Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior

by Allan V. Kalueff, Justin L. La Porte, Carisa L. Bergner

Overview

Grooming is among the most evolutionary ancient and highly represented behaviours in many animal species. It represents a significant proportion of an animal's total activity and between 30-50% of their waking hours. Recent research has demonstrated that grooming is regulated by specific brain circuits and is sensitive to stress, as well as to pharmacologic compounds and genetic manipulation, making it ideal for modelling affective disorders that arise as a function of stressful environments, such as stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. Over a series of 12 chapters that introduce and explicate the field of grooming research and its significance for the human and animal brain, this book covers the breadth of grooming animal models while simultaneously providing sufficient depth in introducing the concepts and translational approaches to grooming research. Written primarily for graduates and researchers within the neuroscientific community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521116381
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/20/2010
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Allan V. Kalueff is professor of neuroscience in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical School. He publishes actively on models of drug-drug and drug-receptor interactions, theories of brain disorders and their therapy, and complex interplay between cognitive, motivational and genetic bases of animal behavior.

Carisa L. Bergner is a researcher in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical School. Her research currently involves mouse and zebrafish models of stress and depression.

Justin L. La Porte holds a position at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. His research employs behavioral pharmacology and molecular genetics approaches to elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms of psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, with a specific focus on the role of serotonin transporter.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vii

Preface xi

1 Grooming, sequencing, and beyond: how it all began M. Frances Stilwell John C. Fentress 1

2 Self-grooming as a form of olfactory communication in meadow voles and prairie voles (Microtus spp.) Michael H. Ferkin Stuart T. Leonard 19

3 Phenotyping and genetics of rodent grooming and barbering: utility for experimental neuroscience research Carisa L. Bergner Amanda N. Smolinsky Brett D. Dufour Justin L. LaPorte Peter C. Hart Rupert J. Egan Allan V. Kalueff 46

4 Social play, social grooming, and the regulation of social relationships Sergio M. Pellis Vivien C. Pellis 66

5 Grooming syntax as a sensitive measure of the effects of subchronic PCP treatment in rats Marie-Claude Audet Sonia Goulet 88

6 Modulatory effects of estrogents on grooming and related behaviors Rachel A. Hill Wah Chin Boon 108

7 Lack of barbering behavior in the phospholipase Cβ1 mutant mouse: a model animal for schizophrenia Hee-Sup Shin Daesoo Kim Hae-Young Koh 131

8 Grooming after cerebellar, basal ganglia, and neocortical lesions Robert Lalonde C. Strazielle 145

9 Striatal implementation of action sequences and more: grooming chains, inhibitory gating, and the relative reward effect Howard Casey Cromwell 156

10 An ethological analysis of barbering behavior Brett D. Dufour Joseph P. Garner 184

11 Should there be a category: "grooming disorders?" Lara J. Hoppe Jonathan Ipser Christine Lochner Kevin G. F. Thomas Dan J. Stein 226

12 Neurobiology of trichotillomania Srinivas Singisetti Sam R. Chamberlain Naomi A. Fineberg 252

Index 271

Editorial Reviews

"Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior does contain solid contributions that should be of obvious interest to psychologists working in the areas of neuropsychology and neurophysiology. It is readily apparent that grooming-related behaviors intersect with my own field, comparative psychology, in various ways. the book reveals interesting links shared among grooming behavior, biological factors, and neurological disorders. Though the book is aimed at researchers already working on animal grooming and its possible links to neuropsychological disorders, it will also be of interest to comparative psychologists."
Michael J. Boisvert, PsycCRITIQUES

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