Effects of amygdala lesions on body weight, conditioned taste aversion, and neophobia

Physiology & Behavior
B L RollinsB M King

Abstract

Female rats with posterodorsal amygdala (PDA), basolateral amygdala (BLA), or sham lesions were compared regarding ad libitum food intake, weight gain, consumption of a novel food, and acquisition of a conditioned taste aversion (CTA). While only the rats with PDA lesions evidenced substantial weight gains at 10 days after surgery eating standard lab chow (25-45 g more than the other groups), only the rats with BLA lesions demonstrated significant deficits in the CTA and neophobia paradigms. Rats with basolateral lesions, on average, took less than 30 s to begin drinking the novel sweetened condensed milk after pairing with illness while the other groups took approximately 15 min to begin drinking. Also, rats with basolateral lesions ate, on average, 5 g of the novel Froot Loops while the other groups ate approximately 2 g. It is concluded that the changes in food-motivated behavioral tests frequently observed in animals with amygdala lesions do not coexist with the hyperphagia and weight gain of animals with PDA lesions.

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