Overexpression of DeltaFosB in nucleus accumbens mimics the protective addiction phenotype, but not the protective depression phenotype of environmental enrichment.

abstract：:Maternal exposure to infection occurring mid-gestation produces a three-fold increase in the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring. The critical initiating factor appears to be the maternal immune activation (MIA) that follows infection. This process can be induced in rodents by exposure of pregnant dams to the viral...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dickerson DD,Bilkey DK

更新日期：2013-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence regarding the association between early drinking (ED) and later dependence is controversial. It has been alternately hypothesized that ED either plays a causal role in the development of dependence or that it is an early marker of increased psychosocial vulnerabilities. Despite a clear rationale for delaying ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Conde K,Peltzer RI,Gimenez PV,Cremonte M

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomical investigations have revealed connections between the intralaminar thalamic nuclei and areas such as the superior colliculus (SC) that receive short latency input from visual and auditory primary sensory areas. The intralaminar nuclei in turn project to the major input nucleus of the basal ganglia, the stria...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Fisher SD,Reynolds JN

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Multiple Arousal Theory (Picard et al., 2016) was proposed to explain retrospective observations of bilateral differences in electrodermal activities occurring in threat-related high-stake situations. The theory proposes different cortical and subcortical structures to be involved in the processing of various face...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bjørhei A,Pedersen FT,Muhammad S,Tronstad C,Kalvøy H,Wojniusz S,Pabst O,Sütterlin S

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:According to recent WHO reports, alcohol remains the number one substance used and abused by adolescents, despite public health efforts to curb its use. Adolescence is a critical period of biological maturation where brain development, particularly the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, undergoes substantial remodelin...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kruse LC,Schindler AG,Williams RG,Weber SJ,Clark JJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive flexibility plays an important role in an individual's ability to adapt to a continuously changing environment and is considered central to goal-oriented behavior. Accordingly, increasing attention has been devoted to understanding the factors, including genetic and early life experiences, which might contri...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gabrys RL,Dixon K,Anisman H

更新日期：2017-12-08 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：:An imbalance in the neural motivational system may underlie Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). This study examines social reward and punishment anticipation in SAD, predicting a valence-specific effect: increased striatal activity for punishment avoidance compared to obtaining a reward. Individuals with SAD (n = 20) and a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Cremers HR,Veer IM,Spinhoven P,Rombouts SA,Roelofs K

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) individuals present increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and AD-type dementia. Here, we investigated the use of green tea extracts containing (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), as co-adjuvant to enhance the effects of environmental enrichment (EE) in Ts65Dn mice, a segmenta...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Catuara-Solarz S,Espinosa-Carrasco J,Erb I,Langohr K,Notredame C,Gonzalez JR,Dierssen M

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have fascinating navigational skills and learning capabilities in the field. To decipher the mechanisms underlying place learning in honeybees, we need paradigms to study place learning of individual honeybees under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we present a novel visual place lear...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheiner R,Frantzmann F,Jäger M,Mitesser O,Helfrich-Förster C,Pauls D

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To study visual learning in honey bees, we developed a virtual reality (VR) system in which the movements of a tethered bee walking stationary on a spherical treadmill update the visual panorama presented in front of it (closed-loop conditions), thus creating an experience of immersion within a virtual environment. In...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buatois A,Flumian C,Schultheiss P,Avarguès-Weber A,Giurfa M

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that epigenetics may play an important role in the establishment and maintenance of sex differences in the brain has garnered great enthusiasm but the reality in terms of actual advances has been slow. Two general approaches include the comparison of a particular epigenetic mark in males vs. females and the...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： McCarthy MM,Nugent BM

更新日期：2015-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's Disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. In these experiments, we tested if operant training at an early age affected adult cognitive deficits in the zQ175 KI Het (zQ175) mouse model of HD. In Experiment 1 we trained zQ175 mice in a f...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Curtin PC,Farrar AM,Oakeshott S,Sutphen J,Berger J,Mazzella M,Cox K,He D,Alosio W,Park LC,Howland D,Brunner D

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although an effective treatment for pediatric brain tumors, cranial radiation therapy (CRT) damages surrounding healthy tissue, thereby disrupting brain development. Animal models of pediatric CRT have primarily relied on visual tasks to assess cognitive impairment. Moreover, there has been a lack of sex comparisons a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Perez EC,Rodgers SP,Inoue T,Pedersen SE,Leasure JL,Gaber MW

