title: Posttrial electrical stimulation of the dorsal hippocampus facilitates acquisition of the nictitating membrane response.
abstract: Rabbits with electrodes implanted in the dorsal hippocampus were trained on the acquisition of the nictitating membrane response. Posttrial application of subseizure-level electrical stimulation within a single session resulted in a facilitation of nictitating membrane response conditioning. In contrast, seizure-level stimulation within a single session and subseizure-level stimulation in multiple sessions had no facilitatory or deleterious effects on conditioning. It is suggested that dorsal hippocampus stimulation facilitates conditioning by activation of midbrain and cerebellar circuits.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000502:physiology; D003215:Conditioning, Eyelid / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000502:physiology; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D011817:Rabbits