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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It is well-established that exposure to emotionally laden events initiates secretion of the
arousal-related hormone epinephrine in the periphery. These neuroendocrine changes and …

Anxiety-related behaviors were evaluated across five tests in a sample of 277 rats from a
genetically heterogeneous stock (N/Nih-HS rats), derived from an eight-way cross of inbred …

Abstract Changes in the processing of emotional information are key features of affective
disorders. Neuropsychological tests based on emotional faces or words are used to detect …

Las cepas de ratas Roman de alta y baja evitación difieren en respuesta de sobresalto
potenciada por miedo y en condicionamiento clásico aversivo. Las sublíneas suizas de …