Stereotypies in dogs are repetitive behavioral patterns that occur always in the same sequence but do not play any role. This altered behavior may thus take over the animal’s life, changing its sleep patterns and eating ...

Background: Chronic, intermittent exposure to psychostimulant drugs results in striatal neuroadaptations leading to an increase in an array of behavioral responses on subsequent challenge days. A brain-specific striatal-enriched ...

Vocal stereotypies have been described in behavioral literature as repetitive responses to any words or sounds, usually maintained by automatic reinforcement, often presented by individuals within the Autism Spectrum ...

Selenium is an element that can modulate the dopaminergic neurotransmission. Studies show that diphenyl diselenide, an organic compound of selenium, has antioxidant activity improves depressive-like behavior and reduce ...

Cocaine is a psychomotor drug known to cause behavioural alterations. This study was conducted to characterize behavioural response to acute cocaine injection (7 mg/kg, ip) in paradoxical sleep deprived (PSD) male rats ...