CORTICOSTERONA Y MEMORIA DE LA FRUSTRACIÓN

2005 
La frustracion es la reaccion emocional ante la disminucion u omision de un reforzador esperado. El contraste negativo sucesivo consumatorio (CNSc) es un protocolo que permite estudiar la respuesta de frustracion. Los sujetos reciben sesiones de cinco minutos de acceso a un reforzador de alta magnitud (solucion azucarada al 32% p/v). Inesperadamente el reforzador se les cambia por uno de baja magnitud (solucion azucarada al 4%). La frustracion se infiere a traves de una disminucion abrupta del tiempo de contacto con el bebedero que entrega la solucion azucarada, comparada con grupos controles, que siempre recibieron la solucion 4%. Esta disminucion en el valor del reforzador seria equivalente a la presentacion de un estimulo aversivo. Diversos hallazgos experimentales muestran que la administracion post-entrenamiento de corticosterona modula la consolidacion de la memoria de eventos emocionalmente significativos. En este trabajo presentamos dos experimentos acerca del efecto de la administracion de corticosterona inmediatamente despues del cambio del reforzador en un CNSc. En el experimento 1 se encontro que la corticosterona modula la memoria de la frustracion extendiendo la duracion del contraste. El experimento 2 replica este resultado y evidencia que la administracion de corticosterona luego de 3 horas, no tiene efecto sobre el CNSc. Palabras Clave frustracion, contraste, corticosterona, memoria Abstract CORTICOSTERONE AND THE MEMORY OF FRUSTRATION Frustration is an emotional reaction to the omission or decrement of an expected reinforcer. Consummatory Successive Negative Contrast (cSNC) is a procedure that enables the study frustrative responses. Subjects experience 5-min sessions of access to a high-magnitude reinforcer (32% sucrose solution w/v). Then, In an unexpected manner, the reinforcer is downshifted (4% sucrose solution). Frustration is inferred from the sharp decline in goal-tracking time (the goal is from where the reinforcer can be consumed) of shifted subjects, relative to the consummatory behavior of controls always drinking the 4% solution. This reward downshift has similar consequences as the presentation of aversive stimuli. It has also been found that post-training corticosterone administration affects memory consolidation of emotional significant events. In the present study we show two experiments about the effect of corticosterone adminestered immediately after the reward downshift in a cSNC procedure. In Experiment 1 corticosterone affected memory as measured by an increased duration of the contrast effect. In Experiment 2, we replicate what was found in Experiment 1, and we also found that corticosterone adminestered after 3 h has no effect on contrast. Key words frustration, contrast, corticosterone, memory
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