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Darwin (1872) postulated that emotional expressions contain universals that are retained across species. We recently showed that human rating responses were strongly affected by a listener's familiarity with vocalization types, whereas evidence for universal cross-taxa emotion recognition was limited. To disentangle t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheumann M,Hasting AS,Zimmermann E,Kotz SA

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The present mini-review was aimed at exploring the frontal EEG asymmetry of mood. With respect to emotion, interpreted as a discrete affective process, mood is more controllable, more nebulous, and more related to mind/cognition; in addition, causes are less well-defined than those eliciting emotion. Therefore, firstl...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Palmiero M,Piccardi L

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous reports indicate that learning and memory of conditioned responses are accompanied by genesis of dendritic spines in the hippocampus, although there is a conspicuous lack of information regarding spine modifications after behavioral extinction. There is ample evidence that treatments that typically produce am...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Garín-Aguilar ME,Díaz-Cintra S,Quirarte GL,Aguilar-Vázquez A,Medina AC,Prado-Alcalá RA

更新日期：2012-03-16 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：:Major depression (MD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, severely affecting the quality of life of millions of people worldwide. Despite the availability of several classes of antidepressants, treatment efficacy is still very variable and many patients do not respond to the treatment. Clomipramine (CMI),...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Balsevich G,Namendorf C,Gerlach T,Uhr M,Schmidt MV

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-machine interface (BMI) research assumes that patients with disconnected neural pathways could naturally control a prosthetic device by volitionally modulating sensorimotor cortical activity usually responsible for movement coordination. However, computational approaches to motor control challenge this view. Thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Galán F,Baker SN

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Supplementary Eye Field (SEF) and the Frontal Eye Field (FEF) have been described as participating in gaze shift control. Recent evidence suggests, however, that other areas of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex also influence gaze shift. Herein, we have investigated electrically evoked ear- and eye movements from ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lanzilotto M,Perciavalle V,Lucchetti C

更新日期：2015-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The insular cortex (IC) is considered a rich hub for context-sensitive emotions/social cognition. Patients with focal IC stroke provide unique opportunities to study socio-emotional processes. Nevertheless, Couto et al. (2013b) have recently reported controversial results regarding IC involvement in emotion and social...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Limongi R,Tomio A,Ibanez A

更新日期：2014-11-04 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：:Emotion regulation therapy (ERT) is an efficacious treatment for distress disorders (i.e., depression and anxiety), predicated on a conceptual model wherein difficult to treat distress arises from intense emotionality (e.g., neuroticism, dispositional negativity) and is prolonged by negative self-referentiality (e.g.,...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scult MA,Fresco DM,Gunning FM,Liston C,Seeley SH,García E,Mennin DS

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete populations of brain cells signal differing types of spatial information. These "spatial cells" are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites. We describe here, for the first time, cells in the anterior claustrum of the freely-moving rat encoding place, boundary and object information. This nov...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Jankowski MM,O'Mara SM

更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Moral behavior has been a key topic of debate for philosophy and psychology for a long time. In recent years, thanks to the development of novel methodologies in cognitive sciences, the question of how we make moral choices has expanded to the study of neurobiological correlates that subtend the mental processes invol...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pellegrini S,Palumbo S,Iofrida C,Melissari E,Rota G,Mariotti V,Anastasio T,Manfrinati A,Rumiati R,Lotto L,Sarlo M,Pietrini P

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear leak currents have been implicated in the regulation of neuronal excitability, generation of neuronal and network oscillations, and network state transitions. Yet, few studies have directly tested the dependence of network oscillations on leak currents or explored the role of leak currents on network activity. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zhao S,Golowasch J,Nadim F

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine mediates diverse functions such as motivation, reward, attention, learning/memory and sleep/arousal. Recent studies using model organisms including the fruit fly, have elucidated various physiological functions of dopamine, and identified specific neural circuits for these functions. Flies with mutations in t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ueno T,Kume K

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to validate the psychometric properties of a recently developed paradigm that aims to measure salience attribution processes proposed to contribute to positive psychotic symptoms, the Salience Attribution Test (SAT). The "aberrant salience" measure from the SAT showed good face validity in previous results, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schmidt K,Roiser JP

更新日期：2009-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyriproxyfen is one of the most used larvicides and insecticides; it acts as an analog of juvenile insect hormone (a growth regulator). It is highly toxic during all stages of mosquito development, suppresses metamorphosis, and interferes in insect reproduction and proliferation. Pyriproxyfen and its main metabolite h...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gusso D,Reolon GK,Gonzalez JB,Altenhofen S,Kist LW,Bogo MR,Bonan CD

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00