• α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH), is a hypothalamic neuropeptide signaling satiation, but it is not known if α-MSH may stimulate dopamine release in a feeding control brain region of the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), during the anticipatory and consummatory phases of feeding behavior. (hal.science)
  • In conclusion, our study showed that α-MSH stimulates dopamine release in the LHA during both the anticipatory and consummatory phases of feeding, decreases food intake and inhibits sucrose intake. (hal.science)
  • Oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptor binding are increased in both the mPOA and the BNST in lactating rats when compared to controls. (wikipedia.org)
  • Appetitive behaviors of female rats - including hops, darts, and solicitations - have been linked to dopamine (DA) transmission in the mPOA. (wikipedia.org)
  • In male rats, the mPOA affects the consummatory phase of sexual behavior, and possibly motivation, with lesions causing a complete loss of copulatory behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aim: To evaluate the effects of tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) on sexual behavior, reproductive parameters, and testicles in adult male rats and to reveal the possible role of ALA administration on these parameters. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • Conclusion: Maternal TSE and/or ALA treatment may impair sexual behavior in adulthood in male rats because of testicular damage caused by oxidative stress during gonadal development. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • Results showed that rats had increased anxiety behaviors during withdrawal. (madinamerica.com)
  • We found that LHA-α-MSH-infused rats stopped eating earlier and consumed less food and sucrose as compared to control and NAc-α-MSH-infused rats. (hal.science)
  • Exposure to food produced a peak of LHA dopamine in both LHA-α-MSH and NAc-α-MSH-infused rats but not in the controls. (hal.science)
  • Given the role of the GABA B system in mediating learning and memory and its specific involvement in CTA learning and consummatory behaviors, combined with the increasing frequency of BAC use in learning, memory and addiction research, we were drawn to investigate the effects of BAC on acquisition and extinction using the CTA paradigm in rats. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Lipid extractions and tandem mass spectrometric analysis were performed on brains from proestrous rats that had experienced one of two mating strategies (paced or standard mating) and two nonmated groups (chamber exposed and home cage controls). (hindawi.com)
  • However, chamber exposed rats had significantly higher levels of these lipids compared to home cage controls and paced mated wherein the hippocampus showed the largest increases. (hindawi.com)
  • Decades of studies on mating behavior in laboratory rats (typically Rattus norvegicus ) provide a wealth of knowledge about developmental and motivational roles of various neurotransmitter systems in sexual differentiation and/or manifestation of reproductive behaviors [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In females, studies have examined the influence of the mPOA on precopulatory and appetitive behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) enhances DA transmission in mesolimbic and nigrostriatal pathways, it has been shown that infusions of ascorbic acid into the mPOA increases appetitive behaviors compared to controls. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other laboratories failed to find BAC-induced changes in appetitive behaviors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The limbic system predominantly controls appropriate responses to stimuli with social, emotional, or motivational salience, which includes innate behaviors such as mating, aggression, and defense. (frontiersin.org)
  • Activation of circuits regulating these innate behaviors begins in the periphery with sensory stimulation (primarily via the olfactory system in rodents), and is then processed in the brain by a set of delineated structures that primarily includes the amygdala and hypothalamus. (frontiersin.org)
  • While a fair amount of these behaviors are enhanced through experiential learning and reinforcement, a number of these behaviors are innate or inborn, meaning that they manifest without prior learning. (frontiersin.org)
  • These innate behaviors include courtship, maternal care, defense (both to conspecific and predator cues) and establishment of social hierarchy, all of which ensure survival of the individual or offspring and propagation of the species. (frontiersin.org)
  • In humans, abnormal development of aspects of innate behavior, most prominently circuits that regulate social behavior, appear to underlie disorders such as autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia that are characterized by inappropriate or altered social interactions. (frontiersin.org)
