Genetic dissection of medial habenula-interpeduncular nucleus pathway function in mice.

abstract：:Affective tactile stimulation plays a key role in the maturation of neural circuits, but the development of brain mechanisms processing touch is poorly understood. We therefore used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain responses to soft brush stroking of both glabrous (palm) and hairy (forearm) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Björnsdotter M,Gordon I,Pelphrey KA,Olausson H,Kaiser MD

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Early life adversity increases anxiety in adult rodents and primates, and increases the risk for developing post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) in humans. We hypothesized that early adversity impairs the use of learning signals -negative, aversive prediction errors-to reduce fear in uncertainty. To test this hypothesis, we...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wright KM,DiLeo A,McDannald MA

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation intention has proven effective in regulating intense emotions but is found to be difficult when instructed regulation is used. Here, we aim to test whether automatic reappraisal-based implementation intention (RII) downregulates intense negative emotion more efficiently than controlled reappraisal (CR) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chen S,Yu K,Yang J,Yuan J

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic surgery is a widely used procedure in neuroscience research to study the brain's regulation of feeding behavior. In line with this notion, this study aims to assess how food consumption and feeding patterns are affected in response to the use of auditory bars that preserve or damage the tympanic membrane ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Barahona MJ,Rojas J,Uribe EA,García-Robles MA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological role of synaptic zinc has remained largely enigmatic since its initial detection in hippocampal mossy fibers over 50 years ago. The past few years have witnessed a number of studies highlighting the ability of zinc ions to regulate ion channels and intracellular signaling pathways implicated in neuro...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sindreu C,Storm DR

更新日期：2011-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In male rats, copulation to satiety induces a long-lasting sexual inhibitory state, considered to rely on a decreased sexual motivation. Dopaminergic transmission at the mesolimbic system plays a central role in the regulation of male sexual motivation. Endocannabinoids (eCBs) modulate the activity of the mesolimbic s...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Canseco-Alba A,Rodríguez-Manzo G

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive behavior is thought to divide into two motivational elements: The first being a self-defensively motivated aggression against threat and a second, hedonically motivated "appetitive" aggression. Appetitive aggression is the less understood of the two, often only researched within abnormal psychology. Our app...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Moran JK,Weierstall R,Elbert T

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the cause of psychiatric disorders is a goal of modern neuroscience, and will hopefully lead to the discovery of treatments to either prevent or alleviate the suffering caused by these diseases. One roadblock to attaining this goal is the realization that neuropsychiatric diseases are rarely due to a singl...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Karatsoreos IN

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety is of paramount importance for animals, as it allows assessment of the environment while minimizing exposure to potential threats. Furthermore, anxiety disorders are highly prevalent. Consequently, the neural circuitry underlying anxiety has been a topic of great interest. In this mini review, we will discuss ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Adhikari A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the differences in perceptual awareness for stimuli at the threshold of awareness can arise from different global brain states before stimulus onset indexed by the EEG microstate. We used a metacontrast backward masking paradigm in which subjects had to discriminate between two weak stimuli and...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Britz J,Díaz Hernàndez L,Ro T,Michel CM

更新日期：2014-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of place cells, the hippocampus is thought to be the neural substrate of a cognitive map. The later discovery of head direction cells, grid cells and border cells, as well as of cells with more complex spatial signals, has led to the idea that there is a brain system devoted to providing the animal...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Poucet B,Chaillan F,Truchet B,Save E,Sargolini F,Hok V

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between stress and drug use is well demonstrated. Stress-induced by repeated social defeat (RSD) enhances the conditioned place preference (CPP) induced by cocaine in mice. The phenomenon of resilience understood as the ability of subjects to overcome the negative effects of stress is the focus of inc...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Calpe-López C,García-Pardo MP,Martínez-Caballero MA,Santos-Ortíz A,Aguilar MA

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping animal performance in a behavioral task to underlying cognitive mechanisms and strategies is rarely straightforward, since a task may be solvable in more than one manner. Here, we show that bumblebees perform well on a concept-based visual discrimination task but spontaneously switch from a concept-based solut...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： MaBouDi H,Solvi C,Chittka L

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how individual differences related to self-regulation interact with alcohol use patterns to predict intimate partner aggression (IPA) is examined. We hypothesized that excessive drinking will be related to partner aggression among those who have low self-regulation. In addition, we explored the extent ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Quigley BM,Levitt A,Derrick JL,Testa M,Houston RJ,Leonard KE

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SOM) and somatostatin receptors (SSTR1-4) are present in all olfactory structures, including the olfactory bulb (OB), where SOM modulates physiological gamma rhythms and olfactory discrimination responses. In this work, histological, viral tracing and transgenic approaches were used to characterize SOM c...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nocera S,Simon A,Fiquet O,Chen Y,Gascuel J,Datiche F,Schneider N,Epelbaum J,Viollet C

