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From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

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Sex differences in anxiety and depression

Drawing on adult rodent models of chronic stress, Drs. Bowman, Frankfurt, and Luine synthesize evidence on sex differences in anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and neural plasticity, with implications for mood disorder vulnerability — Read more.

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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

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From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

Sex differences in anxiety and depression

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nuno sousa

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Sex, social rank, and nicotine co-administration shape cocaine- and cocaethylene-induced reinstatement in monkeys

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Sex Differences in Taste Neophobia and Conditioned Aversion Across Fluid Administration Methods

Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses

Behavioral Endocrinology

Sex, social rank, and nicotine co-administration shape cocaine- and cocaethylene-induced reinstatement in monkeys

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Sex Differences in Taste Neophobia and Conditioned Aversion Across Fluid Administration Methods

Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses

Glutamate transmission in the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens shell is involved in ethanol reinforcement and drinking in rats

Editorial: Enhancing companion animal welfare through advanced behavioral management strategies

I’ve got a friend somewhere: control of social behavior across striatal subregions

From the Lab to the real world: emotions serving morality in dyadic negotiation

Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions

Societal allostatic load under chronic threat: defensive dominance and collective efficacy (Iran as a case example)

The emerging role of ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of perioperative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review

Prefrontal Cortical Deficits are a Putative Susceptibility Factor for PTSD

Premature release of action sequences in adolescent male rats

Effect of impact mechanism and intervention measures on sleep quality of college students addicted to short video: a randomly controlled trial

From Observation to Optimization: Behavioral Metrics that Matter in KPI Based Home Cage Monitoring

Goal-directed actions and habits in head-fixed mice

Emotion Regulation and Processing

Sex, social rank, and nicotine co-administration shape cocaine- and cocaethylene-induced reinstatement in monkeys

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Sex Differences in Taste Neophobia and Conditioned Aversion Across Fluid Administration Methods

Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses

Glutamate transmission in the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens shell is involved in ethanol reinforcement and drinking in rats

Editorial: Enhancing companion animal welfare through advanced behavioral management strategies

I’ve got a friend somewhere: control of social behavior across striatal subregions

From the Lab to the real world: emotions serving morality in dyadic negotiation

Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions

Societal allostatic load under chronic threat: defensive dominance and collective efficacy (Iran as a case example)

The emerging role of ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of perioperative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review

Prefrontal Cortical Deficits are a Putative Susceptibility Factor for PTSD

Premature release of action sequences in adolescent male rats

Effect of impact mechanism and intervention measures on sleep quality of college students addicted to short video: a randomly controlled trial

From Observation to Optimization: Behavioral Metrics that Matter in KPI Based Home Cage Monitoring

Goal-directed actions and habits in head-fixed mice

Learning and Memory

Sex, social rank, and nicotine co-administration shape cocaine- and cocaethylene-induced reinstatement in monkeys

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Sex Differences in Taste Neophobia and Conditioned Aversion Across Fluid Administration Methods

Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses

Glutamate transmission in the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens shell is involved in ethanol reinforcement and drinking in rats

Editorial: Enhancing companion animal welfare through advanced behavioral management strategies

I’ve got a friend somewhere: control of social behavior across striatal subregions

From the Lab to the real world: emotions serving morality in dyadic negotiation

Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions

Societal allostatic load under chronic threat: defensive dominance and collective efficacy (Iran as a case example)

The emerging role of ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of perioperative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review

Prefrontal Cortical Deficits are a Putative Susceptibility Factor for PTSD

Premature release of action sequences in adolescent male rats

Effect of impact mechanism and intervention measures on sleep quality of college students addicted to short video: a randomly controlled trial

From Observation to Optimization: Behavioral Metrics that Matter in KPI Based Home Cage Monitoring

Goal-directed actions and habits in head-fixed mice

Motivation and Reward

Sex, social rank, and nicotine co-administration shape cocaine- and cocaethylene-induced reinstatement in monkeys

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Sex Differences in Taste Neophobia and Conditioned Aversion Across Fluid Administration Methods

Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses

Glutamate transmission in the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens shell is involved in ethanol reinforcement and drinking in rats

Editorial: Enhancing companion animal welfare through advanced behavioral management strategies