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Habituation revisited: an updated and revised description of the behavioral characteristics of habituationCatharine H Rankin
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BCV6H1B3, Canada
Neurobiol Learn Mem 92:135-8. 2009..This article thus provides a modern summary of the characteristics defining habituation, and can serve as a convenient primer for those whose research involves stimulus repetition...
Invertebrate learning: what can't a worm learn?Catharine H Rankin
Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2B5, Canada
Curr Biol 14:R617-8. 2004..Analyses of mutations in C. elegans that affect different aspects of experience are beginning to address the nature of learning...- Critical and sensitive periods for reversing the effects of mechanosensory deprivation on behavior, nervous system, and development in Caenorhabditis elegansSusan Rai
Brain Research Center and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dev Neurobiol 67:1443-56. 2007..These results indicate that different effects of early isolation required different amounts and/or timing of stimulation to be reversed... 
An elegant mind: learning and memory in Caenorhabditis elegansEvan L Ardiel
Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2B5, Canada
Learn Mem 17:191-201. 2010..Several genes have been identified with no known role other than mediating behavior plasticity...- Behavioral and genetic characterization of habituation using Caenorhabditis elegansAndrew C Giles
Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neurobiol Learn Mem 92:139-46. 2009..long-term memory for habituation), which are triggered by different training paradigms. The differences in mechanism between these various forms of memory are also beginning to be revealed... - Decreased sensory stimulation reduces behavioral responding, retards development, and alters neuronal connectivity in Caenorhabditis elegansJacqueline K Rose
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
J Neurosci 25:7159-68. 2005..Together, these results indicate that the level of stimulation experienced by C. elegans during development profoundly affects the development of neuronal connectivity and has widespread cellular and behavioral consequences... - Investigations of learning and memory in Caenorhabditis elegansAndrew C Giles
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Int Rev Neurobiol 69:37-71. 2006 - Blocking memory reconsolidation reverses memory-associated changes in glutamate receptor expressionJacqueline K Rose
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2B5
J Neurosci 26:11582-7. 2006..elegans can be altered after retrieval. Furthermore, conditions that impair memory consolidation similarly disrupt memory reconsolidation, suggesting that similar mechanisms are involved... - GLR-1, a non-NMDA glutamate receptor homolog, is critical for long-term memory in Caenorhabditis elegansJacqueline K Rose
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
J Neurosci 23:9595-9. 2003..Thus, long-term memory in C. elegans is dependent on glr-1 and likely involves changes in the expression or localization of glutamate receptors... - Essential role of SBP-1 activation in oxygen deprivation induced lipid accumulation and increase in body width/length ratio in Caenorhabditis elegansChangiz Taghibiglou
Department of Medicine, UBC, Canada Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2B5
FEBS Lett 583:831-4. 2009..This study provides the first evidence suggesting that activation of SREBP1 may be a critical pathogenic factor contributing to chronic hypoxia associated excessive fat accumulation/obesity in humans... - Tap withdrawal circuit interneurons require CREB for long-term habituation in Caenorhabditis elegansTiffany A Timbers
Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Behav Neurosci 125:560-6. 2011..Here we show for the first time that CREB is required for long-term habituation and show that the interneurons of the tap withdrawal response circuit are the locus of plasticity for long-term mechanosensory habituation in C. elegans... - Nematode memory: now, where was I?Catharine H Rankin
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Curr Biol 15:R374-5. 2005..The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is able to use tastes, smells and temperature to locate food. New data show that worms can also detect the level of oxygen in the environment and migrate towards an oxygen level associated with food... - C. elegans: social interactions in a "nonsocial" animalEvan L Ardiel
Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2B5
Adv Genet 68:1-22. 2009..This chapter describes natural polymorphisms in mab-23, plg-1, npr-1, and glb-5 as they relate to two C. elegans social behaviors: male-mating and aggregation... - Nematode behavior: the taste of success, the smell of danger!Catharine H Rankin
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Curr Biol 16:R89-91. 2006..Increased release of the neurotransmitter serotonin onto identified interneurons determines whether C. elegans chooses to feed or leave... - Intensity discrimination deficits cause habituation changes in middle-aged Caenorhabditis elegansTiffany A Timbers
Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Neurobiol Aging 34:621-31. 2013..These data support the idea that declines in stimulus intensity discrimination abilities during aging may be one variable underlying age-related cognitive deficits... - Effects of developmental exposure to ethanol on Caenorhabditis elegansJustin R Davis
Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:853-67. 2008..It has a small nervous system of 302 neurons and a short lifespan of 2 to 3 weeks... - A new group-training procedure for habituation demonstrates that presynaptic glutamate release contributes to long-term memory in Caenorhabditis elegansJacqueline K Rose
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Learn Mem 9:130-7. 2002..The results from these eat-4 worms indicate that glutamate release from the sensory neurons has an important role in the formation of long-term memory for habituation... - From gene to identified neuron to behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegansCatharine H Rankin
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Nat Rev Genet 3:622-30. 2002 - Dishabituating long-term memory for gustatory habituation in the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia niIkkei Shikano
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC
Behav Neurosci 124:701-5. 2010.... - The importance of touch in developmentEvan L Ardiel
Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Paediatr Child Health 15:153-6. 2010..By understanding the underlying mechanisms, as well as the timing and degree of stimulation required to fully reverse the effects of early childhood deprivation, strategies can be developed to best help those in need... - Neuroscience. A bite to rememberCatharine H Rankin
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 296:1624-5. 2002 - Stages of memory in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegansStephan Steidl
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia
Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 2:3-14. 2003.... - Dopamine mediates context-dependent modulation of sensory plasticity in C. elegansKatie S Kindt
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093, USA
Neuron 55:662-76. 2007..Interestingly, the body touch mechanoreceptors can themselves excite the dopamine neurons, forming a positive feedback loop capable of integrating context and experience to modulate mechanosensory attention...