Dorsal periaqueductal gray simultaneously modulates ventral subiculum induced-plasticity in the basolateral amygdala and the nucleus accumbens.

abstract：:We come to understand other people's physical and mental states by re-mapping their bodily states onto our sensorimotor system. This process, also called somatosensory resonance, is an essential ability for social cognition and is stronger when observing ingroup than outgroup members. Here we investigated, first, whet...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Fini C,Cardini F,Tajadura-Jiménez A,Serino A,Tsakiris M

更新日期：2013-11-18 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

abstract：:Work and study increasingly rely on the use of technologies requiring individuals to switch attention rapidly between emails, texts and tasks. This has led to healthy people having problems of attention and concentration and difficulties getting into the "flow," which impedes goal attainment and task completion. Possi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Savulich G,Thorp E,Piercy T,Peterson KA,Pickard JD,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There is conflicting evidence regarding whether calcium-permeable receptors are removed during group I mGluR-mediated synaptic depression. In support of this hypothesis, AMPAR rectification, a correlative index of the synaptic expression of GluA2-lacking calcium-permeable AMPARs (CP-AMPARs), is known to decrease after...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Park K,Song S,Hong I,Song B,Kim J,Park S,Lee J,Song S,An B,Kim J,Lee CJ,Shin KS,Choi S,Lee S

更新日期：2014-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Kynurenine (L-KYN) is a central metabolite of tryptophan degradation through the kynurenine pathway (KP). The systemic administration of L-KYN sulfate (L-KYNs) leads to a rapid elevation of the neuroactive KP metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA). An elevated level of KYNA may have multiple effects on the synaptic transm...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Varga D,Herédi J,Kánvási Z,Ruszka M,Kis Z,Ono E,Iwamori N,Iwamori T,Takakuwa H,Vécsei L,Toldi J,Gellért L

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) is a psychomotor stimulant that is reported to enhance sexual desire and behavior in both men and women, leading to increases in unplanned pregnancies, sexually-transmitted infections, and even comorbid psychiatric conditions. Here, we discuss our rodent model of increased sexually-motivated beh...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rudzinskas SA,Williams KM,Mong JA,Holder MK

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental enrichment (EE) is an experimental setting broadly used for investigating the effects of complex social, cognitive, and sensorimotor stimulations on brain structure and function. Recent studies point out that parental EE experience, even occurring in the pre-reproductive phase, affects neural development...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Cutuli D,Berretta E,Pasqualini G,De Bartolo P,Caporali P,Laricchiuta D,Sampedro-Piquero P,Gelfo F,Pesoli M,Foti F,Begega A,Petrosini L

更新日期：2017-05-09 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：: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

abstract：:Visual attention is an important condition for consumer decision-making. However, not much is known on individuals' determinants of this visual attention. Using eye tracking, this study investigated how psychological values (i.e., materialism) modulate visual attention to specific sources of information (i.e., product...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Audrin C,Brosch T,Sander D,Chanal J

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug addiction is a chronic disorder comprising components of both impulsivity and compulsivity in the so called "addiction cycle" which develops over time from early non-dependent, repetitive, binge-consumption to later post-dependent compulsive consumption. Thus, frequent binge-like intake is a typical pattern of ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rodríguez-Ortega E,Cubero I

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding human behavior remains a grand challenge across disciplines. We used eye tracking to investigate how visual perception is associated with a strategic behavior in the decision process. Gaze activity and eye movement patterns were measured in 14 human participants with different decision strategies. We als...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Peshkovskaya A,Myagkov M

更新日期：2020-10-22 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：:Although previous studies have suggested that depression may be associated with inhibition of evoked pain but facilitation of spontaneous pain, the mechanisms underlying these relationships are unclear. The present study investigated whether the difference between evoked and spontaneous pain on sensory (descending inh...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wang N,Li SG,Lin XX,Su YL,Qi WJ,Wang JY,Luo F

