, O. Lehmann, R. Galani, C. Lazarus, H. Jeltsch and J.-C. Cassel (France) 154. Time course of acute ethanol effects on recognition working memory in rats: L. Bizarro, L. M. McDonald, V. Patel, S. Landau and J. A. Gray (UK) 155. AT1 angiotensin receptor blockade abolishes improvement of recall and recognition memory but not facilitation of the conditioned avoidance responses caused by the peptide: J. J. Braszko (Poland) 156. Modulation of the disciminative cue of amphetamine by serotonergic compounds: A. Castañeda, M. López-Cabrera and D. N. Velázquez-Martínez (México) 157. A novel task for assessing attention and working memory: dissociable effects of intra-cortical scopolamine: Y. Chudasama, F. Nathwani and T. W. Robbins (UK) 158. Role of the alpha 5 subunit of the GABA-A receptor in learning and memory: N. Collinson, R. Cothliff, T. W. Rosahl, C. Sur, F. Kuenzi, O. Howell, F. M. Otu, G. R. Seabrook, J. R. Atack, R. M. McKernan, G. R. Dawson and P. J. Whiting (UK) 159. Re-evaluation of the effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion on appetitive Pavlovian conditioning: interactive effects of dopamine receptor activation: J. W. Dalley, Y. Chudasama, D. Theobald, C. M. Fletcher, C. Pettifer and T. W. Robbins (UK) 160. Blockade of NMDA receptors within the nucleus accumbens disrupts consolidation in one trial-inhibitory avoidance task: E. De Leonibus, V. J. A. Costantini, C. Castellano, A. Mele and A. Oliverio (Italy) 161. Triple dissociation in the effects of NMDA, AMPA/KA and DA antagonists in the nucleus accumbens core on the acquisition and performance of discriminated approach to a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus: P. Di Ciano, R. Cardinal, R. A. Cowell, S. J. Little and B. J. Everitt (UK) 162. Effects of low-dose domoic acid on conditioned place preference: what does this tell us about the role of AMPA/KA receptors in learning: T. A. Doucette, C. Yuill, R. A. R. Tasker and C. L. Ryan (Canada) 163. Chronic infusion of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) attenuated but did not reverse the aging-related spatial and serotoninergic deficits in rats: F. Eclancher, C. Schleef, E. Scherrer and M. Soffié (France and Belgium) 164. Validation of a murine delayed-non matching to position task: effects of cholinergic blockade and proactive interference: N. Estape and T. Steckler (Belgium) 165. Beta- and alpha-adrenergic systems in the basolateral amygdala are involved in regulating memory storage: B. Ferry, Y. Dieu and J. L. McGaugh (France and USA) 166. Dizocipline differentially impairs acquisition, but not performance of a DRL task in tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA ) -/- mice: J. M. Horwood, T. L. Ripley and D. N. Stephens (UK) 167. Kaliotoxin, a Kv1.1 and Kv1.3 channels blocker, induces a long-lasting synaptic facilitation in CA3 field of hippocampus: S. Kourrich, C. Mourre and B. Soumireu-Mourat (France) 168. Antisense inhibition of the Kir3.1 channel impairs associative learning in rats: S. Kourrich, B. Soumireu-Mourat and C. Mourre (France)
CELLULAR MECHANISMS
169. Flux Coupling in the Human Serotonin Transporter: S. V. Adams and L. J. DeFelice (USA) 170. Effects of inert gas narcosis on the rat dopamine release: N. Balon, B. Kriem and J.-C. Rostain (France) 171. A CaMK2 cascade connects BDNF to transcription factor CREB in hippocampus: P. R. Blanquet and J. Mariani (France) 172. Nootripic drugs efficiently suppress Ca2+-dependent K+-channels: J. Bukanova and E. Solntseva (Russia) 173. Electrophysiological evidence for partial agonist activity of RO 15-1788 (flumazenil) on accutely dissociated rat hippocampal cells: S. Buldakova, D. Tikhonov, N. Balon, J.-C. Rostain and M. Weiss (Russia and France) 174. Genetic disruption of mineralocorticoid receptor leads to impaired neurogenesis and granule cell degeneration in the hippocampus of adult mice: P. Gass, O. Kretz, S. Berger, F. Tronche and G. Schütz (Germany)
Monday, September 10: SESSION 2
DRUGS OF ABUSE
