Neurophysiological correlates of stereotypic behaviour in a model carnivore species

Authors: M. Diez-Leon, L. Kitchenham, R. Duprey, C. D. C. Bailey, E. Choleris, M. Lewis, G. Mason

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: basal ganglia, Dorsal striatum, environmental enrichment, Index Medicus, mink, stereotypic behaviour, Ventral striatum

2019

Natural variation in maternal care and cross-tissue patterns of oxytocin receptor gene methylation in rats

Authors: Annaliese K. Beery, Lisa M. McEwen, Julia L. MacIsaac, Darlene D. Francis, Michael S. Kobor

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anxiety behavior, concordance, cross-tissue, DNA methylation, epigenetic, maternal care, natural variation, oxtr, oxytocin, oxytocin receptor

2016

Cognitive differences in horses performing locomotor versus oral stereotypic behaviour

Authors: Roberts Kirsty, Hemmings Andrew, Moore-Colyer Meriel, Hale Catherine

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, dopamine, equine, habit, stereotypy, striatum

2015

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

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 unpredictable chronic mild stress on depressive-like behavior and on hippocampal A1 and striatal A2A adenosine receptors

Authors: Leonardo M. Crema, Letícia F. Pettenuzzo, Michele Schlabitz, Luisa Diehl, Juliana Hoppe, Régis Mestriner, Daniela Laureano, Christianne Salbego, Carla Dalmaz, Deusa Vendite

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: a1 receptor, a2a receptor, adenosine, binding, chronic stress, depression, hippocampus, striatum, western blotting

2013

Effects of feather pecking phenotype (severe feather peckers, victims and non-peckers) on serotonergic and dopaminergic activity in four brain areas of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Authors: Marjolein S. Kops, Elske N. de Haas, T. Bas Rodenburg, Esther D. Ellen, Gerdien A. H. Korte-Bouws, Berend Olivier, O. Güntürkün, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, S. Mechiel Korte

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: feather pecking behavior, laying hens, monoamines, ocd, thalamopallial circuit

2013

Enkephalin and dynorphin mRNA expression are associated with resilience or vulnerability to chronic social defeat stress

Authors: Patrick Bérubé, Sylvie Laforest, Seema Bhatnagar, Guy Drolet

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: accumbens, amygdala, coping, endorphin, opioids

2013

The neurobiology of repetitive behavior: …and men

Authors: Marieke Langen, Sarah Durston, Martien J. H. Kas, Herman van Engeland, Wouter G. Staal

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: autism, basal ganglia, corticostriatal circuitry, huntington, neurodevelopmental disorders, ocd, parkinson, repetitive behavior, stereotypy, striatum, tourette

2011

The neurobiology of repetitive behavior: Of mice…

Authors: Marieke Langen, Martien J. H. Kas, Wouter G. Staal, Herman van Engeland, Sarah Durston

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: basal ganglia, corticostriatal circuitry, neurodevelopmental disorders, repetitive behavior, stereotypy, striatum

2011

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