The effects of electroconvulsive shocks on gestation and maternal behavior. II.

Rosvold, H. Enger

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“…Maternal behavior and pregnancy have been found by Rosvold (35,36) to be seriously affected by ECS. The changes are more extensive and clear-cut than reported changes in maze learning.…”

Section: Behavior After Damage To the Brainmentioning

confidence: 93%

Animal and Physiological Psychology

Do¹

1950

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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The subject matter of this chapter does not really form a separate department of psychology. Physiological and animal psychologists are concerned with the same problems and the same theories as other psycho logists. Physiological psychology is distinctive, however, in its use of a particular kind of method and in its conviction that when one has postu lated some process intervening between sensory stimulation -and the consequent behavior (to permit theory to deal with facts that would otherwise be discrepant with it), one has the scientific obligation to sub ject the hypothesis to every feasible test, and to examine the properties of "intervening variables" as directly as possible. Otherwise, error may often be needlessly perpetuated.Animal psychology likewise is not a theoretically distinctive zone, but comparative psychology is distinctive in much the same way that physio logical psychology is; and it is comparative psychology that is discussed in the present chapter. Animal psychology is the psychology of learning, of perception, of emotion, even of thought, and its peculiarity is often only in the use of co-operative subjects that remain conveniently in cages and can be found when they are needed. COMPARATIVE STUDIESThe comparative method, theoretically, is analogous to the physiologi cal method, as 1 correlation of structure with function. Since evolution has provided animals with different structures, neural, sensory, or motor, one may proceed experimentally to discover what features of behavior vary with changes in a particular structure (especially in the central nervous system), just as one may modify structure by surgical operation within a single species and observe the correlated changes in behavior. It has proved difficult in practice to make much use of the comparative method, because one usually cannot separate out one structural variable while controlling others; the effect of size of cerebrum per se, for example, is not known because any great increase in the cerebrum is also accom panied by complex changes in sensory and niotor structures. Few exact studies of this kind have ever been made, but occasional'�ontributions have been of great value. , Another approach, in which the comparison is implicit but still impor tant, involves the study of lower animals in which behavior is (prC9ump tively) simpler. This includes the study of "instinctive" behavior, ann the history of psychology repeatedly shows that higher behavior patterns 1

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“…Maternal behavior and pregnancy have been found by Rosvold (35,36) to be seriously affected by ECS. The changes are more extensive and clear-cut than reported changes in maze learning.…”

Section: Behavior After Damage To the Brainmentioning

confidence: 93%

Animal and Physiological Psychology

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1950

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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“…Following this line of thought, Stone and Walker (9) made a preliminary study of the effect of ECS under ether anesthesia on gestation and maternal behavior. Rosvold (6) had found that ECS, if given to rats at the proper points in time, tends both to interfere with normal gestation and to disrupt the patterns of maternal care of newborn infants. The Stone and Walker report suggests, however, that ether anesthesia at the time of treatment tends to block this effect of ECS.…”

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The effect of electroconvulsive shock on a conditioned emotional response: the effect of electroconvulsive shock under ether anesthesia.

Hunt¹,

Jernberg²,

Lawlor³

1953

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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“…Studies by other investigators (7,10,11,12,13) have pointed to changes in the autonomic nervous system following ECS in the rat. Actual brain damage is a possibility, but presently an undemonstrated one for this animal.…”

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Effects of electroshock convulsions on learning in rats as a function of age.

Tattan¹

1957

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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Investigation of the effects of the age of the rat when it begins a series of electroshock convulsions upon the relative amount and duration of subsequent behavioral impairment is needed to help clarify the factors which influence postconvulsive behavior in the rat, and thus to contribute to a theory of such behavior. Various hypotheses have been advanced (4, 5) concerning the effects of age at the time of convulsive treatment in the rat, but only Hayes (5), to this writer's knowledge, has published relevant data, and this was incidental to his primary experimental concern.

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The effects of electroconvulsive shocks on gestation and maternal behavior. II.

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Animal and Physiological Psychology

Animal and Physiological Psychology

The effect of electroconvulsive shock on a conditioned emotional response: the effect of electroconvulsive shock under ether anesthesia.

Effects of electroshock convulsions on learning in rats as a function of age.

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