Motor imagery in unipolar major depression.

abstract：:Impaired sensorimotor gating occurs in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and can be measured using the prepulse inhibition (PPI) paradigm of the acoustic startle response. This assay is frequently used to validate animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders and to explore the therapeutic potential of ne...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rohleder C,Jung F,Mertgens H,Wiedermann D,Sué M,Neumaier B,Graf R,Leweke FM,Endepols H

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Conflicting data exist on sensitivity changes of the melanocortin system during diet-induced obesity. We hypothesized that melanocortin sensitivity depends on diet composition, in particular on the fat content rather than the level of obesity. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of diet co...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： van den Heuvel JK,Eggels L,van Rozen AJ,Fliers E,Kalsbeek A,Adan RA,la Fleur SE

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a trophic factor regulating cell survival and synaptic plasticity. Recent findings indicate that BDNF could be a potential regulatory factor for cognitive functioning in normal and/or neuropathological conditions. With regard to neurological disorders, recent data suggest th...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Costa A,Peppe A,Carlesimo GA,Zabberoni S,Scalici F,Caltagirone C,Angelucci F

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased reactivity to stress is maladaptive and linked to abnormal behaviors and psychopathology. Chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) alters catecholaminergic neurotransmission and remodels neuronal circuits involved in learning, attention and decision making. Glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is essential for...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Buhusi M,Brown CK,Buhusi CV

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is related to several physiological processes, associated to the modulation of brain excitability, with impact in the expression of susceptibility and control of epileptic seizures. The cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R) is widely expressed in the brain, especially in forebrain limbic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lazarini-Lopes W,da Silva-Júnior RMP,Servilha-Menezes G,Do Val-da Silva RA,Garcia-Cairasco N

更新日期：2020-12-21 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：:Instrumental learning and decision-making rely on two parallel systems: a goal-directed and a habitual system. In the past decade, several paradigms have been developed to study these systems in animals and humans by means of e.g., overtraining, devaluation procedures and sequential decision-making. These different pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sjoerds Z,Dietrich A,Deserno L,de Wit S,Villringer A,Heinze HJ,Schlagenhauf F,Horstmann A

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Very preterm (VPT) infants need long-lasting hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) during which they are daily exposed to pain-related stress. Alterations of DNA methylation at the promoter region of the SLC6A4 have been associated with early adverse experiences in infants. The main aim of the pre...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Provenzi L,Fumagalli M,Sirgiovanni I,Giorda R,Pozzoli U,Morandi F,Beri S,Menozzi G,Mosca F,Borgatti R,Montirosso R

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research suggests that conceptual or emotional factors could influence the perceptual processing of stimuli. In this article, we aimed to evaluate the effect of social information (positive, negative, or no information related to the character of the target) on subjective (perceived and felt valence and arousal...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mermillod M,Grynberg D,Pio-Lopez L,Rychlowska M,Beffara B,Harquel S,Vermeulen N,Niedenthal PM,Dutheil F,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:MANY FLYING INSECTS EXHIBIT AN ACTIVE FLIGHT AND GAZE STRATEGY: purely translational flight segments alternate with quick turns called saccades. To generate such a saccadic flight pattern, the animals decide the timing, direction, and amplitude of the next saccade during the previous translatory intersaccadic interval...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lindemann JP,Egelhaaf M

更新日期：2013-01-11 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：:One function of glucocorticoids is to restore homeostasis after an acute stress response by providing negative feedback to stress circuits in the brain. Loss of this negative feedback leads to elevated physiological stress and may contribute to depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. We investigated t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Griffiths BB,Schoonheim PJ,Ziv L,Voelker L,Baier H,Gahtan E

更新日期：2012-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) is part of the mentalizing network, a set of brain regions consistently engaged in inferring mental states. However, its precise function in this network remains unclear. It has recently been proposed that the dmPFC is involved in high-level abstract (i.e., categorical) identi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Baetens KL,Ma N,Van Overwalle F

更新日期：2017-03-14 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：:Reactive and proactive controls of actions are cognitive abilities that allow one to deal with a continuously changing environment by adjusting already programmed actions. They also set forthcoming actions by evaluating the outcome of the previous ones. Earlier studies highlighted sex-related differences in the strate...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mione V,Canterini S,Brunamonti E,Pani P,Donno F,Fiorenza MT,Ferraina S