1. Chronic treatment with D9-tetrahydrocannabinol enhances locomotor response to amphetamine and heroin: implications for vulnerability to drug addiction: S. Lamarque and H. Simon (France) 2. A comparison of responses to nicotine and placebo cigarettes by depressed and non-depressed smokers: D. Malpass and P. Terry (UK) 3. A brief period of reduced food availability increases dopamine neuronal activity and enhances motivation to self-administer cocaine: M. Marinelli, D. C. Cooper and F. J. White (USA) 4. Nicotine potentiation of brain stimulation reward reversed by DHbE and SCH 23390, but not by eticlopride, LY 314582 or MPEP in rats: A. Markou, A. A. Harrison and F. Gasparini (USA and Switzerland) 5. Effect of chronic alcohol consumption on hippocampal anatomy and associated behaviors in three inbred strains of mice: Y. S. Mineur, F. Sluyter, C. C. G. Marican, C. Larue-Achagiotis and W. E. Crusio (USA) 6. Additive effects of 5-HT1B/2C agonists with those of an 5-HT1A agonist for the substitution of indorenate in a drug discrimination procedure using a conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm: F. Miranda and D. N. Velázquez-Martínez (México) 7. Long-term behavioural and neurochemical consequences of MDMA ("ecstasy") administration during peri-adolescence in mice: S. Morley-Fletcher, M. Bianchi and G. Laviola (Italy) 8. The selective serotonin 1A receptor antagonist WAY 100635 blocks behavioral but not dopaminergic effects of cocaine: C. P. Müller, M. A. De Souza Silva, J. P. Huston, G. DePalma and R. J. Carey (Germany) 9. Effects of the D3 antagonist PNU-99194A on cocaine- and food-maintained responding by rhesus monkeys: M. A. Nader, S. H. Nader, T. L. Moore and K. Svensson (USA) 10. Addictive and nonaddictive smoking and patterns of transmitter responses to challenge tests: P. Netter, C. Toll and J. Hennig (Germany) 11. Evaluation of the phencyclidine (PCP)-like discriminative stimulus effects of N-substituted benzomorphan isomers in rats: K. L. Nicholson, E. L. May and R. L. Balster (USA) 12. Injections of allopregnanolone enhance ethanol self-administration and induce reinstatement following extinction: H. Nie and P. H. Janak (USA) 13. Olfactory bulbectomy increases methamphetamine I.V. self-administration in rats: J. Novakova, J. Pistovcakova, J. Vinklerova and A. Sulcova (Czech Republic) 14. Impaired or facilitated reward-related learning after pre- or post-training nicotine injections to rats: P. Olausson, J. D. Jentsch and J. R. Taylor (USA) 15. Development of a two-lever "choice" self-administration procedure in monkeys: C. A. Paronis, M. Gasior and J. Bergman (USA) 16. Acute nicotine self-administration and sensitivity predict cessation outcome: K. A. Perkins, M. Broge, D. Gerlach, M. Sanders, J. Grobe, C. Cherry and A. Wilson (USA) 17. Responsiveness to Ethanol in DeltaFosB Transgenic Mice: R. Picetti, F. Toulemonde, E. J. Nestler, A. J. Roberts and G. F. Koob (USA and France) 18. Metabolic mapping studies of the influence of behavioral context: L. J. Porrino, S. L. Hart, H. Green, L. Majersky and K. A. Grant (USA) 19. Effect of repeated withdrawal from ethanol on the subsequent rewarding properties of ethanol: T. L. Ripley and D. N. Stephens (UK) 20. Cocaine self-administration induced tolerance to psychomotor stimulant effects of cocaine: role of Adenosine A2A receptors: B. A. Rocha, A. N. Mead, J.-F. Chen and M. A. Schwarzschild (USA) 21. Catalase inhibition of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus attenuates the locomotor depression observed in rats after ethanol administration: C. Sanchis-Segura, M. Miquel, L. Font and C. M. G. Aragon (Spain) 22. Consequences of arcuate nucleus lesion using goldthioglucose and monosodium glutamate on the locomotion observed after ethanol administration: C. Sanchis-Segura, R. Pastor, M. N. Arizzi and C. M. G. Aragon (Spain and USA) 23. Effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors at cholinergic receptors and in alcohol dependent rats: K. C. Schroff, S. Aschhoff, C. Keiling, S. Siegmund, J. Remien and R. Spanagel (Germany) 24. Does pretreatment with a nicotinic full agonist, partial agonist or nicotinic antagonists attenuate intravenous nicotine self-administration in rats? M. Shoaib, G. M. Olsen, J. Scheel-Kruger and I. P. Stolerman (UK and Denmark) 25. Withdrawal from nicotine elevates extracellular levels of acetylcholine in the rat medial prefrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus: N. Sidhpura, Z. A. Hughes, A. J. Shah, A. R. Atkins, A. J. Hunter, M. Shoaib and C. A. Heidbreder (UK) 26. The effects of repeated deprivation phases and stress episodes on long-term alcohol self-administration in alcohol-preferring rat lines: S. Siegmund, V. Vengeliene, K. Schroff, M. Singer, J. D. Sinclair, T. K. Li and R. Spanagel (Germany and USA) 27. The influence of alcohol pre-experience, sweetened solutions and stress on operant alcohol self-administration behavior of C57BL/6J mice: I. Sillaber, M. Völkl, C. Bartl and R. Spanagel (Germany) 28. Cafeine and alpha2 adenosine receptor agonist CGS21680: a comparative study of acute and repeated administration effects