The Neurobiology of Behavior and Its Applicability for Animal Welfare: A Review

Authors: Genaro A Coria-Avila, James G Pfaus, Agustín Orihuela, Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Nancy José-Pérez, Laura Astrid Hernández, Daniel Mota-Rojas

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: emotions, learning, neurobiology, Panksepp, welfare, well-being

2022

The impact of housing environment color on zebrafish anxiety-like behavioral and physiological (cortisol) responses

Authors: Murilo S de Abreu, Ana CVV Giacomini, Rafael Genario, Bruna E dos Santos, Leticia Marcon, Konstantin A Demin, Allan V Kalueff

Publication/Journal: General Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: anxiety, behavior, color, cortisol, zebrafish

2020

Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

Authors: M Špinka

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: affective functioning, animal welfare, awareness, boredom, inter-individual differences, ontogeny

2019

The neurobiology of mammalian parenting and the biosocial context of human caregiving

Authors: Ruth Feldman

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: neurobiology of attachment, oxytocin, parental brain, parenting behavior

2016

The social neuroscience of human-animal interaction

Authors: Lisa S. Freund, Sandra McCune, Layla Esposito, Nancy R. Gee, Peggy D. McCardle

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: ethics, human-animal bonds

2016

Neuropeptidergic regulation of pair-bonding and stress buffering: Lessons from voles

Authors: Kyle Gobrogge, Zuoxin Wang

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, autism, corticotrophin-releasing hormone, depression, dopamine, drug abuse, nucleus accumbens, paraventricular nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus, passive stress-coping, posterior dorsal medial amygdala, social bonding, stress, vasopressin, ventral tegmental area

2015

Defining and assessing animal pain

Authors: Lynne U. Sneddon, Robert W. Elwood, Shelley A. Adamo, Matthew C. Leach

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal welfare, invertebrates, nociception, pain, vertebrates

2014

Semantic communication in vervet monkeys and other animals

Authors: Marta B. Manser

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal communication, human language, linguistics, representation, semantics

2013

Examining the genetic and neural components of cognitive flexibility using mice

Authors: Jonathan L. Brigman, Elizabeth M. Powell, Guy Mittleman, Jared W. Young

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: executive functioning, in vivo electrophysiology, learning, mouse, reversal learning

2012