The study of animal emotion, as with its human equivalent, can be confusing due to the
complicated and inconsistent use of terminology, and the number of interlinked fields and …

Pain is a common word used to refer to a wide range of physical and mental states sharing
hedonic aversive value. Three types of pain are distinguished in this article: Physical pain …

The selective breeding of Roman high-(RHA) and low-avoidance (RLA) rats for rapid vs
extremely poor acquisition of active avoidance behavior in a shuttle-box has generated two …

The scientific study of animal emotion is an important emerging discipline in subjects
ranging from neuroscience to animal welfare research. In the absence of direct measures of …

The bidirectional selective breeding of Roman high-(RHA) and low-avoidance (RLA) rats for
respectively rapid vs. poor acquisition of active avoidant behavior has generated two …

The dorsomedial striatum (DMS) has been implicated in the acquisition of reward
representations, a proposal leading to the hypothesis that it should play a role in situations …

Paradigms used to study the response to and consequences of exposure to reward loss
have been underutilized in approaches to the psychobiology of substance use disorders …

Abstract The Roman Low-and High-Avoidance rat strains (RLA-I vs RHA-I) have been
bidirectionally selected and bred according to their performance in the two-way active …

Animal models of schizophrenia-relevant symptoms are increasingly important for progress
in our understanding of the neurobiological basis of the disorder and for discovering novel …

Rats increased preference for ethanol after sessions of appetitive extinction, but not after
acquisition (reinforced) sessions (Manzo et al., 2014). Drinking was not influenced by …