A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research

Authors: A. Calapai, M. Berger, M. Niessing, K. Heisig, R. Brockhausen, S. Treue, A. Gail

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation

2017

Associations among within-litter differences in early mothering received and later emotional behaviors, mothering, and cortical tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats

Authors: Christina M. Ragan, Kaitlyn M. Harding, Joseph S. Lonstein

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, maternal behavior, neophobia, tryptophan hydroxylase-2, within-litter

2016

Effect of gender and halothane genotype on cognitive bias and its relationship with fear in pigs

Authors: Ricard Carreras, Laura Arroyo, Eva Mainau, Raquel Peña, Anna Bassols, Antoni Dalmau, Luigi Faucitano, Xavier Manteca, Antonio Velarde

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, fear, gender, halothane genotype, neurotransmitters

2016

Effects of chronic mild stress on behavioral and neurobiological parameters — Role of glucocorticoid

Authors: Jiao Chen, Zhen-zhen Wang, Wei Zuo, Shuai Zhang, Shi-feng Chu, Nai-hong Chen

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: bdnf, chronic mild stress, depression, fkbp5, gap junction, gr

2016

Sex differences and estrous cycle effects on foreground contextual fear conditioning

Authors: Ricardo Cossio, María B. Carreira, Carol E. Vásquez, Gabrielle B. Britton

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: amygdala, bdnf, conditioned fear, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, sex differences

2016

Social Support Modulates Stress-Related Gene Expression in Various Brain Regions of Piglets

Authors: E. Kanitz, T. Hameister, A. Tuchscherer, M. Tuchscherer, B. Puppe

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Keywords: hpa axis, limbic brain regions, mRNA expression, pig, social buffering, social deprivation

2016

Evidence for a link between tail biting and central monoamine metabolism in pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)

Authors: Anna Valros, Pälvi Palander, Mari Heinonen, Camilla Munsterhjelm, Emma Brunberg, Linda Keeling, Petteri Piepponen

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: dopamine, neurotransmission, pig, serotonin, tail-biting

2015

Housing conditions influence cortical and behavioural reactions of sheep in response to videos showing social interactions of different valence

Authors: Sabine Vögeli, Martin Wolf, Beat Wechsler, Lorenz Gygax

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: attentiveness, emotion, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fnirs), mood, sheep, social interaction

2015

Diphenyl diselenide supplemented diet reduces depressive-like behavior in hypothyroid female rats

Authors: Glaecir Roseni Mundstock Dias, Tielle Moraes de Almeida, Jéssie Haigert Sudati, Fernando Dobrachinski, Sandra Pavin, Félix Alexandre Antunes Soares, Cristina Wayne Nogueira, Nilda Berenice Vargas Barbosa

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: depressive-like behavior, diphenyl diselenide, hypothyroidism, methimazole, oxidative stress

2014

The effect of chronic administration of corticosterone on anxiety- and depression-like behavior and the expression of GABA-A receptor alpha-2 subunits in brain structures of low- and high-anxiety rats

Authors: Anna Skórzewska, Małgorzata Lehner, Aleksandra Wisłowska-Stanek, Paweł Krząścik, Andrzej Ziemba, Adam Płaźnik

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, brain structures, chronic corticosterone, depression, gaba-a receptor alpha-2 subunits, individual differences

2014

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