Endocrinal and behavioral consequences of chasing stress emulating predatory threat

Behavioral and neurochemical changes following predatory stress in mice.

This article had several objectives. First it aimed at investigating the anxiogenic-like behaviors elicited by unavoidable cat exposure and/or cat odor across nine strains of mice (BALB/c, C57BL/6, C3H, CBA, DBA/2, NMRI, NZB, SJL, Swiss) in a modified version of the free-exploration test. The second objective was to investigate possible neurochemical changes following cat exposure in Swiss mice...

Neurobiological and Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Childhood Traumatic Stress

The developing brain is a remarkably plastic and dynamic organ. Although the basic possibilities of what it has the potential to become appears to be set by genetic codes, the unique configuration that evolves for each human being is created though a complex process of communication with the environment. In the best circumstances, this ensures a maximal fit between the demands of the environmen...

Medical publishing and the threat of predatory journals

You have probably received spam e-mail solicitations from previously unknownpublishers inviting you to submit amanuscript to one of their journals, join an editorial board, or, perhaps, complete an ad hoc peer review of a scholarly manuscript. In fact, if you are like most researchers in the biomedical sciences, you have probably received such e-mails on a daily basis. Most of these spam e-mail...

A Behavioral Analysis of Predatory Lending

Impact of predatory threat on fear extinction in Lewis rats.

Humans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are deficient at extinguishing conditioned fear responses. A study of identical twins concluded that this extinction deficit does not predate trauma but develops as a result of trauma. The present study tested whether the Lewis rat model of PTSD reproduces these features of the human syndrome. Lewis rats were subjected to classical auditory fear...