Table 1.

Effects of injection of muscimol (0.01 pM –1.0 pM) into the latero-anterior hypothalamus on general measures of behavioral activation, compared with AAS-treated hamsters injected with saline (0.0 pM) into the latero-anterior hypothalamus on test day.

BEHAVIOR	Dose Muscimol (pM)
	0	0.01	0.1	1	Probability
Social Behavior (±SEM)
Flank Marking	2.5 ± 0.9	1.25 ± 0.4	0.9 ± 0.4	1.1 ± 0.5	NS
Contact Time (sec)	462.5 ± 25.2	444.6 ± 28.5	460.8 ± 23.8	440.6 ± 21.6	NS
Comfort Behavior (±SEM)
Self Grooming	7.1 ± 1.3	4.1 ± 0.9*	3.1 ± 0.7**	4.5 ± 0.8	< 0.05
Locomotion Behavior (±SEM)
Line Crosses	43.5 ± 4.8	39.1 ± 2.9	34.1 ± 2.6*	39 ± 5.1	< 0.05
Wall Climbing	12.5 ± 2.1	13.9 ± 0.5	9.1 ± 2.1	8.6 ± 2.3	NS

Data represents mean values with standard error of the mean.

NS, not significant

^*Differs from adolescent AAS-treated controls (0.0 pM dose), p<0.05

^**Differs from adolescent AAS-treated controls (0.0 pM dose), p<0.01