Behavioral neuroscience of psychological pain

MR Papini, PN Fuchs, C Torres - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Reward loss and addiction: Opportunities for cross-pollination

LA Ortega, JL Solano, C Torres, MR Papini - … Biochemistry and Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

A genetic model of impulsivity, vulnerability to drug abuse and schizophrenia-relevant symptoms with translational potential: the roman high-vs. low-avoidance rats

O Giorgi, MG Corda… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Dorsomedial striatum lesions affect adjustment to reward uncertainty, but not to reward devaluation or omission

C Torres, AC Glueck, SE Conrad, I Morón, MR Papini - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Anti-anxiety self-medication in rats: oral consumption of chlordiazepoxide and ethanol after reward devaluation

L Manzo, R Donaire, M Sabariego, MR Papini… - Behavioural brain …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Anti-anxiety self-medication induced by incentive loss in rats

L Manzo, MJ Gómez, JE Callejas-Aguilera… - Physiology & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ethanol can be used to ameliorate negative emotion in anxiety-inducing situations. Two
experiments tested whether rats would increase preference for ethanol immediately after …

Decreased social interaction in the RHA rat model of schizophrenia-relevant features: Modulation by neonatal handling

D Sampedro-Viana, T Cañete, F Sanna, B Soley… - Behavioural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Roman-Low (RLA) and High-Avoidance (RHA) rat strains have been
bidirectionally selected and bred, respectively, for extremely poor vs. rapid acquisition of the …

The influence of dopamine autoreceptors on temperament and addiction risk

DH Zald - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
As a major regulator of dopamine (DA), DA autoreceptors (DA ARs) exert substantial
influence over DA-mediated behaviors. This paper reviews the physiological and behavioral …

Diversity of adjustments to reward downshifts in vertebrates

MR Papini - International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2014 - escholarship.org
This review focuses on reward-schedule effects, a family of learning phenomena involving
surprising devaluations in reward quality or quantity (as in incentive contrast), and reward …

Consummatory successive negative and anticipatory contrast effects in inbred Roman rats

MJ Gómez, MD Escarabajal, L de la Torre… - Physiology & …, 2009 - Elsevier
Three experiments were designed to study the performance of female inbred Roman High-
(RHA-I) and Low-(RLA-I) Avoidance rats in a consummatory task in which successive …