Lentiviral silencing of GSK-3β in adult dentate gyrus impairs contextual fear memory and synaptic plasticity.

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：:In a conventional view of motor control, the human brain might employ an optimization principle that leads a stereotypical motor behavior which we observe as an averaged behavioral data over subjects. In this scenario, the inter-individual motor variability is considered as an observation noise. Here, we challenged th...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kita K,Osu R,Hosoda C,Honda M,Hanakawa T,Izawa J

更新日期：2019-03-06 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：: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：:Animals rely on sensory feedback from their environment to guide locomotion. For instance, visually guided animals use patterns of optic flow to control their velocity and to estimate their distance to objects (e.g., Srinivasan et al., 1991, 1996). In this study, we investigated how acoustic information guides locomot...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Warnecke M,Lee WJ,Krishnan A,Moss CF

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Social factors play a significant role in the health outcomes of those struggling with mental or physical health issues. People with mental illness experience more social stigmatization and receive less concern for their welfare than do those with physical illness. However, the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shin WG,Woo CW,Jung WH,Kim H,Lee TY,Decety J,Kwon JS

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone reduces anxiety-like behaviors in rodents and increases exploration of anxiogenic parts of the environment. Effects of testosterone on innate defensive behaviors remain understudied. Here, we demonstrate that exogenous testosterone reduces aversion to cat odor in male mice. This is reflected as increased ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Tong WH,Abdulai-Saiku S,Vyas A

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Y chromosome in sex determination and male fertility is well established. It is also known that infertile men are prone to psychological disturbances. Earlier studies in the laboratory identified genes expressed in testes that are putatively regulated by Y chromosome in man and mouse. With the availability...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dey SK,Kamle A,Dereddi RR,Thomas SM,Thummala SR,Kumar A,Chakravarty S,Jesudasan RA

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years, there has been a resurge in the interest to study the relationship between interoception and emotion. By now, it is well established that interoception contributes to the experience of emotions. However, it may also be possible that interoception contributes to the regulation of emotions. To test ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lischke A,Pahnke R,Mau-Moeller A,Jacksteit R,Weippert M

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease is associated with an increased risk of mental disorders and can be exacerbated by stress. In this study which was performed with male 10-week old C57Bl/6N mice, we used dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis to evaluate behavioral changes caused by intestinal inflammation, to assess t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hassan AM,Jain P,Reichmann F,Mayerhofer R,Farzi A,Schuligoi R,Holzer P

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in the honeybee brain has been studied using the appetitive olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension reflex, in which a bee learns the association between an odor and a sucrose reward. In this framework, coupling behavioral measurements of proboscis extension and invasive recordings of neural activ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Roussel E,Sandoz JC,Giurfa M

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Trauma- and stress-related disorders are among the most common types of mental illness affecting the U.S. population. For many of these disorders, there is a striking sex difference in lifetime prevalence; for instance, women are twice as likely as men to be affected by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gonadal st...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nagaya N,Acca GM,Maren S

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Behaviorally controllable stressors confer protection from the neurochemical and behavioral consequences of future uncontrollable stressors, a phenomenon termed "behavioral immunization". Recent data implicate protein synthesis within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) as critical to behavioral immunization. Ad...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Christianson JP,Flyer-Adams JG,Drugan RC,Amat J,Daut RA,Foilb AR,Watkins LR,Maier SF

更新日期：2014-10-02 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：:Disgust is a natural defensive emotion that has evolved to protect against potential sources of contamination and has been recently linked to moral judgements in many studies. However, that people often report feelings of disgust when thinking about feces or moral transgressions alike does not necessarily mean that th...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Oaten M,Stevenson RJ,Williams MA,Rich AN,Butko M,Case TI

更新日期：2018-08-22 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：:We study how the ratio between the length of the second and fourth digit (2D:4D) correlates with choices in social and risk preferences elicitation tasks by building a large dataset from five experimental projects with more than 800 subjects. Our results confirm the recent literature that downplays the link between 2D...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Alonso J,Di Paolo R,Ponti G,Sartarelli M

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying mechanisms of paternal responses to infant signals are poorly understood. Vasopressin has previously been proposed to affect these responses. Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject design (N = 25 expectant fathers), we examined the effect of vasopressin administration on the use of exc...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Alyousefi-van Dijk K,van 't Veer AE,Meijer WM,Lotz AM,Rijlaarsdam J,Witteman J,Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:When stepping onto a stopped escalator, we often perceive an "odd sensation" that is never felt when stepping onto stairs. The sight of an escalator provides a strong contextual cue that, in expectation of the backward acceleration when stepping on, triggers an anticipatory forward postural adjustment driven by a habi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gomi H,Sakurada T,Fukui T

更新日期：2014-03-20 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：: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：: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：: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：:Interactions between social experiences at different stages of development (e.g., with parents as juveniles and peers as subadults) can profoundly shape the expression of social behavior. Rarely are the influences of more than one stage of developmental sensitivity to social environment investigated simultaneously. Fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Prounis GS,Ophir AG

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Arrestin 1 and 2 are highly expressed proteins involved in the desensitization of G protein-coupled receptor signaling which also regulate a variety of intracellular signaling pathways. Gene knockout (KO) studies suggest that the two isoforms are not homologous in their effects on baseline and drug-induced behavior;...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Robins MT,Chiang T,Berry JN,Ko MJ,Ha JE,van Rijn RM

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been frequently linked to affective disorders such as anxiety and depression. However, much remains to be understood about the underlying molecular and signaling mechanisms that mediate affective dysfunctions following injury. A lack of consensus in animal studies regarding what the af...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Popovitz J,Mysore SP,Adwanikar H

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been known for decades that the drug nicotine can improve cognitive function, the nature of its effects and the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Nicotine activates nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors (nAChRs) that normally are activated by endogenous ACh, presumably "hijacking" the ch...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Metherate R,Intskirveli I,Kawai HD

更新日期：2012-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscience research over the past few decades has reached a strong consensus that the amygdala plays a key role in emotion processing. However, many questions remain unanswered, especially concerning emotion perception. Based on mnemonic theories of olfactory perception and in light of the highly associative nature ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Li W

更新日期：2014-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony coherence is essential for eusocial insects because it supports the inclusive fitness of colony members. Ants quickly and reliably recognize who belongs to the colony (nestmates) and who is an outsider (non-nestmates) based on chemical recognition cues (cuticular hydrocarbons: CHCs) which as a whole constitute ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Neupert S,Hornung M,Grenwille Millar J,Kleineidam CJ

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00