Sentences with phrase «different behavioral tests»

Not exact matches

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

«The results are novel, as this sensitive and comprehensive testing has revealed how prenatal and early postnatal immune activation may regulate core behavioral signs associated with ASD and certain other developmental disorders through changes in signal flow between different structural components of behavior - driving neural circuits,» said Bolshakov.

They also conducted behavioral experiments on fish from the different zones to test their responses to food and habitat competition.

He has also been working with neonate pine snakes in a variety of behavioral experiments, including simple maze tests to track migration and dispersal responses to different snakes» scents.

Newborns» cortisol levels were measured during and after neurobehavioral exams (involving behavioral responses to different stimuli, reflex testing, and observation) conducted seven times over the first month of life.

After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.

Next the team gave the mice a battery of behavioral tests that required them to poke their nose at panels in their enclosure to indicate which of three panels was a different color than the other two.

«We provided critical feedback, via beta testing of the EnerCage system, on how to maximize the utility of the system for different behavioral applications.

We will test our hypothesis by applying different mathematical techniques, including dimensionality reduction, state space analyses, and neural network modeling, on our behavioral and neural datasets.

Yet different paradigms may require different treatment time courses: for example, in the thermal pain tests with a hotplate, the first behavioral effects on an acute pain response were observed after 10 days of diet treatment.

Answer: This can be a few different things - your veterinarian will want to run some tests on her but the 2 most common reasons are allergies and behavioral reasons.

A study from 1996 [4], where four groups of dogs were tested on different sources of protein, concluded that a high protein diet is beneficial for dogs specifically when treating behavioral problems.

The purpose of this study was to test Manassis» proposal (Child - parent relations: Attachment and anxiety disorders, 255 — 272, 2001) that attachment patterns (secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized) may relate to different types of anxiety symptoms, and that behavioral inhibition may moderate these relations.