on agonistic behavior in mice: A. Sulcova (Czech Republic) 29. Effects of cannabis on driving: self-reported impairments but limited performance decrements: P. Terry and K. A. Wright (UK) 30. Effect of raclopride on rat models on nicotine-taking and nicotine-seeking behaviours: M. Tessari, L. Calderan, E. Valerio, M. Andreoli and C. Chiamulera (Italy) 31. Alcohol in low doses increases attentional orienting response to alcohol related cues: J. M. Townshend and T. Duka (UK) 32. High dose methadone treatment fails to block the euphoric effects of intravenous heroin in opioid-dependent humans: S. L. Wash, E. C. Donny, G. E. Bigelow and M. L. Stitzer (USA) 33. Additive effects of stress and drug-related stimuli on alcohol-seeking behavior in an animal model of relapse: dependence on CRF and opioid mechanisms: F. Weiss and X. Liu (USA)
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOSIS AND EMOTION
34. Influence of partial social deprivation on the rats' self-regulation in conditions of psychogenic stress: I. Labadze, M. Ghogoberidze and M. Khananashvili (Georgia) 35. Anxiety as a predictor of high alcohol preference in rats? B. Langen and H. Fink (Germany) 36. Genetic determination of swim stress-induced analgesia in mice: I. Lapo, J. Blaszczyk and B. Sadowski (Poland) 37. Substantial tryptophan depletion does not affect anxiety- or depression-related behavior, but impairs object memory in the rat: C. K. J. Lieben, K. I. M. van Oorsouw, N. E. P. Deutz and A. Blokland (The Netherlands) 38. Differences in self-administration of long- and short-acting psychostimulants under a progressive-ratio schedule: J. Lile, H. Davies and M. Nader (USA) 39. Effects of propanolol in the discriminative cue of amphetamine: M. López-Cabrera, O. Zamora, A. Castañeda and E. Pinzon-Estrada (México) 40. Individual differences in rats: relationship between the behavioural response to novel environments and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: C. Márquez, R. Nadal, A. Vallés, X. Belda and A. Armario (Spain) 41. Rate-dependent effect of Prozac on captivity induced stereotypies in bank voles: L. Meers and F.O. Ödberg (Belgium) 42. Anxiogenic-like effect after multiple ifenprodil treatment in chronically ethanol treated rats: P. Mikolajczak, I. Okulicz-Kozaryn, E. Kaminska, W. Dyr and W. Kostowski (Poland) 43. Modulation of ultrasonic vocalizations by clonazepam and Ro 19-8022 in infant rats: A. Mikulecka, H. Kubova and P. Mares (Czech Republic) 44. Modulation of defensive reactions by metabotropic glutamate receptors in the dorsal periaqueductal gray: M. L. Molchanov and F. S. Guimarães (Brazil) 45. Anxiety, posture and motor skill in several strains of mice: J. Negroni, E. Lepicard, P. Venault, A. Berthoz, R. Jouvent and G. Chapouthier (France) 46. Aggressive behavior induced by the steroid sulfatase inhibitor COUMATE and by DHEAS in CBA/H mice: L. Nicolas, W. Pinoteau, S. Papot, S. Routier, G. Guillaumet and S. Mortaud (France) 47. Effects of innate anxiety on non-emotional cognitive performance in rodents: F. Ohl, C. Storch, A. Roedel and F. Holsboer (Germany) 48. Antidepressant-like properties of the aspartic acid derivatives in the stress-induced animal depression model: N. V. Onishchenko, V. S. Sergeyev, V. I. Petrov, M. A. Dumpis and L. B. Piotrovsky (Russia) 49. Serotonin 1A receptor knockout mice are paradigm-dependent more anxious: T. Pattij and B. Olivier (The Netherlands) 50. The role of angiotensin II and adenosine A1 and A2A receptors in the modulation of acetic acid - induced abdominal constriction in mice: D. Pechlivanova and V. Georgiev (Bulgaria) 51. Effects of dopamine receptor stimulation or blockade in the medial prefrontal cortex on locomotor activity, sensorimotor gating, and conditioned fear: M. Pezze, T. Bast and J. Feldon (Switzerland) 52. Physical and emotional stress specifically induce differential effects on locomotor activity and sensitivity to reward in rats: F. T. A. Pijlman and J. M. van Ree (The Netherlands) 53. Male and female C57BL/6 mice respond differently to diazepam challenge in avoidance paradigms: J. Podhorna, S. McCabe and R. E. Brown (Canada) 54. The antipsychotic potential of the 5-HT6 receptor antagonist SB-271046 in rats: B. Pouzet, M. Didriksen and J. Arnt (Denmark) 55. Alpha5-GABAa subunit implication in benzodiazepine-induced responses in mice: L. Prut, Y. S. Mineur, Y. Clement, A. M. Le Guisquet, C. Andres, G. Chapouthier and C. Belzung (France) 56. Behavioural characterisation of the Brazilian inbred rat strains Lewis and SHR: a genetic model of anxiety and pain: A. Ramos, A. Luiz Kangerski and P. Faggion Basso (Brazil) 57. The mammalian CRF-1 receptor antagonist PD171729 does not inhibit behavioural and physiological fear reactions in Japanese quail: S. Richard, D. C. Davies, D. Guemene and J. M. Faure (France and UK) 58. 