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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"behavioral neuroscience"”.
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Modular, Open-Source Instrumentation for Zebrafish Larvae Research
… factor in biological research, particularly in behavioral neuroscience and genetic engineering, where many widely used tools are proprietary, expensive, and closed by design. This thesis demonstrates that recent advances in desktop 3D printing and free and open-source software have reached a …
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THE BEHAVIORAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE ON THE CONSUMPTION AND HEDONIC EVALUATION OF SUCROSE SOLUTIONS
The overconsumption of highly palatable, calorie dense food and drink is an important component in the etiology of obesity. Caffeine is a psychostimulant that is regularly consumed alongside highly palatable, calorie-dense beverages in the form of soft drinks, coffees, and energy drinks. Caffeine …
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Refinement of the novel preference paradigm for young pigs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Refinement of the novel preference paradigm for young pigs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Gut-brain interactions in food reward
Food choice and preference have been linked to post-ingestive consequences of food consumption. Many ultra-processed foods deliver calories rapidly and are highly rewarding. In literature surrounding substances of abuse, the speed at which a drug reaches the brain affects its abuse potential; this …
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Early Life Circadian Rhythm Disruptions Alters Brain and Behavior in Adulthood
… on executive functioning (i.e., series of behavioral tests to assess anxiety level, spatial memory, and working memory), circadian rhythmicity, and neural complexity in key brain areas. Results suggest that early life circadian disruptions impair executive functioning, and neural complexity …
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Dopamine D1-Like, D2 and D3 Receptor Subtypes in Catalepsy Sensitization and Conditioning in Rats: Implications for Motor Function, Motivation and Learning
The behavioral effects of drugs that act on the brain’s dopamine (DA) system change with repeated exposure to the drug. Antipsychotic drugs, that block DA receptors, produce progressively greater effects on behavior with repeated testing. For example, rats repeatedly treated with a low dose of the …
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Memory Enhances Search Strategies During Odor-Guided Foraging
Odor-guided searches are notoriously difficult due to the sparse and intermittent nature of odor plumes. However, rodents can adaptively modify their search strategy using internal representations of their dynamic environment. This allows for selecting the optimal strategy for making use of complex …
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The role of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in performance of spatial self-ordered response sequences in the marmoset
The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) in primates plays an important role in cognitive control and working memory, but as argued in the Introduction its contribution to those aspects of goal-directed behaviour such as planning and executing spatial response sequences requires further …
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Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development
Adolescence is a time of experimentation and risk taking. Experimentation with drug use during this period can have especially harmful consequences, however, as adolescent-onset substance use is more likely to lead to dependence. Brain regions within the mesocorticolimbic circuit are involved in …
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Effects of Genetics and Sex on Hippocampal Gene Expression and Adolescent Behaviors Following Neonatal Ethanol Exposure in BXD Recombinant Inbred Mice
… sex on differential gene expression changes and behavioral responses in animals exposed to postnatal ethanol.</p> <p>To test this, we examined multiple BXD strains that showed increased susceptibility to ethanol-induced cell death in the hippocampus, multiple BXD strains that were resistant to …
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Eye-Tracking Measures of Attentional Bias In Cocaine Dependent Subjects
… Stroop task) and measure physiological and behavioral reactivity (e.g., heart rate, reaction times). Studies have indicated competition between the higher-order cortical processes (frontal eye-fields, DLPFC) in voluntary eye control (i.e., anti-saccades) and more reflexive saccades driven by …