Quantifying the Acoustic Startle Response in Mice Using Standard Digital Video.

abstract：:Problematic alcohol drinking and alcohol dependence are an increasing health problem worldwide. Alcohol abuse is responsible for approximately 5% of the total deaths in the world, but addictive consumption of it has a substantial impact on neurological and memory disabilities throughout the population. One of the bett...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mira RG,Lira M,Tapia-Rojas C,Rebolledo DL,Quintanilla RA,Cerpa W

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental enrichment produces protective addiction and depression phenotypes in rats. ΔFosB is a transcription factor that regulates reward in the brain and is induced by psychological stress as well as drugs of abuse. However, the role played by ΔFosB in the protective phenotypes of environmental enrichment has n...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zhang Y,Crofton EJ,Li D,Lobo MK,Fan X,Nestler EJ,Green TA

更新日期：2014-08-29 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：: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：: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：:While several studies have investigated mouse ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) emitted by isolated pups or by males in mating contexts, studies of behavioral contexts other than mating and vocalization categories other than USVs have been limited. By improving our understanding of the vocalizations emitted by mice acro...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Grimsley JM,Sheth S,Vallabh N,Grimsley CA,Bhattal J,Latsko M,Jasnow A,Wenstrup JJ

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Major advances in the past decade have led a better understanding of the pathophysiology of narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) caused by the early loss of hypothalamic hypocretin neurons. Although a role for hypocretin in the regulation of sleep/wakefulness state is widely recognized, other functions, not necessarily rela...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bayard S,Dauvilliers YA

更新日期：2013-05-23 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：:Associative learning can be observed from the neonatal period onward, providing opportunities to examine changes in basic learning and memory abilities. One method that is suitable to study associative learning is classical eyeblink conditioning (EBC) which is dependent on the cerebellum. Extinction learning can be sy...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Konrad C,Adolph D,Herbert JS,Neuhoff L,Mohr C,Jagusch-Poirier J,Seehagen S,Weigelt S,Schneider S

更新日期：2020-08-14 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：:Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have fascinating navigational skills and learning capabilities in the field. To decipher the mechanisms underlying place learning in honeybees, we need paradigms to study place learning of individual honeybees under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we present a novel visual place lear...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheiner R,Frantzmann F,Jäger M,Mitesser O,Helfrich-Förster C,Pauls D

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a high degree of intra-individual variation in how individuals respond to stress. This becomes evident when exploring the development of posttraumatic symptoms or stress-related disorders after exposure to trauma. Whether or not an individual develops posttraumatic symptoms after experiencing a traumatic even...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： van der Werff SJ,van den Berg SM,Pannekoek JN,Elzinga BM,van der Wee NJ

更新日期：2013-05-07 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：: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：: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：:Emotionally arousing experiences and stress influence cognitive processes and vice versa. Understanding the relations and interactions between these three systems forms the core of this study. We tested two inbred mouse strains (BALB/c, C57BL/6J; male; 3-month-old) for glucocorticoid stress system markers (expression ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Brinks V,van der Mark M,de Kloet R,Oitzl M

更新日期：2007-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, it is estimated that nearly 10 million people sustain severe brain injuries leading to hospitalization and/or death every year. Amongst survivors, traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in a wide variety of physical, emotional and cognitive deficits. The most common cognitive deficit associated with TBI is mem...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sebastian V,Diallo A,Ling DS,Serrano PA

更新日期：2013-05-03 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：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：: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：:Adolescent behavior is typified by increased risk-taking, reward- and novelty-seeking, as well as an augmented need for social and environmental stimulation. This behavioral phenotype may result from alterations in outcome valuation or reward learning. In the present set of experiments, we directly compared adult and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Stolyarova A,Izquierdo A

更新日期：2015-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are used extensively in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. The therapeutic benefits of SSRIs typically require several weeks of continuous treatment. Intriguingly, according to clinical reports, symptoms of anxiety may actually increase during the early s...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ravinder S,Pillai AG,Chattarji S

更新日期：2011-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate early and constitutively expressed products of the Homer1 gene regulate the functional assembly of post-synaptic density proteins at glutamatergic synapses to influence excitatory neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity. Earlier studies of Homer1 gene knock-out (KO) mice indicated active, but distinct, rol...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Datko MC,Hu JH,Williams M,Reyes CM,Lominac KD,von Jonquieres G,Klugmann M,Worley PF,Szumlinski KK

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Patients with schizophrenia show neurophysiological and psychological disturbances before the onset of the illness. Mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential, has been shown to be associated with cognitive function. Specifically, duration MMN (dMMN) amplitudes have been indicated to predict progression to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sumiyoshi T,Miyanishi T,Seo T,Higuchi Y

更新日期：2013-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The habenular complex linking forebrain and midbrain structures is subdivided into the medial (mHb) and the lateral nuclei (lHb). The mHb is characterized by the expression of specific nicotinic acetylcholine receptor isoforms and the release of acetylcholine to the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN), the sole output regio...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kobayashi Y,Sano Y,Vannoni E,Goto H,Suzuki H,Oba A,Kawasaki H,Kanba S,Lipp HP,Murphy NP,Wolfer DP,Itohara S

更新日期：2013-03-12 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：:Social interactions are critically important for survival and impact overall-health, but also impose costs on animals, such as exposure to contagious agents. The immune system can play a critical role in modulating social behavior when animals are sick, as has been demonstrated within the context of "sickness behavior...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lopes PC,Carlitz EHD,Kindel M,König B

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported to induce neuropsychological improvements, but the persistence of these effects has been scarcely investigated over long follow ups. Here, the results of a multicenter randomized clinical trial are reported, in which the efficacy of 15 week domain s...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mattioli F,Bellomi F,Stampatori C,Provinciali L,Compagnucci L,Uccelli A,Pardini M,Santuccio G,Fregonese G,Pattini M,Allegri B,Clerici R,Lattuada A,Montomoli C,Corso B,Gallo P,Riccardi A,Ghezzi A,Roscio M,Tola MR,C

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous study, we demonstrated that ethanol preexposure may increase ethanol consumption in both adolescent and adult mice, in a two-bottle choice model. We now questioned if ethanol exposure during adolescence results in changes of consumption pattern using a three-bottle choice procedure, considering drinking-in...

journal_title：Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

authors： Carrara-Nascimento PF,Hoffmann LB,Contó MB,Marcourakis T,Camarini R

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00