'Parental' anxiety in the plus-maze: implications for KO research: R. J. Rodgers, E. R. Boullier and A. L. Shorten (UK) 59. The effect of Hypericum perforatum on dopamine function: S. Saiyudthong, C. Thompson, S. Beckett, G. W. Bennett and C. A. Marsden (UK) 60. Stress-induced depression: antidepressant potential of substance P: K. Sarkisova (Russia) 61. The WAG/Rij line rats: a new genetically-based animal model of depression: K. Sarkisova and I. Midzianovskaia (Russia) 62. Effects of alpha4/beta2- and alpha7 – nicotine acetylcholine receptor agonists on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in rats and mice: R. Schreiber, M. Dalmus and J. De Vry (Germany) 63. Neuroleptics differentially reverse effects of phencyclidine and DOI in drug discrimination and prepulse inhibition models in the rat: R. Schreiber and J. De Vry (Germany) 64. Effects of sub-chronic treatment with diazepam on social behaviour related to the possession of food in groups of rats subjected to the diving-for-food situation: H. Schroeder, C. Terrasse and D. Desor (France) 65. Contrasting effects of haloperidol, clozapine and olanzapine on c-Fos expression in forebrain enkephalinergic neurons of the rat: A. Seillier, K. Herbeaux, G. Di Scala, B. Will, L. Stoeckel and M. Majchrzak (France) 66. Clozapine treatment prevented the somatic signs and partially reversed the affective aspects of nicotine withdrawal in rats: S. Semenova and A. Markou (USA) 67. The influence of nicotinic and muscarinic receptor ligands on rat behaviour in the animal models of contextual anxiety: H. Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, P. Maciejak, A. Czonkowska, M. Siemitkowski, J. Szyndler and A. Paznik (Poland) 68. Acute administration of high phencyclidine doses induced anhedonia in rats reflected in elevated brain reward thresholds: reversal by the antipsychotic clozapine: C. Spielewoy and A. Markou (USA) 69. Changes in stress-induced freezing behaviour and conditioned ultrasonic vocalization in rats in a model of pentylenetetrazol-induced kindling: J. Szyndler, P. Maciejak, H. Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, M. Siemitkowski, A. Czonkowska and A. Paznik (Poland) 70. Reversal of selective attention deficit in social recognition in rats: a new model predictive of antipsychotic: J.-P. Terranova, G. H. Perrault and P. Soubrié (France) 71. Atypical antipsychotic profile of SSR181507, mixed DA D2/D3 antagonist and 5-HT1A agonist. R. Depoortere, D. Boulay, D. De Peretti, Y. Claustre, B. Marabout, M. Sevrin, P. George, Gh. Perrault, H. Schoemaker, P. Soubrie and B. Scatton (France) 72. 5-HT1A agonist properties underlie the anxiolytic-and antidepressant-like activities of SSR181507. M. Jung, R. Depoortere, D. Francon, M. Decobert, P. Avenet, J. Simiand, Gh. Perrault, B. Scatton and P. Soubrie (France) 73. Further evidence that the cues produced by chlordiazepoxide and zolpidem are associated with anxiolytic and sedative effects and distinct GABAA receptor subtypes. G.H. Perrault, C. Cohen, G. Griebel, D.J. Sanger and P. Soubrié (France) 74. Anxiolytic effects of neurokinin NK1 receptor antagonists in a novel gerbil elevated plus-maze: G. B. Varty, M. Cohen-Williams, C. A. Morgan, G. J. Carey and V. L. Coffin (USA) 75. CRF-induced excessive grooming behaviour in rats: effects of etifoxine, a selective anxiolytic: M. Verleye, Y. Akwa and J. M. Gillardin (France) 76. Changes of mouse agonistic behaviour induced by cannabinoid receptor agonist HU 210 and antagonist AM 251: J. Vinklerova and A. Sulcova (Czech Republic) 77. Differential effects of serotonergic and noradrenergic antidepressants on auditory startle response in patients with major depression: M. Wagner, B. B. Quednow, K. Kuehn, K. Hoenig and W. Maier (Germany)
BEHAVIOURAL SENSITIZATION
