The acoustic startle reflex: neurons and connections

JS Yeomans, PW Frankland - Brain research reviews, 1995 - Elsevier
The startle reflex protects animals from blows or predatory attacks by quickly stiffening the
limbs, body wall and dorsal neck in the brief time period before directed evasive or defensive …

Brain stem circuits mediating prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex

M Fendt, L Li, JS Yeomans - Psychopharmacology, 2001 - Springer
Rationale: Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex occurs when brief, non-startling tactile,
acoustic or visual stimuli are presented 20–500 ms before the startling stimulus. Objective: …

A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation.

CR Gallistel, P Shizgal, JS Yeomans - Psychological review, 1981 - psycnet.apa.org
Quantitative properties of the neural system mediating the rewarding and priming effects of
medial forebrain bundle (MFB) stimulation in the rat have been determined by experiments …

Tactile, acoustic and vestibular systems sum to elicit the startle reflex

JS Yeomans, L Li, BW Scott, PW Frankland - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
The startle reflex is elicited by intense tactile, acoustic or vestibular stimuli. Fast
mechanoreceptors in each modality can respond to skin or head displacement. In each modality, …

[HTML][HTML] CBP histone acetyltransferase activity regulates embryonic neural differentiation in the normal and Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome brain

…, A Gauthier-Fisher, H Wang, L He, J Yeomans… - Developmental cell, 2010 - cell.com
Increasing evidence indicates that epigenetic changes regulate cell genesis. Here, we ask
about neural precursors, focusing on CREB binding protein (CBP), a histone …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasonic vocalizations induced by sex and amphetamine in M2, M4, M5 muscarinic and D2 dopamine receptor knockout mice

H Wang, S Liang, J Burgdorf, J Wess, J Yeomans - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Adult mice communicate by emitting ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) during the appetitive
phases of sexual behavior. However, little is known about the genes important in controlling …

[PDF][PDF] M5 muscarinic receptors are required for prolonged accumbal dopamine release after electrical stimulation of the pons in mice

GL Forster, JS Yeomans, J Takeuchi… - The Journal of …, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
Midbrain dopamine neurons are activated directly by cholinergic agonists or by stimulation
of the cholinergic neurons in the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus (LDT) of the pons in rats. In …

Rewarding brain stimulation: role of tegmental cholinergic neurons that activate dopamine neurons.

JS Yeomans, A Mathur, M Tampakeras - Behavioral neuroscience, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to John S. Yeomans,
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A1 …

Role of tegmental cholinergic neurons in dopaminergic activation, antimuscarinic psychosis and schizophrenia

JS Yeomans - Neuropsychopharmacology, 1995 - nature.com
Cholinergic neurons of the pedunculopontine nucleus (Ch5) and laterodorsal tegmental
nucleus (Ch6) monosynaptically activate dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, zona …

Parvalbumin and GAD65 interneuron inhibition in the ventral hippocampus induces distinct behavioral deficits relevant to schizophrenia

…, JD Cajanding, MA Woodin, JS Yeomans… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Hyperactivity within the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) has been linked to both psychosis in
humans and behavioral deficits in animal models of schizophrenia. A local decrease in GABA-…