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Long latency event related potentials in rats - the effects of changes in stimulus parameters and neurochemical lesions

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authors

  • Ehlers, Cindy
  • Chaplin, R. I.

publication date

  • 1992

journal

  • Journal of Neural Transmission-General Section  Journal

abstract

  • Animal models of event related potentials (ERPs) have recently been developed in order to gain further understanding of the psychobiological variables which may underlie these brain potentials. In the present study, unanaesthetized rats were utilized in order to evaluate the effects on rat ERP morphology of changes in the auditory stimulus parameters used to elicit these potentials such as tone probability and intensity. In addition, the consequences of reductions in norepinephrine (NE) produced by six-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions to the area of the dorsal noradrenergic bundle in ERP wave forms were evaluated. Forty, experimentally naive, male rats chronically implanted with electrodes were used in this study. The results of these studies showed that in all electrode sites (frontal cortex, ventral thalamus, dorsal hippocampus, locus coeruleus) a series of large amplitude potentials in the 10-200 msec latency range could be recorded, some of which were sensitive to changes in the auditory stimulus parameters such as probability and tone intensity. Late positive potentials in the 300-400 msec range could be identified in recordings from the dorsal hippocampus and were found to be sensitive to probability independent of tone intensity. Dorsal noradrenergic bundle lesions were also found to produce significant changes in these rat ERP components. Lesioned animals were found to have increases in amplitude to the early negative potentials (in the 50-100 msec range) in response to frequent tones in cortical leads and decreases in the amplitude of the late positive potentials (in the 300-400 msec range) recorded in hippocampal leads in response to infrequent tones. These findings are consistent with a role for NE in the forebrain in the processing of novel or "selective" stimuli.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Brain
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Evoked Potentials
  • Hippocampus
  • Locus Coeruleus
  • Male
  • Oxidopamine
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Reaction Time
  • Thalamus
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keywords

  • CORTEX
  • EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS
  • HIPPOCAMPUS
  • NOREPINEPHRINE
  • P300
  • SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0300-9564

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/bf01245037

PubMed ID

  • 1575954
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 61

end page

  • 75

volume

  • 88

issue

  • 1

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