Self-Determined Stimulus Trains of ICSS Delivered to Preoptic and Forebrain Regions as a Function of Biphasic Rectangular Pulse Frequency
- 1 December 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 17 (3) , 803-806
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.17.3.803
Abstract
Three rats with electrodes implanted in the preoptic area were trained to administer trains of rectangular biphasic pulses to their own brains for as long as they held a lever down. With pulse frequency as the independent variable it was found that mean response duration was a negatively accelerated decreasing function of pulse frequency. The relation between response rate and frequency suggests an inverted U-shaped function. Other Ss with electrodes placed more anteriorly (forebrain), under conditions of self-administered electrical stimulation would depress the box and hold it down until a convulsion was produced.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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