Title: Motivated feeding behavior elicited by electrical stimulation of the septum
Abstract: Electrical stimulation of the septal region of the rat brain was found to induce a post-stimulation sequence of shaking, grooming and feeding. This stimulation was capable of maintaining an operant response to obtain food in the sated rat. In the deprived rat, such stimulation depressed operant responding for food. Two hypotheses, both involving seizure activity in the limbic lobe, were proposed to account for these results.
Publication Year: 1971
Publication Date: 1971-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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