University of Toronto

Departments of Psychology and Zoology and Program in Neuroscience

Yeomans Lab Publications

  Yeomans, J. S., Hempel, C. M. E., and Chapman, C. A. Axons and synapses mediating startle‑like responses evoked  by electrical stimulation of the  reticular formation in rats: symmetric and asymmetric collision effects. Brain Research, 617, 309‑319, 1993.

 

   Hempel, C. M. E., Zhou, S. ‑S., Chapman, C. A. and Yeomans, J. S. Crossed reticular formation connections that mediate the startle reflex in rats. Brain Research, 617, 329‑338, 1993.

 

   Yeomans, J. S. and Cochrane, K.  Collision‑like interactions between  acoustic and electrical signals that produce startle reflexes in reticular formation sites. Brain Research, 617, 320‑328, 1993.

    

   Yeomans, J. S. and Pollard, B. A. Axons and synapses mediating fear‑potentiated and electrically evoked startle‑like responses in amygdala and midbrain. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 596‑610, 1993.

 

   Yeomans, J. S., Mathur, A. and Tampakeras, M.  Rewarding brain stimulation: Role of tegmental cholinergic neurons that activate dopamine neurons. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 1077‑1087, 1993.

 

   Buckenham, K. E. and Yeomans, J. S. An uncrossed tectopontine pathway mediates ipsiversive turning. Behavioural Brain Research, 54, 11‑22, 1993.

 

   Zhou, S. ‑S. and Yeomans, J. S. Connections between anterior and medial cortex and caudate‑putamen nucleus in fixed brain with DiI‑‑a fluorescent labeling method. Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Secondae Shanghai, 13, 44‑47, 1993.

 

   Zhou, S. ‑S. and Yeomans, J. S.  Bilateral connections of the nucleus reticularis pontis caudalis in fixed brain of adult rats with fluorescent labelling method. Chinese Journal of Anatomy, 15, 188‑190, 1993.

 

   Chapman, A., and Yeomans, J.  Motor cortex and pyramidal tract axons responsible for electrically evoked forelimb flexion: Refractory periods  and conduction velocities.  Neuroscience, 59, 699‑711, 1994.

 

   Frankland, P. W., Scott, B. W. and Yeomans, J. S.  Axons and  synapses of the startle pathway defined by collision tests and latency analysis in rat. Brain Research, 670, 97‑111, 1995.

 

   Yeomans, J. S.  Role of tegmental cholinergic neurons in dopaminergic activation, anti-muscarinic psychosis and schizophrenia.  Neuropsychopharmacology, 12, 3‑16, 1995.

 

   Yeomans, J. S.  Electrically evoked behaviors:  Axons and synapses mapped with collision tests. Behavioural Brain Research, 67, 121‑132, 1995.

 

   Fletcher, P. J., Tampakeras, M. and Yeomans, J. S.  Median raphe injections of 8‑OH‑DPAT lower frequency thresholds for lateral hypothalamic self‑stimulation.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 52, 65‑71, 1995.

 

   Frankland, P. W. and Yeomans, J. S.  Fear‑potentiated startle and electrically evoked startle mediated by synapses in rostrolateral midbrain. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109, 669‑680, 1995.

 

   Josselyn, S., Frankland, P., Petrisano, S., Yeomans, J. and Vaccarino, F.  The CCK‑B receptor antagonist, L‑365,260, attenuates fear‑potentiated startle.  Peptides, 16, 1313‑1315, 1995.

 

   Yeomans, J. S. and Frankland, P. W.  The acoustic startle reflex:  neurons and connections. Brain Research Reviews, 21, 301‑ 314, 1996.

 

   Frankland, P. W., Josselyn, S. A., Bradweyn, J., Vaccarino, F. J. and Yeomans, J. S.  Intracerebroventricular infusion of the CCK‑ B receptor agonist pentagastrin potentiates acoustic startle. Brain Research, 733, 129‑132, 1996.

 

   Chapman, C. A., Yeomans, J. S., Blaha, C. D. and Blackburn, J. R.  Increased striatal dopamine efflux follows scopolamine administered systematically or to the tegmental pedunculo-pontine nucleus. Neuroscience, 77, 177‑186, 1997.

 

   Frankland, P. W., Josselyn, S. A., Bradweyn, J., Vaccarino, F. J. and Yeomans, J. S.  Activation of amygdala cholecystokinin‑B receptors potentiates acoustic startle response in rat. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 1838-1847, 1997.

 

   Mathur, A. Shandarin, A., LaViolette, S. R., Parker, J. and Yeomans, J. S.  Locomotion and stereotypy induced by scopolamine: Contributions of muscarinic receptors near the pedunculo-pontine tegmental nucleus. Brain Research, 775, 144‑155, 1997.

 

   Yeomans, J. and Baptista, M.  Both nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in ventral tegmental  area contribute to brain‑stimulation reward. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 57, 915‑921, 1997.

 

   Li, L., Priebe, P. M. and Yeomans, J. S.  Prepulse inhibition of acoustic or trigeminal startleof rats by unilateral electrical stimulation of the inferior colliculus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 1187-1198, 1998.

 

   Li, L. and Yeomans, J. S.  Summation between acoustic and trigeminal stimuli evoking startle. Neuroscience, 90, 139-152, 1999.

 

   Scott, B. W., Frankland, P. W., Li, L. and Yeomans, J. S.  Cochlear and trigeminal systems contributing to the startle reflex in rats. Neuroscience, 91, 1565-1574, 1999.

