The impact of ostensibly aversive social stresses on triggering, amplifying and prolonging
intensely rewarding drug taking is an apparent contradiction in need of resolution. Social …

Stress plays a key role in pathogenesis of anxiety and depression. Animal models of these
disorders are widely used in behavioral neuroscience to explore stress-evoked brain …

Stress is a main risk factor that can trigger psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and major
depression. Neurotrophins, such as Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), have been …

High prolactin during pregnancy, which is essential for normal postpartum maternal
behavior, increases neurogenesis in the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricle (SVZ) of …

Psychogenic fever is a stress-related, psychosomatic disease especially seen in young
women. Some patients develop extremely high core body temperature (Tc)(up to 41° C) …

Stress affects core body temperature (T c). Many kinds of stress induce transient,
monophasic hyperthermia, which diminishes gradually if the stressor is terminated. Stronger …

Social stress may precipitate psychopathological disorders in susceptible individuals. The
present experiments were focused on the biology beyond the differential susceptibility to …

The biogenic amines octopamine and tyramine are believed to play a number of important
roles in the behavior of invertebrates including the regulation of motor function. To …

Stress has been associated to changes in eating behaviour and food preferences.
Moreover, psychosocial and socio-economical challenges have been related with …

In anxiety research, the search for models with sufficient clinical predictive validity to support
the translation of animal studies on anxiolytic drugs to clinical research is often challenging …