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Responses to moderate functional loads by rats with individual behavioral features

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    Formation of food conditioned reflexes and induction of neurosis, as two functionally different loading tests, give rise to activation of different systems of responses to presentation of a standard stress stimulus (“open field”): The first enhances biologically positive components of orienting-investigative behavior, the second enhances neurotransmitter and autonomic responses, i.e., components of a biologically negative state.

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    The formation of food conditioned reflexes depresses the biologically negative response to this stress stimulus.

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    The degree of influence of these loading tests differs within the rat population: Animals selectively responsive to the first procedure (group I), those selectively responsive to the second procedure (group III), and those relatively areactive to both procedures (group III) could be distinguished.

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    Correlation was shown between the degree of influence of these loading tests and the character of behavior formed in response to a cry of another individual as a result of electrical stimulation. The groups of animals with different types of behavior, indicated above, exhibit correspondingly high, average, and low degrees of training in avoidance of a closed space during cries of another individual in response to painful stimulation.

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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    M. G. Airapetyants, N. M. Khonicheva, A. Ya. Mekhedova & H. Iliana Wiliar

  2. Institute of Fundamental Brain Research, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Havana

    M. G. Airapetyants, N. M. Khonicheva, A. Ya. Mekhedova & H. Iliana Wiliar

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 994–1002, September–October, 1980.

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Airapetyants, M.G., Khonicheva, N.M., Mekhedova, A.Y. et al. Responses to moderate functional loads by rats with individual behavioral features. Neurosci Behav Physiol 13, 202–208 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148851

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