  • Therefore, in this review we focus primarily on chemosensation in the rodent and how it relates to innate limbic responses to social conspecific cues such as mating, maternal care, and territorial behaviors as well as non-social defensive responses to predator cues. (frontiersin.org)
  • These results support an essential role of the VMHvl in both male and female aggression and reveal the existence of two previously unappreciated subdivisions in the female VMHvl that are involved in distinct social behaviors. (nature.com)
  • An animal's inability to correctly detect or process social or environmental cues results in abnormal social behaviors and increases risk of attack and/or predation. (frontiersin.org)
  • Feeding disorders are commonly treated using behavioral treatment packages that consist of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) and escape extinction. (abainternational.org)
  • Results are expected to replicate previous research on treatment integrity that demonstrates that errors of commission and omission can have a detrimental effect on treatment if the schedule of reinforcement favors inappropriate behavior. (abainternational.org)
  • Experiment 1 differed from 2 by a consummatory response required to obtain reinforcement. (bvsalud.org)
  • Taking together, results demonstrated that instructional control can be abandoned in situations where the programmed contingency do not allow occasional reinforcement, and a history with corresponding instruction generates a smaller proportion of change in comparison to a history with minimal instruction and discrepant instruction. (bvsalud.org)
  • In reinforcement theory , it is argued that human behavior is a result of "contingent consequences" to human actions. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are four types of behavior management: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In behavioral terms, positive means addition, negative means removal, reinforcement is anything that increases a behavior, and punishment is anything that decreases a behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Positive reinforcement is the addition of a stimulus which increases the behavior (like a paycheck). (wikipedia.org)
  • Negative reinforcement is the removal of an aversive stimulus that increases the behavior (like Tylenol removes a headache). (wikipedia.org)
  • If a behavior is no longer contacting reinforcement, it should extinguish. (wikipedia.org)
  • [4] Thus, reinforcement occurs only if there is an observable strengthening in behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • We studied incentive motivation in 18 first-episode psychosis patients from the Cambridge early psychosis service CAMEO and 19 control participants using the Cued Reinforcement Reaction Time Task, which measures motivationally driven behaviour. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We demonstrated the anticipated "reinforcement-related speeding" effect in controls (17 out of 19 control participants responded faster during an "odd-one-out" task in response to a cue that indicated a high likelihood of a large points reward). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this paper we will focus on the symptomatic cluster of loss of control and we will review the main behavioral manifestations, task performances and corresponding putative neurocircuitries related to the RDoC framework. (aba-journal.com)
  • An operant ethanol self-administration paradigm that discriminates between appetitive and consummatory behaviors reveals distinct behavioral phenotypes in commonly used rat strains. (musc.edu)
  • Rules may facilitate the acquisition of new behaviors and at the same time decrease the likelihood of behavioral change across contingency changes. (bvsalud.org)
  • In rodent models, emotional states (e.g., fear, anxiety, and social receptivity) are generally quantified by their behaviors. (frontiersin.org)
  • Seem to have supposed that the types of behavior mediated by it are quite impossible of explanation by any principle of association or habit action. (yorku.ca)
  • William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • According to other theories, emotions are not causal forces but simply syndromes of components, which might include motivation, feeling, behavior, and physiological changes, but no one of these components is the emotion. (alchetron.com)
  • At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. (alchetron.com)
  • Large lesions of the mPOA disrupt the onset of maternal behavior, nest-building, and pup retrieval, with the lateral projections being especially critical. (wikipedia.org)
  • Olfaction is a central sensory modality in rodents as it supports an array of crucial behaviors such as predator avoidance, feeding, reproduction, maternal behavior and social interactions. (bordeaux-neurocampus.fr)
  • Finally, type-1 cannabinoid receptor-dependent inhibition of GABA-ergic release and relapse to reward-associated stimuli is linked to ghrelin and orexin signaling in the lateral hypothalamus-ventral tegmental area-nucleus accumbens network to highlight its pathological potential for food addiction-like behavior. (frontiersin.org)
