Behavioral and Brain Functions

Featured article: Interaction within the brain regulating the consolidation and extinction of social fear

Social defeat is a critical phenotype of mood disorders, including severe depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, autism and schizophrenia. Social defeat is manifested by symptoms such as social fear, social avoidance and social withdrawal. Overcoming social defeat determines the efficacy of drugs and therapeutic methods on mental disorders. However, the etiology and mechanisms of social defeat remain poorly understood.

This study investigates the time course and brain alterations which lead to the establishment of these fears.

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Content type: Research
| 7 May 2019

Neuroprotective effects of Withania somnifera in BPA induced-cognitive dysfunction and oxidative stress in mice

Authors: Hareram Birla, Chetan Keswani, Sachchida Nand Rai, Saumitra Sen Singh, Walia Zahra, Hagera Dilnashin, Aaina Singh Rathore and Surya Pratap Singh
Content type: Research
| 16 April 2019

Cerebellar activation associated with model-based estimation of tool-use consequences

Authors: Sayako Ueda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Kenichi Ueno, Kang Cheng and Takatsune Kumada
Content type: Review
| 16 April 2019

Studying alcohol use disorder using Drosophila melanogaster in the era of ‘Big Data’

Authors: Gregory L. Engel, Kreager Taber, Elizabeth Vinton and Amanda J. Crocker
Content type: Review
| 25 March 2019

Consequences of multilingualism for neural architecture

Authors: Sayuri Hayakawa and Viorica Marian
Content type: Research
| 25 March 2019

Motor cortex and pain control: exploring the descending relay analgesic pathways and spinal nociceptive neurons in healthy conscious rats

Authors: Patrícia Sanae Souza Lopes, Ana Carolina Pinheiro Campos, Erich Talamoni Fonoff, Luiz Roberto Giorgetti Britto and Rosana Lima Pagano

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Content type: Research
| 29 September 2010

The effects of background white noise on memory performance in inattentive school children

Authors: Göran BW Söderlund, Sverker Sikström, Jan M Loftesnes and Edmund J Sonuga-Barke
Content type: Research
| 7 January 2010

Music listening while you learn: No influence of background music on verbal learning

Authors: Lutz Jäncke and Pascale Sandmann

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Content type: Research
| 9 July 2012

Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety

Authors: Amy Devine, Kayleigh Fawcett, Dénes Szűcs and Ann Dowker
Content type: Review
| 3 March 2009

What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable?

Authors: Katherine A Johnson, Jan R Wiersema and Jonna Kuntsi
Content type: Methodology
| 25 February 2009

Evaluation of animal models of neurobehavioral disorders

Authors: F Josef van der Staay, Saskia S Arndt and Rebecca E Nordquist

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Neurobiology of Addiction

Edited by Clarissa Parker

We are now welcoming manuscripts that seek to elucidate the behavioral and molecular mechanisms underlying the transition from initial drug use, to loss of control over drug-seeking and drug-taking, to withdrawal and subsequent relapse. We aim to represent research from a variety of model organisms with the ultimate goal of assembling a collection of articles that provide a cutting-edge glimpse of the prevailing empirical, theoretical, and technical advances in the field of addiction research.

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A well-established journal in the field of behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, Behavioral and Brain Functions welcomes manuscripts which provide insight into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying behaviour and brain function, or dysfunction. The journal gives priority to manuscripts that combine both neurobiology and behaviour in a non-clinical manner.

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BBF publishes in the following sections:

Attention, learning and behavior: Animal studies, edited by Ashok Kumar
Human studies, edited by Jessica Damoiseaux
Behavioral neurogenetics and epigenetics, edited by Frank Middleton
Cellular and molecular mechanisms, edited by Yogesh Dwivedi
Computational and neural network modeling, edited by Yasser Roudi
Neurobiology of brain disorders, edited by Matthew Sutherland
Neurobiology of addiction, edited by Clarissa Parker

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Featured article: Interaction within the brain regulating the consolidation and extinction of social fear

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Neuroprotective effects of Withania somnifera in BPA induced-cognitive dysfunction and oxidative stress in mice

Cerebellar activation associated with model-based estimation of tool-use consequences

Studying alcohol use disorder using Drosophila melanogaster in the era of ‘Big Data’

Consequences of multilingualism for neural architecture

Motor cortex and pain control: exploring the descending relay analgesic pathways and spinal nociceptive neurons in healthy conscious rats

The effects of background white noise on memory performance in inattentive school children

Music listening while you learn: No influence of background music on verbal learning

Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety

What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable?

Evaluation of animal models of neurobehavioral disorders

Neurobiology of Addiction

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