78. Role of the dopamine D3 receptor in the behavioral sensitization process and in reactivity to cocaine-cues: B. Le Foll, J. Diaz, J.-C. Schwartz and P. Sokoloff (France) 79. Enhanced sensitivity to the rate-decreasing effects of the CB1 receptor antagonist SR141716A in rhesus monkeys chronically treated with D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC): L. R. McMahon and C. P. France (USA) 80. Inhibition of brain catalase prevents ethanol-induced locomotor sensitization in mice: M. Miquel, L. Font, M. Correa and C. M. G. Aragon (Spain) 81. The lesion of arcuate nucleus by monosodium glutamate blocks ethanol-induced locomotor sensitization in mice: M. Miquel, L. Font, C. Sanchis-Segura and C. M. G. Aragon (Spain) 82. Dose-dependent caffeine-induced conditioned locomotion in mice: A. Pirona, A. O. Ferrara and E. Tirelli (Belgium) 83. Withdrawal from intermittent and escalating dosage schedules of amphetamine produces sensitization, but is not associated with depressive symptoms in rats: H. Russig, C. A. Murphy, M. A. Pezze, N. I. Bahr and J. Feldon (Switzerland) 84. Attenuation of interferon-alpha-induced reduction of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core following behavioural sensitisation to amphetamine: S. Sammut, G. Goodall and R. Muscat (Malta and France) 85. Systemic pretreatment with 5-HT3 receptor ligands produces moderate effects on the development of cocaine motor sensitization in rats: K. K. Szumlinski, K. A. Frys and P. W. Kalivas (USA) 86. Conditioned cocaine-induced locomotion in C57BL/6J mice: dependence on the number of drug-context pairings: S. Tambour, A. Michel and E. Tirelli (Belgium) 87. Evidence against an associative account of contextual sensitization to apomorphine-induced climbing: E. Tirelli, C. Heidbreder and P. Terry (UK ) 88. Role of alpha-adrenoceptors in psychomotor activity and long-term behavioral sensitization evoked by amphetamine and cocaine: L. J. M. J. Vanderschuren, T. J. De Vries, P. Beemster, G. Wardeh and A. N. M. Schoffelmeer (The Netherlands) 89. Prevention and treatment of opioid sensitization by alprazolam in mice: M. Votava, M. Krsiak and V. Moravec (Czech Republic)
MOTIVATION
90. Second-order schedules of sucrose reinforcement and the influence of dopamine D3 receptors on sucrose-seeking behaviour: M. Pilla, D. M. Hutcheson, P. Adib-Samil, E. Potton and B. J. Everitt (UK) 91. The effects of dopaminergic agonists and antagonists on schedule-induced polydipsia: A. Ruíz, C. Rodríguez, P. Flores and R. Pellón (Spain) 92. Motivation and modulation of alcohol drinking by GABAergic pre-treatment in rats: U. Schmitt, S. Waldhofer, T. Weigelt and C. Hiemke (Germany) 93. Ibotenic lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus effect performance in an operant conditioning task: B. Steiniger and B. D. Kretschmer (Germany) 94. Behavioral analysis of the saccharin deprivation effect in rats: I. A. Sukhotina, O. N. Neznanova and A. Y. Bespalov (Russia) 95. Responses of midbrain dopamine neurons to a conditioned inhibitor: P. N. Tobler, A. Dickinson and W. Schultz (UK and Switzerland) 96. Effects of pleasant and unpleasant gustatory and olfactory stimuli in anorexia nervosa as revealed by the spectral and dimensional EEG: E. Tóth, Á. Gáti, F. Túry and M. Molnár (Hungary)
DISEASES AND MODELS OF PATHOLOGY
97. The real animal model of Parkinson's disease? Insights from behavioural and neurochemical observations: A. Leng, A. Mura, N. Bahr, B. Hengerer, J. Feldon and B. Ferger (Switzerland) 98. The Berlin apraxia test - construction of a test for ideomotor and ideational apraxia: I. Liepelt, J. Rossmüller, V. Florian and T. Platz (Germany) 99. Cognitive deficits in 6-OHDA lesioned rats are improved by a chronic treatment with the dopamine agonist piribedil: B. Maurin, C. Baunez, C. Bonhomme, C. Chezaubernard, A. Nieoullon and M. Amalric (France) 100. Behavioral and immunocytochemical effects following basal forebrain cholinergic lesion: V. Paban, B. Vandesquille, B. Soumireu-Mourat and B. Alescio-Lautier (France) 101. Investigation of peptides-stimulators of cell differentiation on experimental evoked parkinsonian syndrom in mice: A. T. Proshin, Z. I. Storozheva, I. A. Kostanyan and J. Tombran-Tink (Russia) 102. The mGluR5 antagonist MPEP and the antiglutamate Na+ channel modulator riluzole protect against prefrontal cortex ibotenate lesions in the rat: C. Risterucci, J.-M. Stutzmann and M. Amalric (France) 103. Engineered GABA-releasing cells transplanted into SNr suppress cholinomimetic-induced oral tremor in an animal model of parkinsonism: J. D. Salamone, B. B. Carlson, S. Behrstock and A. Tobin (USA) 104. MDMA potently counteracts parkinsonian symptoms in the rat: W. J. Schmidt, A. Mayerhofer, A. Meyer and K. A. Kovar (Germany) 105. Neurobehavioural study of long-term peroral administration of dehydroandrosterone and 7-oxo-derivative in aging rats: H. Tejkalová, O. Benešová, Z. Krištofiková, R. Hampl, M. Bicíková, A. Kasal, A. Brejcha and J. Klaschka (Czech Republic) 106. Brain Creatine Kinase deficient mice show impaired spatial learning, less habituation and nestbuilding, but increased aggressive behavior: C. E. E. M. Van der Zee, F. Streijger, C. Jost, F. Oerlemans, F. Sluyter, B. Wieringa, M. Verheij and A. Cools (The Netherlands) 107. Asymmetric influences of hand pointing on saccade latency in Hemi-Parkinson's disease: J. Ventre-Dominey, P. Dominey and E. Broussolle (France) 108. Hemispace-specific impairment for remote spatial memory: I. Viaud-Delmon, S. Ortigue and T. Landis (Switzerland) 109. Language abilities in children with focal epilepsy: M. Vukovic and J. Vuksanovic (Yugoslavia) 110. Memory abilities in children with focal epilepsy: J. Vuksanovic and M. Vukovic (Yugoslavia)
ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION
111. Noradrenergic modulation of tactile responses in the sensorimotor cortex of the anesthetized rat: unit activity and current source-density analysis: J.-C. Lecas (France) 112. Reference frames and the visual perception of orientations: body tilt effect on the "oblique effect": M. Luyat, E. Gentaz and S. Mobarek (France) 113. Noise-disrupted latent inhibition is restored by a 5-HT2A receptor antagonist: L. M. McDonald, P. M. Moran, G. N. Vythelingum, M. H. Joseph, J. D. Stephenson and J.A. Gray (UK) 114. Adaptation to trigeminal nasal chemoreceptors: J.-L. Millot (France) 115. Ipsilesional hyperattention in neglect patients' saccadic eye movements: E. Natale, E. Bricolo, L. Johannsen, C. A. Marzi and H.-O. Karnath (Germany and Italy) 116. Do chicks complete partly occluded objects only with their right hemisphere? L. Regolin, F. Marconato, L. Tommasi and G. Vallortigara (Italy) 117. Effects of proprioceptive and caloric stimulation on tactile exploration in unilateral neglect: I. Schindler, S. Clavagnier, Y. Paulignan, L. Derex and M.-T. Perenin (France) 118. Failure to remap visuotactile space across the midline in the split-brain: C. Spence, A. Kingstone, S. Soto-Faraco, D. I. Shore and M. S. Gazzaniga (UK) 119. Intermodal transfer (touch-to-vision) in neonates: A. Streri, E. Gentaz, C. Lemoine and B. Profit (France) 120. Complementary left-right specialisation for the lateral and frontal visual hemifield in the domestic chick: G. Vallortigara, C. Cozzutti, L. Tommasi and L. J. Rogers (Italy and Australia) 121. Computational and psychophysical aspects of motion segmentation and transparency: J. M. Zanker (UK)
POSTURE AND MOVEMENT
122. Modification of axial turning preferences by handedness: C. Mohr, H. S. Bracha and P. Brugger (Switzerland) 123. Effects of transient peripheral deafferentation or botulinum toxin on intracortical inhibition in humans: A. Palmeri, D. A. Restivo, P. Bramanti, P. Di Bella and S. Sapienza (Italy) 124. Bilateral occipito-temporal parcellation of gesture-specific processes: P. Peigneux, E. Salmon, S. Laureys, A. Luxen and M. Van der Linden (Belgium) 125. Ponto-cerebellar pathway and its involvement in motor skills and memory in the rat: A. Pompili, A. Gasbarri, C. Pacitti and F. Cicirata (Italy) 126. Cutaneous afferent message from human plantar sole evoke whole-body postural illusions: R. Roll, A. Kavounoudias and J.-P. Roll (France) 127. Illusory hand movements activate sensory and motor cortical areas, as shown by fMRI: P. Romaiguère, J.-L. Anton, L. Casini, M. Roth and J.-P. Roll (France) 128. Transcranial magnetic stimulation alters illusory hand movements and related motor responses: P. Romaiguère, S. Calvin and J.-P. Roll (France) 129. The foreperiod effect upon stages of sensorimotor information processing: an ERP study: C. Tandonnet, M. Bonnet, F. Vidal and T. Hasbroucq (France)
AUDITION AND LANGUAGE
130. Neural basis of letter writing: an fMRI study: M. Longcamp, J.-L.Velay, J.-L.Anton and M. Roth (France) 131. Event related brain potentials identify auditory processing mechanisms impaired in dyslexia: A. Shankardass, R. I. Nicolson and A. J. Fawcett (UK) 132. Auditory perception of temporal-spatial order before and after training: evidence from psychophysics, ERPs and fMRI: T. Wüstenberg, J. Rüsseler, T. Zähle, G. Fesl, C. Wolf, M. Palitzsch, L. Jäncke and N. von Steinbüchel (Germany) 133. Disturbed lateralization of dichotic sound in patients with neglect: U. Zimmer, J. Lewald and H. O. Karnath (Germany)
TIME AND SPACE
