A5010495726- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Reproductive System and Pregnancy
- Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Boston College
2017-2019
Baldwin Wallace University
2012-2013
Social interactions are shaped by features of the interactants, including age, emotion, sex, and familiarity. Age-specific responses to social affect evident when an adult male rat is presented with a pair unfamiliar conspecifics, one which stressed via two foot shocks other naive treatment. Adult test rats prefer interact juvenile (postnatal day 30, PN30) conspecifics but avoid (PN50) conspecifics. This pattern depends upon insular cortex (IC), anatomically connected nucleus accumbens core...
Familiarity between conspecifics may influence how social affective cues shape behaviors. In a preference test, experimental rats, when given the choice to explore an unfamiliar stressed or naive adult, will avoid interaction with conspecific. To determine if familiarity would interactions conspecifics, male and female test rats underwent 2 tests in isosexual triads where rat was presented naïve target conspecific who were either familiar (cagemate) unfamiliar. Male avoided conspecifics....
Social animals detect the affective states of others and utilize this information to orchestrate appropriate social interactions. behaviors include cooperation, reproductive acts avoiding sick individuals. In a behavioral test in which experimental adult male rats were given choice interact with either naive or stressed conspecifics, demonstrated both approach avoidant towards conspecific, depending upon age conspecific; approached juvenile but avoided adult. Optogenetic inhibition insular...
Social interactions are shaped by features of the interactants including age, emotion, sex and familiarity. Age-specific responses to social affect evident when an adult male rat is presented with a pair unfamiliar conspecifics, one which stressed via 2 footshocks other naïve treatment. Adult test rats prefer interact juvenile (PN30) but avoid (PN50) conspecifics. This pattern depends upon insular cortex (IC) anatomically connected nucleus accumbens core (NAc). The goal this work was...
The etiology of schizophrenia's cognitive symptoms may have its basis in prenatal alterations glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor functioning. Therefore, the current study investigated effects ketamine (an NMDA blocking drug) on both a conditioned taste aversion (CTA) and latent inhibition (LI; model attentional capacity) rat fetuses. We first sought to determine if CTA could be diminished by nonreinforced preexposure CS fetal rats (i.e., LI). injected E18 pregnant Sprague-Dawley...
Abstract Familiarity between conspecifics may influence how social affective cues shape behaviors. In a preference test, experimental rats, when given the choice to explore an unfamiliar stressed or naive adult, will avoid interaction with conspecific. To determine if familiarity would interactions conspecifics, male and female test rats underwent 2 tests in isosexual triads where rat was presented naïve target conspecific who were either familiar (cagemate) unfamiliar. Male avoided...