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The aim of the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science is to publish original research articles and reviews in the general field of behavioural and brain function. Articles dealing with the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavior are especially welcomed. Multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of t…
Kathrin Janitzky, Olaf Prellwitz, Herbert Schwegler, Yuchio Yanagawa, Thomas Roskoden, 1 1
The synthetic predator odor 2,5-dihydro-2,4,5-trimethylthiazoline (TMT) was used to induce innate fear in male GAD67 mice and behavioral changes were correlated with c-fos mRNA levels as marker for neuronal activation to reveal underlying activated fear circu…
Peter Villavecchia, Mindy J. D. Miserendino
The present study looked at the effects of neonatal isolation, an early life stress experience, in male and female early adolescent rats, an age which is underrepresented in the early stress literature. Four stress-sensitive indices were assessed: weight gain…
Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Stephanie Casey, Youngdeok Kim, Melanie Hart, Reid Norman, Xu Qian
Stress research has gained popularity due to the increased acknowledgement of chronic stress on personal health. With this increased interest, researchers need to assure that the public receives quality, evidence-based solutions. Improvements following a stre…
Nadezhda D. Goncharova, Victor Yu. Marenin, Tamara E. Oganyan
Stress adaptation is fundamental for health, and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) is one of its main mechanisms. Considerable data indicate that arginine vasopressin (AVP) related disturbances of stress adaptation can occur with aging. However, m…
Rosalinda Guevara Guzmán, María Esther Urrutia-Aguilar
The aim of this paper was to analyze the impact of Human Physiology curriculum on depression and academic performance of medical students. Beck instrument was applied before exams’ period to all students who voluntarily participated and the grades gotten in e…
Dong Gyun Ko, Young Bum Eun, Jong Uk Na, Sang-Tae Kim
Oxidative stress has been strongly related with Parkinson disease (PD) and Alzheimer disease pathogenesis. We determined the effects of Lactococcus lactis (LAL) supplementation on the generated loss-of-function mutants of PINK1 B9, an AR-JP-linked gene and A…
Inês Pereira-Figueiredo, Consuelo Sancho, Juan Carro, Dolores E. López, Ricardo Gómez-Nieto, Orlando Castellano
There has been an increasing importance of studies that link sex to stress coping processes. Recently, we reported that male and female Wistar rats responded differently to prenatal stress (PS) under basal conditions. The aim of the present study was to deter…
Lucía Ester Rizo-Martínez, Araceli Sanz-Martin, Miguel Ángel Guevara, Marisela Hernández-González, Olga Inozemtseva, Francisco Abelardo Robles-Aguirre
Child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors can present post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alterations in EEG activity and cognition. The aim of this study was to evaluate EEG correlations in female adolescents with CSA-related PTSD during performance of the Wi…
Masoud Nikfarjam, Mehdi Rabiei, Vahid Donyavi, Amir Mohsen Rahnejat
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disorder which is resistant to the existing treatments and to compensate this defect, it is necessary to design and search for the new treatments. This study aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of the behavioral-c…
Marisela Hernández-González, Enrique Hernández-Arteaga, Mayra Linné Almanza-Sepúlveda, Miguel Ángel Guevara
Working memory is an executive function that is highly dependent on the functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Several studies using food or drink as rewards have demonstrated that rats are capable of performing tasks that involve working memory. Sexual behavi…
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