134. Combined treatment with (-)-9-dehydrogalanthaminium bromide, a new cholinesterase inhibitor, and RS 67333, a 5-HT4 receptors agonist, enhances place and object recognition in young and old rats: L. Lamirault and H. Simon (France) 135. Place cell activity is correlated with place navigation but not with visually guided behaviour: P. P. Lenck-Santini, E. Save, R. U. Muller and B. Poucet (France and USA) 136. Acute and chronic amphetamine treatments differentially alter spatial and non-spatial learning in mice: S. Mandillo, A. Oliverio and A. Mele (Italy) 137. Entorhinal cortex lesions in rats impair the use of distal landmarks but not of proximal landmarks during navigation: C. Parron, B. Poucet and E. Save (France) 138. Birds in a giant radial maze: spatial learning in crows, guinea fowls and quails: M. G. Pleskacheva, G. Dell'Omo, A. A. Smirnova, N. N. Garin and H.-P. Lipp (Russia and Switzerland) 139. Maturation of the memory trace of successively acquired positions in the Morris navigation task by C57/bl6 mice: F. Rochat, M. Spreng and F. Schenk (Switzerland) 140. Reliance on olfactory cues for spatial orientation in the light is also inhibited in juvenile rats: J. Rossier and F. Schenk (Switzerland) 141. Fish use of geometric and non-geometric properties of an environment for spatial reorientation: V. A. Sovrano, A. Bisazza and G. Vallortigara (Italy) 142. Role of the hippocampal CA3-region on short- and long-term information processing in spatial open-field, object recognition and Morris water maze tasks, in mice: G. Stupien, C. Florian and P. Roullet (France) 143. Spatial learning deficits induced by chronic stress are related to individual differences in the reactivity to novelty: K. Touyarot, C. Venero, N. D. Kruyt and C. Sandi (Spain) 144. The orbitofrontal cortex contribution to place avoidance memory in distinct spatial reference frames: A. A. Vafaei, A. Rashidy-Pour, J. Bures and A. A. Fenton (Iran) 145. Seasonal changes of hippocampal volume, spatial behaviour and gonadal hormone level in rodents from natural populations: V. A. Yaskin (Russia)
LEARNING AND MEMORY: GENERAL
146. Object recognition from canonical views: implications from case studies of object recognition impairment: J. Davidoff (UK) 147. Blockade of the alpha-7 nicotinic receptor subunit switches the motivational valence of nicotine from rewarding to aversive in the ventral tegmental area: S. R. Laviolette and D. van der Kooy (Canada) 148. Contrasting effects of ageing in a working-memory task in mice: A. Marighetto, N. Etchamendy, H. Thany, C. Cortes-Torrea and R. Jaffard (France) 149. The use of a 4-key drug discrimination procedure to study the discriminative stimulus effects of drug mixtures in pigeons: D. E. McMillan, M. Li and W. C. Hardwick (USA) 150. Effects of portal hypertension on rat's performance in an active-avoidance task: R. Miranda, L. López, A. Begega, J. L. Arias, H. González-Pardo, N. M. Conejo, J. Cimadevilla, J. Arias and M. A. Aller (Spain) 151. Effects of stem cells grafts on elevated T-maze and open field performance in rats after AMPA-induced lesions of the basal forebrain: A. Oliveira and H. Hodges (UK) 152. Intracranial self-stimulation and recovery after lesion of the parafascicular nucleus in old rats: D. Redolar-Ripoll, P. Segura-Torres, C. Soriano-Mas, L. Aldavert-Vera, G. Guillazo-Blanch and I. Morgado-Bernal (Spain) 153. The strain-dependent involvement of nucleus accumbens in latent inhibition reveals strain differences in processing configural- and cue-base information between C57Bl/6 and DBA/2 mice: L. Restivo, E. Passino, S. Middei and M. Ammassari-Teule (Italy) 154. Relations between anxiety, Morris water maze learning abilities and corpus callosum deficiency in BALB/c mice: V. Roy and P. Chapillon (France) 155. Effects of bilateral lesions to the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus on matching- and non-matching-to-position, learning and on emotional reactivity: N. Satorra-Marín, S. Homs-Ormo, M. Coll-Andreu, R. Arévalo-García and I. Morgado-Bernal (Spain) 156. Reactivation, retrieval, reconsolidation: is it task dependent? T. Schindler, J. Przybyslawski and S. J. Sara (France) 157. Synaptic and biosynthetic processes at cerebellum and hippocampus in adult animals during learning and amnesia caused by antibodies to neurotrophic factors: V. Sherstnev, M. Gruden, Z. Storogeva, V. Urasov and A. Proshin (Russia) 158. Parafascicular electrical stimulation reverses nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesion-induced memory impairment: H. Sos-Hinojosa, G. Guillazo-Blanch, A. Vale-Martínez, M. Martí-Nicolovius, R. Nadal-Alemany and I. Morgado-Bernal (Spain) 159. Step-down avoidance as a valid test for investigating the role of cell adhesion molecules in memory formation in mice: study of the amnestic effect of an antibody to the HNK-1 glycoepitope: T. Strekalova, C. T. Wotjak, P. Gass