Partitioning of behavioral arousal

Miezejeski, Charles; Lamon, Stacy; Collier, George; Hamilton, Leonard W.

doi:10.1016/0031-9384(76)90155-4

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“…On the other hand , a number of studies with rats have found that shuttle cage activity does not increase appreciably following food deprivation (cf. Baumeister et al, 1964;Cornish & Mrosovsky, 1965;Miezejeski et al, 1976;Strong, 1957 ;Treichler & Hall, 1962). The discrepancy of the present findings with the previous studies may be due in part to a species or a procedural difference.…”

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Comparison of behavioral activity in two apparatus for food-deprived mice

Murphy

Nagy

1979

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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Behavioral arousal induced by food deprivation is well documented for rats tested in activity wheels, but activity levels may vary considerably for other species and when testing is done in other types of apparatus. The present study compared behavioral activity of ad•lib and food-deprived mice, as few studies have examined the effects of food deprivation in this species. Separate groups were tested continuously in activity wheels or 2 h daily in shuttle cages. Deprivation increased behavioral activity in both apparatus. The daily 2-h shuttle cage test proved to be a reliable and economical measure of deprivation-induced behavioral arousal in mice. Food deprivation in the laboratory rat is often reported to produce marked and reliable increases in behavioral activity (Campbell, 1964; Campbell & Misanin, 1969). However, there are considerable interspecies differences in deprivation-induced behavioral arousal and, although the mouse is a popular subject for behavioral and pharmacological research, relatively few studies have examined the effects of chronic food deprivation in this species (cf. Baumeister, Hawkins,

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Comparison of behavioral activity in two apparatus for food-deprived mice

Murphy

Nagy

1979

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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“…Enhanced activity as a result of food deprivation has been an extensively studied and often observed state of locomo tor arousal, but there has been a great deal of controversy concerning the generality of the response and the underlying mechanisms which mediate the behavior (cf. Baumeister et al, 1964;Campbell, 1964;Campbell & Misanin, 1969;Miezejeski, Lamon, Collier , & Hamilton, 1976;Reed, 1947). The heightened activity associated with deprivation in the present experimen t supports the popularly held contention that depri vation, in some way, activates sys-to the width of the cage.…”

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FLA-63 blocks food-deprivation-induced behavioral arousal in the mouse

Murphy

Nagy

1979

Psychobiology

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Food-deprivation-induced locomotor arousal was investigated in mice using a daily 2-h shuttle cage test. In Experiment I, deprived mice demonstrated enhanced locomotor activity compared to ad-lib controls. The pattern of the activity over 15-min intervals showed that the locomotor arousal was partly due to an attenuation of the normal within-session activity decrease characteristic of controls. This finding suggests some inhibition of habituation processes as a result of food deprivation. The second experiment indicated an important role for norepinephrine systems in the mediation of the starvation-induced arousal, as pretreatment with the dopamine-(J-hydroxylase inhibitor FLA•63 blocked locomotor arousal in food-deprived mice.

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“…Although chicks with exclusive access to the purified-casein diet in the preceding experiments appeared to be exceptionally lethargic and inactive, activity in a running wheel is independent of and functionally distinct from other measures of general activity such as cage crossings or rearing (Lat, 1967;Miezejeski, Lamon, Collier, & Hamilton, 1976). In Experiment 6a, therefore, we asked whether chicks' wheel-running behavior would be differentially affected by the diets used in the preceding experiments and whether selecting chicks would expend calories for activity at the expense of calories for growth or the maintenance of body temperature.…”

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