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The eye's pupil undergoes dynamic changes in diameter associated with cognitive effort, motor activity and emotional state, and can be used to index brain state across mammalian species. Recent studies in head-fixed mice have linked arousal-related pupil dynamics with global neural activity as well as the activity of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee CR,Margolis DJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this short review is to highlight rewarding aspects of social interactions for humans and discuss their neural basis. Thereby we report recent research findings to illustrate how social stimuli in general are processed in the reward system and highlight the role of Theory of Mind as one mediating proc...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Krach S,Paulus FM,Bodden M,Kircher T

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Space and shape are distinct perceptual categories. In language, perceptual information can also be used to describe abstract semantic concepts like a "rising income" (space) or a "square personality" (shape). Despite being inherently concrete, co-speech gestures depicting space and shape can accompany concrete or abs...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nagels A,Chatterjee A,Kircher T,Straube B

更新日期：2013-12-18 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：BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption during pregnancy and lactation induces detrimental consequences, that are not limited to the direct in utero effects of the drug on fetuses, but extend to maternal care. However, the occurrence and severity of alcohol toxicity are related to the drinking pattern and the time of exposure. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Brancato A,Plescia F,Lavanco G,Cavallaro A,Cannizzaro C

更新日期：2016-03-03 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：:During perinatal life, sex steroids, such as estradiol, have marked effects on the development and function of the nervous system. Environmental estrogens or xenoestrogens are man-made chemicals, which animal and human population encounter in the environment and which are able to disrupt the functioning of the endocri...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Martini M,Calandreau L,Jouhanneau M,Mhaouty-Kodja S,Keller M

更新日期：2014-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertebrates are used extensively as model species to investigate neuro-endocrine processes regulating behaviors, and many of these processes may be extrapolated to vertebrates. However, when it comes to reproductive processes, many of these model species differ notably in their mode of reproduction. A point in case ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Koene JM

更新日期：2010-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study utilized different theoretical perspectives to better understand motor performance. We refered to concepts of achievement motive-goal incongruence and assessed cortical correlates of self-control. We assumed that more self-control is required when people act in conformance with an incongruent goa...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schüler J,Hofstetter J,Wolff W

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Social cognition and social behaviors are complex phenomena that involve numerous brain areas and underlying neurobiological mechanisms. Embryonic alcohol exposure may lead to the development of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), a disorder that manifests with varying symptoms including abnormal social behavior a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Facciol A,Gerlai R

更新日期：2020-09-25 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：:As a model of anxiety disorder vulnerability, male Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats acquire lever-press avoidance behavior more readily than outbred Sprague-Dawley rats, and their acquisition is enhanced by the presence of a discrete signal presented during the inter-trial intervals (ITIs), suggesting that it is perceived as a...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Beck KD,Jiao X,Smith IM,Myers CE,Pang KC,Servatius RJ

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The central complex in the insect brain is a composite of midline neuropils involved in processing sensory cues and mediating behavioral outputs to orchestrate spatial navigation. Despite recent advances, however, the neural mechanisms underlying sensory integration and motor action selections have remained largely el...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Fiore VG,Kottler B,Gu X,Hirth F

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, optimism is a cognitive construct related to motivation; optimists exert effort, whereas pessimists disengage from effort. In this study, using a recently developed ambiguous-cue interpretation (ACI) paradigm we took the unique opportunity to investigate whether "optimism" as a trait is correlated with moti...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rygula R,Golebiowska J,Kregiel J,Kubik J,Popik P

更新日期：2015-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonian patients experience not only the physical discomfort of motor disorders but also the considerable psychological distress caused by cognitive deficits and behavioral disorders. These two factors can result in a disruption of social relationships during the symptomatic and even the presymptomatic motor stat...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Durand E,Petit O,Tremblay L,Zimmer C,Sgambato-Faure V,Chassain C,Laurent M,Pereira B,Silberberg C,Durif F

更新日期：2015-02-26 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