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T N Sollertinskaya1, N N Korinkina
1I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.
Abstract:
The roles of vasopressin (arginine-vasopressin) in controlling conditioned operant food-procuring reflexes and various types of memory were studied in monkeys. Types of memory were: conditioned reflex, image (Hunter-Kerr test), short-term, and long-term. The effects of vasopressin were assessed in terms of objective measures of higher nervous activity: movement and autonomous functions. These studies showed that administration of vasopressin to monkeys had different effects on simple operant food-procuring responses and memory processes. Vasopressin had greater effects on memory processes and the restoration of memory after functional derangements of higher nervous activity. The question of the formation of the two types of effect of vasopressin on higher nervous activity is discussed in relation to the evolution of mammals.
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