title: Hippocampal modulation of nucleus accumbens: behavioral evidence from amphetamine-induced activity profiles.
abstract: The experiments examined amphetamine-induced locomotion and stereotyped behavior in hippocampal-ablated and control rats for 30 days following surgery. Locomotor counts, stereotypy ratings, and locomotor-time profiles showed that d-amphetamine sulfate produced a selective enhancement of locomotion (cage crosses) at the expense of stereotyped behavior in hippocampal rats relative to normal control rats. This enhancement emerged over the first 2 weeks postsurgery. To examine the role of the striatum in this amphetamine-induced effect, combined hippocampal damage and 6-hydroxydopamine-induced damage of the nucleus accumbens or caudate-putamen were used. These results suggested that amphetamine-enhanced locomotion of hippocampal rats is dependent upon the integrity of the nucleus accumbens and may reflect a change of nucleus accumbens activity relative to caudate-putamen activity. Together these findings suggest that the hippocampus may participate in the control of locomotion by projections that modulate the activity of the nucleus accumbens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: I Q
authors.initials: IQ
authors.lastname: Whishaw
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mittleman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects; D003913:Dextroamphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000502:physiology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects*; D006892:Hydroxydopamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000187:drug effects; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000187:drug effects*; D016627:Oxidopamine; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000187:drug effects; D011699:Putamen / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011954:Receptors, Dopamine / Q000187:drug effects*; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D006892:Hydroxydopamines; D011954:Receptors, Dopamine; D016627:Oxidopamine; D003913:Dextroamphetamine; D004298:Dopamine