  • neural activity during the period of consumption might reflect the properties of the reward, how the animal consumes it, and/or the behaviors that precede reward collection (e.g. locomotion). (elifesciences.org)
  • The main symptom clusters are represented by loss of control, craving/withdrawal, and neglect of other areas of life, whereas in a Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) perspective, GD patients exhibit deficits in the domain of "Positive valence systems", particularly in the "Approach motivation" and "Reward learning" constructs, as well as in the "Cognitive systems", primarily in the "Cognitive control" construct. (aba-journal.com)
  • Herein, we will focus on the symptom cluster "loss of control" (i.e., unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop gambling), which appears to be related to deficits in executive functions (namely, diminished response inhibition [11]) and impaired reward-related decision-making [12]. (aba-journal.com)
  • Circuit selectivity in drug versus natural reward seeking behaviors. (musc.edu)
  • In this context, these behaviors are both initiated and regulated by the male in that the male is able to "pace" his interactions with the female, which may engender intrinsic reward, associating the females as a conditioned incentive [ 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The brain includes several distinct dopamine pathways, one of which plays a major role in reward-motivated behavior . (alchetron.com)
  • The NAcc is of interest because of its indication in the reward of natural behaviors, such as exercise, sex, and feeding. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • The Research Seminar Session revealed the current tendency for explanations of behavior to be reduced to physiology, neuroscience, and genetics. (escholarship.org)
  • Internal state controls olfaction through poorly understood mechanisms. (nature.com)
  • The clinical phenotype of this population is characterized by unsuccessful efforts to reduce or stop gambling despite negative outcomes, suggestive of aberrant decision-making mechanisms and faulty inhibitory control of gambling impulses that sustain the chronicity and comorbidities of this clinical syndrome. (aba-journal.com)
  • As might readily be anticipated from the sharpness of the contrast between these two stimulus-response mechanisms, the functions performed by each in mediating adaptive behavior are characteristically distinct. (yorku.ca)
  • To narratively review the available neurobiological data on the mechanisms of central regulation of eating behavior as a rationale to summarize pharmacological strategies for appetite modulation in eating disorders. (consortium-psy.com)
  • The progress in neurobiological understanding of the mechanisms of central regulation of appetite opens opportunities for new pharmacotherapeutic approaches aimed at changing the patterns of eating behavior. (consortium-psy.com)
  • Results indicated three distinct patterns of responding: 1) alternative behavior was never emitted during the DRA component (two participants), 2) only the alternative behavior was emitted during the DRA component (one participant), and 3) both the target and the alternative behaviors were emitted during the DRA component (one participant). (abainternational.org)
  • These findings support the self-determination theory, more specifically on the explanations advanced under the controlled and autonomous motivation factors. (springeropen.com)
  • It is worth noting that SDT differentiates between controlled motivation and autonomous motivation. (springeropen.com)
  • Precopulatory behaviors involve several brain areas, including the mPOA as well as the medial amygdala (MA) and BNST. (wikipedia.org)
  • Localized neuropharmacological glutamate blockade at sites in the medial shell of nucleus accumbens (NAc), by microinjections of the glutamate AMPA antagonist, DNQX, produce either intense appetitive behavior or fearful behavior. (jneurosci.org)
  • By studying knockout mice that lack a particular receptor, researchers can assess that receptor's role in specific aspects of brain functioning and behavior, including responses to alcohol and alcohol consummatory behavior. (beerdelux.com)
  • The MOR system plays a significant role with regard to hedonic eating behavior and reinforces our emotional responses to appetizing foods. (breakthroughwmt.com)
  • Scalable control of mounting and attack by Esr1+ neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus. (nature.com)
  • In addition, the role played by different stressors in the reinstatement of preference for palatable food and food-seeking behavior is also considered in the light of endocannabinoid production, activation of orexin receptors and disinhibition of dopamine neurons. (frontiersin.org)
  • Conversely, electrical stimulation of this area triggers male copulatory behavior, as measured by decreases in the latency to ejaculate. (wikipedia.org)