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological communities are organized in trophic levels that share manifold interactions forming complex food webs. Infochemicals can further modify these interactions, e.g., by inducing defenses in prey. The micro-crustacean Daphnia is able to respond to predator-specific chemical cues indicating an increased predatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Weiss LC

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In animals, emotional memory is classically assessed through pavlovian fear conditioning in which a neutral novel stimulus (conditioned stimulus) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus. After conditioning, the conditioned stimulus elicits a fear response characterized by a wide range of behavioral and physi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hegoburu C,Shionoya K,Garcia S,Messaoudi B,Thévenet M,Mouly AM

更新日期：2011-05-19 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：:Dscam2, a cell surface protein that mediates cellular repulsion, plays a crucial role in the development of the Drosophila melanogaster visual system. Dscam2 generates boundaries between neighboring modules in the fly optic lobe; in Dscam2 mutants this visual system modularity is compromised. Although developmental wi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bosch DS,van Swinderen B,Millard SS

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The startle response is an unconditional reflex, characterized by the rapid contraction of facial and skeletal muscles, to a sudden and intense startling stimulus. It is an especially useful tool in translational research for its consistency across species, simple neural circuitry, and sensitivity to a variety of expe...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pantoni MM,Herrera GM,Van Alstyne KR,Anagnostaras SG

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known regarding inter-individual differences in attentional biases for pain-related information; more knowledge is crucial, since these biases have been associated with differences in pain processing as well as in predicting the risk of postoperative pain. The present study investigated EEG correlates of att...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： van Heck CH,Oosterman JM,de Kleijn KMA,Jongsma MLA,van Rijn CM

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocannabinoid (eCB) system possesses neuromodulatory functions by influencing the release of various neurotransmitters, including γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate. A functional interaction between eCBs and the serotonergic system has already been suggested. Previously, we showed that cannabinoid type-1 (...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Häring M,Enk V,Aparisi Rey A,Loch S,Ruiz de Azua I,Weber T,Bartsch D,Monory K,Lutz B

更新日期：2015-09-03 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：:Comparisons of cognitive impairments between schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BPD) have produced mixed results. We applied different working memory (WM) measures (Digit Span Forward and Backward, Short-delay and Long-delay CPT-AX, N-back) to patients with SZ (n = 23), psychotic BPD (n = 19) and non-psychotic B...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Frydecka D,Eissa AM,Hewedi DH,Ali M,Drapała J,Misiak B,Kłosińska E,Phillips JR,Moustafa AA

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoreception can play a substantial role in long distance navigation by animals. I hypothesize that locomotion guided by a magnetic compass sense could also play a role in short distance navigation. Animals identify mates, prey, or other short distance navigational goals using different sensory modalities (olfacti...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wyeth RC

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of social dominance is important for social species including mice, for preferential access to foods and mates. Male mice establish social rank through agonistic behaviors, which are regulated by gonadal steroid hormone, testosterone, as its original form and aromatized form. It is well known that estrogen...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nakata M,Ågmo A,Sagoshi S,Ogawa S

更新日期：2018-10-22 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：:The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis learns and forms long-term memory (LTM) following both operant conditioning of aerial respiratory behavior and classical conditioning of taste aversive behavior. In the present study, we examined whether there are interstrain differences in the ability to form LTM following these two t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sunada H,Totani Y,Nakamura R,Sakakibara M,Lukowiak K,Ito E

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence is widespread throughout the natural world, prominent examples being predatory violence between species, seasonal violent competition for mating rights and territories within species and food competition both within and between species. These interactions are generally between unrelated individuals with no so...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Broom M

更新日期：2009-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid use is a widespread epidemic, and traumatic stress exposure is a critical risk factor in opioid use and relapse. There is a significant gap in our understanding of how stress contributes to heroin use, and there are limited studies investigating individual differences underlying stress reactivity and subsequent...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stafford NP,Kazan TN,Donovan CM,Hart EE,Drugan RC,Charntikov S

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00