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of observers to detect the 3D curvature of motion paths when binocular disparity and motion information were present. On each trial, two displays were observed through shutter-glasses. In one display, a sphere moved along a linear path in the horizontal and depth dimensions. In the other displa...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pierce RS,Bian Z,Braunstein ML,Andersen GJ

更新日期：2013-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana is a prevalent illicit substance used by adolescents, and several studies have indicated that adolescent use can lead to long-term cognitive deficits including problems with attention and memory. However, preclinical animal studies that observe cognitive deficits after cannabinoid exposure during adolescence...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kirschmann EK,McCalley DM,Edwards CM,Torregrossa MM

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The avoidance response is present in pathological anxiety and interferes with normal daily functions. The aim of this article is to shed light on performance markers of active avoidance (AA) using two different rat strains, Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar. Specifically, good and poor performers were evaluated regarding...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： de Oliveira CC,Gouveia FV,de Castro MC,Kuroki MA,Dos Santos LC,Fonoff ET,Teixeira MJ,Otoch JP,Martinez RC

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously developed rat experimental models based on the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm in which only four 15-min episodes of dyadic social interaction with a sex- and weight-matched male Sprague Dawley (SD) rat (1) reversed CPP from cocaine to social interaction despite continuing cocaine training, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kummer KK,Hofhansel L,Barwitz CM,Schardl A,Prast JM,Salti A,El Rawas R,Zernig G

更新日期：2014-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Homophily, or "love for similar others," has been shown to play a fundamental role in the formation of interpersonal ties and social networks. Yet no study has investigated whether perceived similarities can affect tacit coordination. We had 68 participants attempt to maximize real monetary earnings by choosing betwee...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chierchia G,Coricelli G

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:When making decisions, people are typically differently sensitive to gains and losses according to the motivational context in which the choice is performed. As hypothesized by Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT), indeed, goals are supposed to change in relation to the set of possible outcomes. In particular, in a promotion...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lo Gerfo E,Pisoni A,Ottone S,Ponzano F,Zarri L,Vergallito A,Varoli E,Fedeli D,Romero Lauro LJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an affiliative conspecific may alleviate an individual's stress response in threatening conditions. However, the mechanisms and neural circuitry underlying the process of social buffering have not yet been elucidated. Using the domestic pig as an animal model, we examined the effect of a 4-h maternal a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kanitz E,Hameister T,Tuchscherer A,Tuchscherer M,Puppe B

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant vocalizations are one of the most fundamental and innate forms of behavior throughout avian and mammalian orders. They have a critical role in motivating parental care and contribute significantly to fitness and reproductive success. Dysregulation of these vocalizations has been reported to predict risk of cent...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ashbrook DG,Roy S,Clifford BG,Riede T,Scattoni ML,Heck DH,Lu L,Williams RW

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Parietal cortex and adjacent parts of the temporal cortex have recently been associated with bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Similarly, growing evidence suggests that the lateral parietal cortex is crucial for the subjective aspects of episodic autobiographical memory (EAM), which is based on the conscious experience...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bréchet L,Grivaz P,Gauthier B,Blanke O

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence focuses on acetaldehyde (ACD) as the mediator of the rewarding and motivational properties of ethanol. Indeed, ACD stimulates dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and it is self-administered under different conditions. Besides the dopaminergic transmission, the endocannabinoid system has been ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Plescia F,Brancato A,Marino RA,Cannizzaro C

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans value rewards less when these are delivered in the future as opposed to immediately, a phenomenon referred to as delay discounting. While delay discounting has been studied during the anticipation of rewards and in the context of intertemporal decision-making, little is known about its neural correlates in the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ludwig VU,Nüsser C,Goschke T,Wittfoth-Schardt D,Wiers CE,Erk S,Schott BH,Walter H

更新日期：2015-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine plays a role in generating flexible adaptive responses in changing environments. Chronic administration of D2-like agonist quinpirole (QNP) induces behavioral sensitization and stereotypical behaviors reminiscent of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Some of these symptoms persist even after QNP discontinua...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hatalova H,Radostova D,Pistikova A,Vales K,Stuchlik A

更新日期：2014-04-11 00:00:00

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 de...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Claßen G,Scholz H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple types of reward, such as money, food or social approval, are capable of driving behavior. However, most previous investigations have only focused on one of these reward classes in isolation, as such it is not clear whether different reward classes have a unique influence on instrumental responding or whether ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lehner R,Balsters JH,Herger A,Hare TA,Wenderoth N

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory processing in behaving animals, even at early stages, is inextricable from top down influences associated with odor perception. The anatomy of the olfactory network (olfactory bulb, piriform, and entorhinal cortices) and its unique direct access to the limbic system makes it particularly attractive to study ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martin C,Ravel N

更新日期：2014-06-23 00:00:00