The reorientation and maze behavior of the rat after noise-fright and electroshock convulsions.

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Using 30 [male] and [female] animals from which 250 electrically induced and 50 "noise-fright" (referred to by ethers as audiogenic) seizures were obtained, the authors investigated the effect of these seizures upon performance in a previously learned water-maze problem (apparently a brightness discrimination problem). Motivation was to escape from water at 15[degree]. They find that animals given electrical shock (80-85 volts for 0.3 sec. through ear-clips) convulsions remained in the water longer than the noise-fright animals, although error scores seem comparable for the 2 groups. It is suggested that repeated experience with electrically induced convulsions results in behavior which displays "many of the signs of ''experimental neurosis." Maze performance seemed unaffected by a long series of such induced convulsions.

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