Sentences with phrase «behavior studied in the lab»

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

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In this 2012 study, University of North Texas educational psychologist Wendy Middlemiss and her colleagues tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they went through a five - day sleep training program à la crying - it - out in a sleep lab in New ZealanIn this 2012 study, University of North Texas educational psychologist Wendy Middlemiss and her colleagues tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they went through a five - day sleep training program à la crying - it - out in a sleep lab in New Zealanin a sleep lab in New Zealanin New Zealand.

His lab has looked at how the nature of stress in parent - child relationships influences child and family function as well asand has the used longitudinal studies to look at the association between parenting styles and children's emotions and behaviors that may contribute to early mental health issues in children.

Dr. Brian Wansink, a professor of consumer behavior at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, has published a new study in the journal Food Quality and Preference entitled «Ingredient - Based Food Fears and Avoidance: Antecedents and Antidotes.»

Tarantulas reveal intriguing mammal - like behaviors, says a scientist who cares enough to study them (not to mention keep 500 of them alive in his lab)

The Campàs lab is studying several of these questions, including how limbs are built and how mechanical changes in tumors affect the behavior of malignant cells and the growth of the tumor.

(The researchers wanted to study the behavior of the P. morrisi they had collected, but they were killed in the lab by other ants.)

The lab has been particularly active in the development and use of novel behavioral assays that provide a unique approach to the study of drug - behavior interactions.

While some anonymized, lab - based experiments have suggested that religious behavior may increase prosocial qualities like generosity and trustworthiness, few researchers have studied this question in the context of a real community.

Studies about parenting often are biased in the lab because participants give answers that they think are expected of them or are not aware of their own behavior.

«From Brexit, Trump and support for Vladimir Putin in Russia to the nationalist, ultra - conservative government in Poland, studies from our and other labs show that collective narcissism systematically predicts prejudice, aggression and a tendency to interpret innocent behaviors as provocation to the national group,» she says.

The pieces of this experiment, in a basement lab at Cornell University's Clark Hall in Ithaca, N.Y., span more than half of Reppy's 50 - year career studying the behavior of helium cooled to ultra-low temperatures.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Raised for dozens of generations in the lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related behaviors.

«Because the fish are so committed to their role as fathers, we're able in the lab to dissociate their parental behavior — the fanning and the nipping — from behaviors associated with courtship, territory defense and nest defense,» said University of Illinois graduate student Ross DeAngelis, who led the study with psychology professor Justin Rhodes.

«This paper provides a nice bridge between feeding behavior and sleep behavior with just a single molecule,» says Nathan Donelson, a post doctoral fellow in Griffith's lab and one of the study's lead authors.

Funded by NSF, DARPA, and the Office of Naval Research, members of the lab are studying fish schooling behavior and the vertebral columns in sharks and bony fish.

In the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have studied both in the lab and in the wilIn the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have studied both in the lab and in the wilin the lab and in the wilin the wild.

Lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design concludes, «Evoking fear may seem like a good way to get your message across but this study shows that, in fact, the opposite is true — telling the public that a behavior will help them be healthier and happier is actually more effective.»

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

He joined the Polleux lab in 2017 where he studies how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria networks regulate spatiotemporal dynamics of dendritic calcium in the context of synaptic integration, plasticity, circuit function and behavior.

In 2015, Olivova joined the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) as a Max Planck Scholar, where she gained extensive lab experience by studying motor learning behaviors in micIn 2015, Olivova joined the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) as a Max Planck Scholar, where she gained extensive lab experience by studying motor learning behaviors in micin mice.

The lab studies the pathways from sensory input to behavioral output by quantitative analysis of behavior under well - defined conditions, genetic manipulation of animals or individual neuronal cells, and calcium imaging from neurons in living animals.

The goal of the research in the Pawlowski lab is to understand the basis of inheritance in plants by studying the mechanisms governing chromosome behavior and genetic recombination in meiosis.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

One postdoc in Peterson's lab, for example, is using zebrafish to study opioid addiction, trying to identify genes that heighten drug - seeking behavior and thus could be useful targets for helping human addicts.

In the lab Fawzi is now studying how altering amino acid sequences affects FUS behaviors in hopes that it will lead to a clinically useful strategy against ALS and canceIn the lab Fawzi is now studying how altering amino acid sequences affects FUS behaviors in hopes that it will lead to a clinically useful strategy against ALS and cancein hopes that it will lead to a clinically useful strategy against ALS and cancer.

Once you are in the program, you will study anatomy and physiology, terminology, nursing skills, small and large animal diseases, radiology, anesthesiology, parasitology, hematology, clinical skills, lab and exotic animals, birds, and behavior.

In college, she participated in multiple semesters of independent research in her school's pigeon lab studying behavioIn college, she participated in multiple semesters of independent research in her school's pigeon lab studying behavioin multiple semesters of independent research in her school's pigeon lab studying behavioin her school's pigeon lab studying behavior.

In environmental field studies, I have conducted outdoor labs to assess exotic animal behaviors and to assist with their rescue and rehabilitation.

After studying hundreds of couples in a «love lab» located at the University of Washington, Gottman and his colleagues determined how to predict how long couples would stay together, with 94 percent accuracy, just by watching for certain behaviors.

My lab uses diverse methods ranging from social interaction studies in - lab to Big Data studies of social media behaviors.

His efforts resulted in the establishment of Trauma Center, that consist of a well - trained clinical team specializing in the treatment of children and adults with histories of child maltreatment, that applies treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research lab that studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior, mood, and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professional, educators, parent groups, policy makers, and law enforcement personnel.