 

   Li, L., Fulton, J. D. and Yeomans, J. S.  Effects of bilateral electrical stimulation of the ventral pallidum on acoustic startle. Brain Research, 836, 164-172, 1999.

 

   LaViolette, S. R., Priebe, M. and Yeomans, J. S.  Role of the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus in scopolamine‑ and amphetamine‑induced locomotion and stereotypy.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 65, 163-174, 2000.

        

   Rada, P. V., Mark, G. P., Yeomans, J. S., Gibbs, G. and Hoebel, B. G.  Acetylcholine release in ventral tegmental area by hypothalamic self-stimulation, eating and drinking.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 65, 375-379, 2000.

 

   Li, L. and Yeomans, J.S.  Using intracranial electrical stimulation to study the timing of prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex.  Brain Research Protocols, 5, 67-74, 2000.

 

   Yeomans, J. S., Takeuchi, J., Baptista, M., Flynn, D., Lepik, K., Nobrega, J., Fulton, J. and Ralph, M. R.  Brain‑stimulation reward thresholds raised by an antisense oligonucleotide for the M5 muscarinic receptor infused near dopamine cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 8861-8867, 2000.

 

   Steidl, S., Li, L. and Yeomans, J. S. Conditioned brain-stimulation reward attenuates the acoustic startle reflex in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, 710-717, 2001.

 

   Yeomans, J., Forster, G. and Blaha, C.  M5 muscarinic receptors are needed for slow activation of dopamine neurons and for rewarding brain stimulation. Life Sciences, 68, 2449-2456, 2001.

 

   Fendt, M., Li, L. and Yeomans, J. S.  Brain stem circuits mediating prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex. Psychopharmacology, 156, 216-224, 2001.

 

   Li, L., Steidl, S. and Yeomans, J. S.  Contributions of the vestibular nucleus and vestibulo-spinal tract to the startle reflex. Neuroscience, 106, 811-821, 2001.

 

   Forster, G. L., Yeomans, J. S., Takeuchi, J. and Blaha, C. D.  M5 muscarinic receptors are required for prolonged accumbal dopamine release following mesopontine electrical stimulation in mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 21, RC190 (1-6), 2001.

 

   Takeuchi, J., Fulton, J., Jia, Z.-P., Abramov-Newerly, W., Jamot, L., Sud, M., Coward, D., Ralph, M., Roder, J., Yeomans, J. Increased drinking in mutant mice with truncated M5 muscarinic receptor genes. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 72, 117-123, 2002.

            

   Yeomans, J.S., Li, L. Scott, B. W., Frankland, P. W. Tactile, acoustic and vestibular systems sum to elicit the startle reflex. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 26, 1-11, 2002.

 

   Lin, C., Wan, X., Zhao, W., Ma, C., Ma, C. F., Gao, Y., Zhou, Y., Yeomans, J. S. and Li, L. Enhancement of electrically evoked startle-like responses by tetanic stimulation of the superior colliculus. NeuroReport, 13, 1769-1773, 2002.

 

   Chintoh, A., Fulton, J., Koziel, N., Aziz, M., Sud, M. and Yeomans, J.  Role of cholinergic receptors in locomotion induced by scopolamine or oxotremorine-M.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 76, 53-61, 2003.

 

   Cain, S., Verwey, M., Hood, S., Lecknikas, P., Karatsoreos, I., Yeomans, J. S. and Ralph, M.  Reward and aversive stimuli produce similar nonphotic phase shifts.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 131-137, 2004.

 

   Steidl, S., Faerman, P., Li, L. and Yeomans, J. S. Kynurenate in the pontine reticular formation inhibits acoustic and trigeminal nucleus-evoked startle, but not vestibular  nucleus-evoked startle. Neuroscience, 126, 127-136, 2004.

 

   DeLuca, V., Wang, H., Wong, G. W. H., Yeomans, J., Kennedy, J. L.. Cholinergic system genes, CHRM5, CHRNA7 in 15q13 region linked with schizophrenia. Neuropsychobiology, in press.

 

   Wang, H., Ng, K., Hayes, D., Gao, X., Forster, G., Blaha, C. and Yeomans, J. S. Improvement in latent inhibition in mice mutant for the M5 muscarinic receptor gene associated with the human 15q schizophrenia locus. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2004.

 

   Yeomans,  J. S., Ko, C. H., Wang, H., Ralph, M. R. In vivo electroporation of the wild type casein kinase 1-epsilon gene into the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the tau mutant hamsters lengthens circadian period. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 2004.

 

   Steidl, S., Ng, K., Bhattacharyya, M., Wang, H., Yeomans, J. S. In vivo electroporation of the M5 muscarinic receptor gene into the ventral tegmental area facilitates brain-stimulation reward in rats. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 2004.

 

   Wang, H., Butt, Z., Chui, G., Madden, A., Steidl, S., Yeomans, J.S.  In vivo electroporation of the M5 muscarinic receptor gene into the rat ventral tegmental area with IRES hr-GFP vectors. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 2004.

 

   Huang, J., Wu, X., Yeomans, J., Li, L. Tetanic stimulation of auditory thalamus or auditory cortex produces opposite effects on the acoustic startle reflex in awake rats. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 2004.

 

 

Books:

   Yeomans, J. S.  Principles of Brain Stimulation.  New York: Oxford  University Press, 1990, 182 pp.  Methods for defining neural substrates and circuits using electrical brain stimulation.

1993-2004