“…Orexin-A binds with high affinity to OX1R (Sakurai et al, 1998), which is expressed widely throughout memory-related areas in the brain (Trivedi et al, 1998;Hervieu et al, 2001;Marcus et al, 2001), including CA1, DG and CA2 of the hippocampus (HPC), the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and retrosplenial cortex (RSC), and the administration of SB-334867 can result in reduced c-Fos expression in the above-mentioned areas (García-Brito et al, 2018). In addition, several studies have described how the selective blockade of OX1R can impair a spatial task in the Morris Water Maze (MWM) (Akbari et al, 2006;Akbari, et al, 2007;García-Brito et al, 2018), while orexin-A administration to rodents has been reported to have facilitative effects on passive avoidance (Jaeger et al, 2002;Telegdy & Adamik, 2002) and spatial (Zhao et al, 2014) memory tasks. Furthermore, an increase in perseverative errors has been observed in discrimination tasks after the blockade of OX1R in the basal forebrain (BF) (Piantadosi et al, 2015).…”