Environmental Enrichment Modulates Drug Addiction and Binge-Like Consumption of Highly Rewarding Substances: A Role for Anxiety and Compulsivity Brain Systems?

abstract：:Corticosteroid hormones, released after stress, are known to influence neuronal activity and produce a wide range of effects upon the brain. They affect cognitive tasks including decision-making. Recently it was shown that systemic injections of corticosterone (CORT) disrupt reward-based decision-making in rats when t...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Koot S,Koukou M,Baars A,Hesseling P,van 't Klooster J,Joëls M,van den Bos R

更新日期：2014-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the cause of psychiatric disorders is a goal of modern neuroscience, and will hopefully lead to the discovery of treatments to either prevent or alleviate the suffering caused by these diseases. One roadblock to attaining this goal is the realization that neuropsychiatric diseases are rarely due to a singl...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Karatsoreos IN

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus coeruleus (LC) is the sole source of noradrenergic projections to the cortex and essential for attention-dependent cognitive processes. In this study we used unilateral optogenetic silencing of the LC in an attentional set-shifting task (ASST) to evaluate the influence of the LC on prefrontal cortex-dependen...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Janitzky K,Lippert MT,Engelhorn A,Tegtmeier J,Goldschmidt J,Heinze HJ,Ohl FW

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecstatic epileptic seizures are a rare but compelling epileptic entity. During the first seconds of these seizures, ecstatic auras provoke feelings of well-being, intense serenity, bliss, and "enhanced self-awareness." They are associated with the impression of time dilation, and can be described as a mystic experienc...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Gschwind M,Picard F

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The article is a perspective on utilization of microorganisms and chemosignals in studying human economic behavior. Research in biological roots of economic development has already confirmed that parasitic pressure influenced the creation and development of cultural norms and institutions. However, other effects of mi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Houdek P

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember to perform intended actions in the future. Although PM deficits are a prominent impairment in schizophrenia, little is still known about the nature of PM in symptomatically remitted patients with schizophrenia. To address this issue, event-related brain potenti...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Chen G,Zhang L,Ding W,Zhou R,Xu P,Lu S,Sun L,Jiang Z,Li H,Li Y,Cui H

更新日期：2015-09-30 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：:People perceive the consequences of their own actions differently to how they perceive other sensory events. A large body of psychology research has shown that people also consistently overrate their own performance relative to others, yet little is known about how these "illusions of superiority" are normally maintai...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wolpe N,Wolpert DM,Rowe JB

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimuli of the environment, like objects, systematically activate the actions they are associated to. These activations occur extremely fast. Nevertheless, behavioral data reveal that, in most cases, these activations are then automatically inhibited, around 100 ms after the occurrence of the stimulus. We thus tested ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Debruille JB,Touzel M,Segal J,Snidal C,Renoult L

更新日期：2019-05-08 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：:Since the discovery of place cells, the hippocampus is thought to be the neural substrate of a cognitive map. The later discovery of head direction cells, grid cells and border cells, as well as of cells with more complex spatial signals, has led to the idea that there is a brain system devoted to providing the animal...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Poucet B,Chaillan F,Truchet B,Save E,Sargolini F,Hok V

更新日期：2015-10-30 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：:The ability to maintain appropriate gaps to objects in one's environment is important when navigating through a three-dimensional world. Previous research has shown that the visual angle subtended by a lead/approaching object and its rate of change are important variables for timing interceptions, collision avoidance,...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hosking SG,Davey CE,Kaiser MK

更新日期：2013-05-21 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：:Background: The intermittent access 2-bottle choice (IA2BC) and drinking in the dark (DID) models were developed for studying rodent binge-like consumption. Traditionally, IA2BC was used with rats and DID with mice. Recently, IA2BC was adapted to study mouse ethanol consumption. However, it is unknown whether DID is s...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Holgate JY,Shariff M,Mu EW,Bartlett S

更新日期：2017-02-22 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：:Distinct manifestations of sexual behavior are conceived as separate phenotypes. Each sexual phenotype is assumed to be associated with a characteristic brain. These notions have justified the phenotyping of heterosexual copulator males based upon their ejaculation's latencies (EL) or frequencies (i.e., cumulative eja...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Trejo-Sánchez I,Pérez-Monter C,Huerta-Pacheco S,Gutiérrez-Ospina G

更新日期：2020-06-26 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：:Affective tactile stimulation plays a key role in the maturation of neural circuits, but the development of brain mechanisms processing touch is poorly understood. We therefore used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain responses to soft brush stroking of both glabrous (palm) and hairy (forearm) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Björnsdotter M,Gordon I,Pelphrey KA,Olausson H,Kaiser MD

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that the isolated retrieval of a consolidated fear memory can induce a labile phase, during which extinction training can prevent the reinstatement, a form of relapse in which fear response to a fear-provoking context returns when a mild shock is presented. However, fear memory retrieval may...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： An X,Yang P,Chen S,Zhang F,Yu D

更新日期：2018-01-08 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：: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：:Extensive evidence indicates that glucocorticoid hormones act in a variety of brain regions to enhance the consolidation of memory of emotionally motivated training experiences. We previously reported that corticosterone, the major glucocorticoid in the rat, administered into the dorsal striatum immediately after inhi...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sánchez-Resendis O,Medina AC,Serafín N,Prado-Alcalá RA,Roozendaal B,Quirarte GL

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A role of the gut microbiota in psychiatric disorders is supported by a growing body of literature. The effects of a probiotic mixture of four bacterial strains were studied in two models of anxiety and depression, naturally stress-sensitive Fischer rats and Long Evans rats subjected to maternal deprivation. Rats chro...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Daugé V,Philippe C,Mariadassou M,Rué O,Martin JC,Rossignol MN,Dourmap N,Svilar L,Tourniaire F,Monnoye M,Jardet D,Bangratz M,Holowacz S,Rabot S,Naudon L

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:How a stimulus impacts spinal cord function depends upon temporal relations. When intermittent noxious stimulation (shock) is applied and the interval between shock pulses is varied (unpredictable), it induces a lasting alteration that inhibits adaptive learning. If the same stimulus is applied in a temporally regular...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lee KH,Huang YJ,Grau JW

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence is a time of unique sensitivity to socially salient stimuli such as social rewards. This period overlaps with the onset of psychopathology such as internalizing and externalizing symptoms. In the current studies, we examined behavioral and neural patterns of dysregulation to social rewards and threats, and...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kwon SJ,Ivory SL,McCormick EM,Telzer EH

更新日期：2019-07-23 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：: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：: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