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. 1967 Nov;10(6):571–579. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1967.10-571

An inexpensive electro-fistular swivel for negative feedback control of self-stimulation1

Jaak Panksepp, Jay A Trowill, Arnold Trehub
PMCID: PMC1338431  PMID: 6080836

Abstract

A swivel was developed for concurrent intraorganismic fluid injection and intracranial electrical stimulation of the unrestrained rat. Effects of various intragastric injections on bar-pressing maintained by electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus were studied. In some subjects, intragastric injections of either water or milk decreased the rate of responding. This decrease resulted from pauses in responding rather than from decreases in the local rates of responding. The decrement in responding occurred at a lower gastric volume during milk injection than during water injection. In other subjects, however, neither water, milk, nor 32% sucrose injections affected the rate of self-stimulation.

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