and M. Schachner (Germany) 160. Song learning-related immediate early gene expression in the forebrain of Zebra Finch females: N. J. Terpstra, J. J. Bolhuis, J. M. M. Van der Burg and A. M. Den Boer-Visser (The Netherlands) 161. Increases of shuttle box performance after medial septum lesions: M. Torras-Garcia, I. Portell-Cortés, D. Costa-Miserachs and I. Morgado-Bernal (Spain) 162. Effects of reversible inactivation of the bilateral orbitofrontal cortex on acquisition and consolidation in memory storage in rat: A. A. Vafaei, A. Rashidy-Pour, M. R. Sharifi and J. Bures (Iran) 163. Poor learner rats in the morris water maze display increased brain expression of the cell adhesion molecule L1: C. Venero, M. I. Cordero and C. Sandi (Spain) 164. Reorganization of the somatotopic map of the primary somatosensory cortex after a skin pedicle flap rotation: effects of nursing-related stimulation: C. Xerri and Y. Zennou-Azogui (France) 165. Late-phase long-term potentiation in the amygdala, induced by entorhinal cortex stimulation in vivo: D. Yaniv, R.-M. Vouimba, D. Diamond and G. Richter-Levin (Israel)
LEARNING AND MEMORY: PHARMACOLOGY
166. 5-HT1A receptor-mediated control of hippocampal cholinergic tone in the aged rat: relation to the magnitude of age-related cognitive deficits: A. Lazaris, F. Bertrand, R. Galani, C. Lazarus, C. Kelche and J.-C. Cassel (France) 167. Spatial memory and cholinergic/serotonergic interactions in the rat hippocampal formation: O. Lehmann, H. Jeltsch, F. Bertrand, C. Lazarus, R. Galani and J.-C. Cassel (France) 168. Association between GABA and taurine release contingent upon learning: B. J. McCabe, G. Horn and K. M. Kendrick (UK) 169. Point mutation in the glucocorticoid receptor prevents DNA-binding and impairs spatial learning of the mutant mice: M. S. Oitzl, H. Reichardt, S. Dalm, M. Joëls, G. Schütz and E. R. de Kloet (Germany and The Netherlands) 170. ATP-sensitive potassium channels mediate the effects of a peripheral injection of glucose on memory storage in an inhibitory avoidance task: Rashidy-Pour (Iran) 171. Differential effects of CB1 receptor agonists HU210 and WIN 55212-2 on working memory in rats: L. Robinson, R. G. Pertwee and G. Riedel (Scotland) 172. Scopolamine-induced learning and memory deficits in the water maze are reversed by rivastigmine in rats: E. Roloff, L. Robinson, B. Platt and G. Riedel (Scotland) 173. Infusion of a GABAergic agonist into the rat medial prefrontal cortex disrupts performance of a visuospatial discrimination task: R. F. Salazar, G. Hedou, C. Bonifay, J. Feldon and I. M. White (Switzerland) 174. Effect of NMDA receptors blockade in the nucleus accumbens on short- and long-term information processing in object recognition and Morris water maze tasks, in mice: F. Sargolini, A. Mele, A. Oliverio and P. Roullet (Italy and France) 175. Different effects of mGluR1 and mGluR5 agonists and antagonists on spatial learning in rats: W. Wetzel and D. Balschun (Germany) 176. Perinatal Phencyclidine Delays Acquisition of a Spatial Alternation Task in Female Rats: J. L. Wiley, K. G. Bühler, K. L. LaVecchia and K. M. Johnson (USA) 177. Intra-hippocampal scopolamine infusion prevents entorhinal cortex lesion-induced facilitation of olfactory recognition in rats: S. Wirth, B. Will and G. Di Scala (France)
CELLULAR MECHANISMS
178. Features of opioid peptides effects on different sensory inputs in command neurons of defence behavior Lpl1 and Rpl1 in land snail Helix lucorum: V. P. Nikitin, S. A. Kozyrev and A. V. Shevelkin (Russia) 179. Hippocampus-nucleus accumbens network properties: in vivo recordings: P. O'Donnell and Y. Goto (USA) 180. A central-peripheral interaction in the neurochemical and behavioural effects of IFN-alpha: S. Sammut, I. Bethus, R. Muscat, and G. Goodall (France and Malta) 181. Induction of whisker pairing plasticity under urethane anesthesia: H. Sellien and F. F. Ebner (USA) 182. Effects of volatile solvents and anesthetics in GABAa/delta subunit null mutant mice: K. L. Shelton, R. LeHew, G. E. Homanics and R. L. Balster (USA) 183. Caffeine releases dopamine and glutamate in the shell of nucleus accumbens: M. Solinas, S. Ferré, Z. B. You, R. A. Wise and S. R. Goldberg (USA) 184. Influence of social position and responsiveness to novelty on brain c-fos expression in rats: W. Trojniar, D. Lewandowska, D. Siemion and J. Tokarski (Poland) 185. The mineralocorticoid receptor expression in the mouse CNS is conserved during development: D. Zacher and P. Gass (Germany) |
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