Facts and Misconceptions about 2D:4D, Social and Risk Preferences.

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：:Inbred Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats express inhibited temperament, increased sensitivity to stress, and exaggerated expressions of avoidance. A long-standing observation for lever press escape/avoidance learning in rats is the duration of the warning signal (WS) determines whether avoidance is expressed over escape. Outbre...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Servatius RJ,Avcu P,Ko N,Jiao X,Beck KD,Minor TR,Pang KC

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that striatal cAMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) regulates sensitivity to psychostimulants. To test the cell-specificity of this hypothesis we examined the effects of a dominant-negative CREB protein variant expressed in dopamine receptor D1 (D1R) neurons on cocaine-induced behaviors. A tra...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bilbao A,Rieker C,Cannella N,Parlato R,Golda S,Piechota M,Korostynski M,Engblom D,Przewlocki R,Schütz G,Spanagel R,Parkitna JR

更新日期：2014-06-11 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：: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：:Salsolinol, a tetrahydroisoquinoline present in the human and rat brains, is the condensation product of dopamine and acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol. Previous evidence obtained in vivo links salsolinol with the mesolimbic dopaminergic (DA) system: salsolinol is self-administered into the posterior of th...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Xie G,Krnjević K,Ye JH

更新日期：2013-05-24 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：:Psychiatric disorders are multifactorial diseases with etiology that may involve genetic factors, early life environment and stressful life events. The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia is based on a wealth of data on increased vulnerability in individuals exposed to insults during the perinatal period. M...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Girardi CE,Zanta NC,Suchecki D

更新日期：2014-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although habituation is possibly the simplest form of learning, we still do not fully understand the neurobiological basis of habituation in any organism. To advance the goal of a comprehensive understanding of habituation, we have studied long-term habituation (LTH) of the gill-withdrawal reflex (GWR) in the marine s...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Esdin J,Pearce K,Glanzman DL

更新日期：2010-11-29 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：: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：: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：:Clinical and experimental studies suggest possible risks associated with the repeated administration of benzodiazepines (BZDs) during the prenatal or early postnatal period on further development and behavior. In the present study, we assess short- and long-term effects of early exposure to clonazepam (CZP) on cogniti...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mikulecká A,Subrt M,Stuchlík A,Kubová H

更新日期：2014-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Once acquired, a fearful memory can persist for a lifetime. Although learned fear can be extinguished, extinction memories are fragile. The resilience of fear memories to extinction may contribute to the maintenance of disorders of fear and anxiety, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As such, considerabl...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Giustino TF,Maren S

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Women are twice as likely as men to develop major depression. The brain mechanisms underlying this sex disparity are not clear. Disruption of the glutamate-glutamine cycle has been implicated in psychiatric disturbances. This study identifies sex-based impairments in the glutamate-glutamine cycle involving...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Rappeneau V,Blaker A,Petro JR,Yamamoto BK,Shimamoto A

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing brain is vulnerable to social defeat during the juvenile period. As complements of human studies, animal models of social defeat provide a straightforward approach to investigating the functional and neurobiological consequences of social defeats. Taking advantage of agonist behavior and social defeat i...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Yu WC,Liu CY,Lai WS

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic or persistent fatigue is a common, debilitating symptom of several diseases. Persistent fatigue has been associated with low-grade inflammation in several models of fatigue, including cancer-related fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. However, it is unclear how low-grade inflammation leads to the experience ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lacourt TE,Vichaya EG,Chiu GS,Dantzer R,Heijnen CJ

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that exposure to violent video games increases aggression, whereas exposure to prosocial video games can reduce aggressive behavior. However, little is known about the neural correlates of these behavioral effects. This work is the first to investigate the electrophysiological features of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Liu Y,Teng Z,Lan H,Zhang X,Yao D

更新日期：2015-07-24 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：: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：: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：: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 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：:Using a recently developed alternative assay procedure to measure hormone levels from hair samples, we examined the relationships between testosterone, cortisol, 2D:4D ratio, overconfidence and risk taking. A total of 162 (53 male) participants provided a 3 cm sample of hair, a scanned image of their right and left ha...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ronay R,van der Meij L,Oostrom JK,Pollet TV

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis is a powerful paradigm to study how orientation behavior is driven by sensory stimulation. Drosophila larvae navigate odor gradients by controlling the duration of their runs and the direction of their turns. Straight runs and wide-amplitude turns represent two extremes of a behavioral continuum. Here we es...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gomez-Marin A,Louis M

更新日期：2014-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making is an ethologically adaptive construct that is impaired in multiple psychiatric disorders. Activity within the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system has been traditionally associated with decision-making. The endocannabinoid system through its actions on inhibitory and excitatory synapses modulates dopamin...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hernandez G,Cheer JF

更新日期：2015-12-17 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：: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：:Reduction of mu activity within the EEG is an indicator of cognitive empathy and can be generated in response to visual depictions of others in pain. The current study tested whether this brain response can be modulated by an auditory and a chemosensory context. Participants observed pictures of painful and non-painfu...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hoenen M,Lübke KT,Pause BM

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol is a widely used and abused substance with numerous negative consequences for human health and safety. Historically, alcohol's widespread, non-specific neurobiological effects have made it a challenge to study in humans. Therefore, model organisms are a critical tool for unraveling the mechanisms of alcohol ac...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chvilicek MM,Titos I,Rothenfluh A

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00