  • This apparatus allows females to engage and withdraw from males and have some control over the receipt of copulatory stimuli. (hindawi.com)
  • Sternson, S. M. Hypothalamic survival circuits: blueprints for purposive behaviors. (nature.com)
  • The original role of emotions was to motivate adaptive behaviors that in the past would have contributed to the survival of humans. (alchetron.com)
  • Additionally, the mPOA is critical for the onset and expression of parental behavior, as evidenced by increases in the immediate early gene c-fos, in experienced rat mothers or fathers when compared to controls. (wikipedia.org)
  • Functioning as brain region for the regulation of energy homeostasis, the hypothalamus integrates different hormonal and neuronal signals controlling appetite and body weight. (frontiersin.org)
  • Endogenous cannabinoids (eCBs) are involved in the development and regulation of reproductive behaviors. (hindawi.com)
  • We show that excitation at the same site prevents DNQX microinjections from recruiting downstream limbic structures into neurobiological activation, and simultaneously prevents generation of either appetitive or defensive motivated behaviors. (jneurosci.org)
  • Withdrawal from chronic amphetamine produces persistent anxiety-like behavior but temporally-limited reductions in monoamines and neurogenesis in the adult rat dentate gyrus. (madinamerica.com)
  • Endocannabinoids are endogenous lipid neurotransmitters that activate cannabinoid receptors and play a role in regulating motivated behaviors, such as feeding, anxiety, drug seeking, pain, and reproduction [ 4 , 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • It is characterized by persistent and recurrent maladaptive patterns of gambling behavior, leading to impaired functioning [1]. (aba-journal.com)
  • This suggests a way that stimulation of the same pathway can have very different motivational effects on behavior, inducing a drive state (usually thought to be aversive) under one condition and inducing the rewarding state under another. (jneurosci.org)
  • Positive punishment is an imposition of an aversive stimulus to decrease a behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • The hallmark components of the disorder have been proposed to be (a) continued engagement in a behavior despite adverse consequences, (b) diminished self-control over engagement in the behavior, (c) compulsive engagement in the behavior, and (d) an appetitive urge or craving state prior to engaging in the behavior [4,5]. (aba-journal.com)
  • They recommended an interconnected holistic approach which shifts the focus away from the structure of discrete behaviors and toward examining the environment in which the behavior occurs and the consequences produced. (escholarship.org)
  • however, the study is based on an animal model, and the present findings partially reflect the characteristics of human sexual behavior. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • The model of self-regulation has three main aspects of human behavior, which are self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-regulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Placebo) and mode of protection is not higher than that of the following major veins (from atlas of human sexual behavior in with benzodiazepines and antagonists or members of australian masculi- nant singular masculinity and their self-reports were correlated to the stomach, duodenum, and pancreas. (ben.edu)
  • In other words, these symptoms have been considered to be categorically different from other forms of human behavior and experience, whether they occur in healthy persons or patients with other psychiatric disorders. (karger.com)
  • Energy-dense foods are potentially harmful to human health because of their unbalanced contents and capacity to promote overeating behaviors [5, 6]. (breakthroughwmt.com)
  • Our findings suggest that consummatory behavior generates simultaneous theta range activity in the MFC and OFC that encodes the value of consumed fluids, with the MFC having a top-down role in the control of consumption. (elifesciences.org)
  • Hormones and Behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other brain dopamine pathways are involved in motor control and in controlling the release of various hormones. (alchetron.com)
  • In recent years, considerable efforts have been devoted to study neural circuits, and to identify potential factors responsible for the derangement of homeostatic eating toward hedonic eating and addiction-like feeding behavior. (frontiersin.org)
  • The diagnostic criteria for gambling disorder overlap largely with those for the substance use disorders: the main symptom clusters are represented by loss of control, craving/withdrawal, and neglect of other areas of life [6]. (aba-journal.com)
  • Although previous research has evaluated the effects of treatment integrity failures in many areas of applied behavior analysis, the effects of these failures in the area of pediatric feeding disorders remain unknown. (abainternational.org)
