Psychol. Neurosci. vol.1 número1

Promising results from SC research have shown that stem cell grafts can successfully recover animal models of Parkinson’s disease (Bjorklund et al., 2002), Alzheimer’s

The irst states a dominant role for the right hemisphere in emotional processing, whereas the second assumes that the left hemisphere is dominant for positive emotions and the

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the interaction of two kinds of external stimuli (long-term tactile stimulation and underwater trauma) on the exploratory behavior

As far as the conventional anxiety measures — entries and time spent in open arms and their extremities — are concerned (Pellow, Chopin, File, & Briley, 1985; Cruz

addition to the fact that both saline and luoxetine treated rats showed enhanced immobility time when pre-treated with haloperidol, clearly suggest a strong dopaminergic

In addition to conventional parameters of open arm exploration (i.e. percentages of open arm entries and of time spent in these arms), risk assessment- related behaviors were

The evaluation included the following cognitive functions: visual and auditory-verbal attention, visuoperceptual and visuoconstructive abilities, visuomotor dexterity,

Hence, the aim of this study is to compare the attention, verbal episodic memory, working memory, visuoconstructive skills, executive functions, and global cognitive