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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2018

Octopamine Shifts the Behavioral Response From Indecision to Approach or Aversion in

Gerbera Claßen, Henrike Scholz

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Selective octopaminergic tuning of mushroom body circuits during memory formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024
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  11. Octopamine in the mushroom body circuitry for learning and memory.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024
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  18. The Neurotransmitters Involved inFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gerbera ClaßenDepartment of Biology, Institute for Zoology, Biocenter, Albertus-Magnus University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Henrike ScholzDepartment of Biology, Institute for Zoology, Biocenter, Albertus-Magnus University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
University of Cologne · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals must make constant decisions whether to respond to external sensory stimuli or not to respond. The activation of positive and/or negative reinforcers might bias the behavioral response towards approach or aversion. To analyze whether the activation of the octopaminergic neurotransmitter system can shift the decision between two identical odor sources, we active in

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Identifiers

PMID30018540
PMCPMC6037846
OpenAlexW2810527469

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