In the publication, the researchers describe the influence of an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens and its role
in behavioral flexibility, or the ability to change strategies during a task.
At the same time, chimpanzees enjoy much
greater behavioral flexibility than gorillas, making it easier for them to survive in human - modified landscapes.
The work is the first to show that optogenetic inhibition of the nucleus accumbens shell neurons during reward or error feedback
increases behavioral flexibility.
Trinh, M.A., Kaphzan, H., Wek, R.C., Pierre, P., Cavener, D.R., and Klann, E. (2012) Brain - specific disruption of the eIF2α kinase PERK decreases ATF4 expression and
impairs behavioral flexibility.
«McKay, Lev, and Skeen present a successful, innovative combination of ACT and a schema - based approach to help clients with interpersonal relationship problems gain
more behavioral flexibility and move beyond inflexible patterns of relating.
Using a combination of didactic presentation and experiential exercises, this workshop will introduce participants to the ACT model including the six ACT processes, core concepts like experiential avoidance and fusion, and the role of mindfulness in
promoting behavioral flexibility.
But these environmental fluctuations could have promoted the incremental accumulation of new mental abilities that conferred
greater behavioral flexibility.
In a mirror study, chemotherapy administration in young and elderly mice resulted in a change
in behavioral flexibility and alteration of neuron precursor proliferation in the hippocampal dentate gyrus.
In other cases, they had to look around and figure out that the reward was always on the east arm of the maze, a task that required
the behavioral flexibility of step - by - step learning.
These reports highlight
the behavioral flexibility and intelligence of great apes and indicate how little we actually know about our closest living relatives.
Detailed biochemical and sophisticated imaging experiments are employed to delineate the molecular signaling cascades that couple receptors to the translational apparatus during long - lasting synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, amygdala, cortex, and striatum, and whether these types of translational control are required for memory formation, social behaviors, and
behavioral flexibility.
These circuits contribute importantly to
behavioral flexibility in the face of changes in reward contingencies or reward value.
Increasing brain fog (memory loss), overactive sympathetic nervous system, loss of
behavioral flexibility, and can increase autoimmunity — this can happen even in the perceived fit population.
Traits and habits may change over time, but compared with
the behavioral flexibility of young puppies, an older dog's good habits are as resistant to change as their bad habits.