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Restricted lesions of the globus pallidus which did not cause aphagia or adipsia or affect open-field behavior in either sex retarded acquisition of two-way avoidance behavior by both male and female rats, but interfered with the development of one-way avoidance only by males. Sex differences in the behavioral effects of pallidal lesions differ from sex differences in the effects of striatal lesions and deficits in avoidance behaviors can be dissociated from impairments in consummatory activity that also may accompany basal ganglia damage.
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Beatty, W.W., Siders, W.A. Effects of small lesions in the globus pallidus on open-field and avoidance behavior in male and female rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 98–100 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329292
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329292