  • Eating disorders (EDs) are a group of severely impaired eating behaviors, which include three subgroups: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and ED not otherwise specified (EDNOS). (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • Eating disorders (EDs), which are characterized by severely impaired eating behavior, are one of the most common health problems afflicting female adolescents and young women and have been reported worldwide both in developed countries and emerging economies such as Brazil and China. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • Performed a double-blind, placebo-controlled 50 75%, with return to normal range but serum luteinising hormone are the lupus anticoag- duration of diabetes, bilitation, there is still controversial. (ben.edu)
  • The limbic system of the brain regulates a number of behaviors that are essential for the survival of all vertebrate species including humans. (frontiersin.org)
  • The reptilian brain, oldest with regards to its evolutionary origin, controls survival activities like breathing, heart rate and balance (6). (imotions.com)
  • Results: Maternal TSE caused a significant decrease in the number of intromissions compared to the control group. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • Also in fathers, studies have shown that when they receive ultrasonic or pheromone cues from their mates, their c-fos expression in the mPOA further increased, suggestive that rat paternal behavior is mediated through the mPOA but activated by direct interactions with a mate. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this article we review the current understanding of how limbic circuits regulate sexually dimorphic behaviors and how these circuits are established and shaped during pre- and post-natal development. (frontiersin.org)
  • Psychophysiology views the mind as having a physical substrate, and as it offers tools for mining information about nonconscious and non-reportable processes, it can substantially contribute to our understanding of cognition, emotions and behavior (ibid). (imotions.com)
  • It is a peer-reviewed open-access digital journal that publishes studies on the evolution and development of behavior in all animal species. (escholarship.org)
  • This behavior is seen in studies as an inability to lose weight. (foodaddictionresources.com)
  • These behaviors are regulated and influenced by sensory stimuli such as touch, sound, and, most importantly in rodents, smell. (frontiersin.org)
  • The ability to store and retrieve associations between specific sensory stimuli and behaviorally relevant information is a vital memory function: it allows the organism to adapt its behavior based on prior experience. (bordeaux-neurocampus.fr)
  • Main Outcome Measure: Sexual behavior, changes in puberty parameters, and hormonal and genetic alterations were the outcomes analyzed in this study. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • The mPOA also has a high density of estradiol receptors that, when activated, can cause a male rat to show maternal-type behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • While control females will investigate male odors more than female odors, those with bilateral lesions to the mPOA (MPOA-X) will show no difference in odor preference, but vaginal scent marking and lordosis remained unaffected. (wikipedia.org)
  • As with the locomotor cross-sensitization described above, underlying this behavior are presumably neurochemical alterations in the brain, such as adaptations in DA and perhaps opioid functions. (addictiontalkclub.com)
  • Results support the utility of restructuring meals to include less pause-inducing transitions during meals to produce orderly pause duration across transitions, reduce overall meal duration, and reduce other inappropriate mealtime behavior. (abainternational.org)
  • Results from Phase 2 suggest that participant's behavior in Group IC showed a lower change from Phase 1 in comparison to Group IM and Group ID groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • Similarly, ALA decreased erectile function in sexual behavior by decreasing the number of intromissions and intromission ratio in the ALA group compared to the control group. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • Epigenetic function during heroin self-administration controls future relapse-associated behavior in a cell type-specific manner. (musc.edu)
  • Evidence thus implicates participation of orexins in steroidogenesis, spermatogenesis, transportation and maturation of sperm as well as in the control of penile function. (researchgate.net)
  • The distinction between structural and functional analysis points to a difficulty of integrating facts about behavior with other levels of analysis that requires our attention. (escholarship.org)
  • In addition, TSE and ALA treatment caused an impairment of some consummatory sexual behaviors. (artuklu.edu.tr)
  • Andermann, M. L. & Lowell, B. B. Toward a wiring diagram understanding of appetite control. (nature.com)
  • Are ethnic minority adolescents at risk for problem behavior? (sussex.ac.uk)