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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Being strangled, or “choked,” by a sexual partner has emerged as a prevalent, often wanted and consensual sexual behavior among adolescent and young adult women, yet the neurological consequences of repeated exposure to this behavior are unknown.
Megan E. Huibregtse +9 more
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An elevated plus-maze in mixed reality for studying human anxiety-related behavior
BMC Biology, 2017 Background A dearth of laboratory tests to study actual human approach-avoidance behavior has complicated translational research on anxiety. The elevated plus-maze (EPM) is the gold standard to assess approach-avoidance behavior in rodents. Methods Here,
Sarah V. Biedermann +10 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2014 Background: Recent findings suggest that a strong negative social emotion (i.e., shame) increases YMSM’s sexual risk-taking. Unchangeable shame (e.g., desire for other men) might undermine (moderate) the link between knowledge and self-efficacy or ...
Mina ePark +5 more
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, 2023 AbstractWe provide a conceptual primer for sexual selection and conflict, mating systems, and socio-sexual behaviors and patterns among animals, largely with mammalian and cetacean examples. The important roles of mate choice are discussed (including female choice) and the occasional fluidity of sexual roles.
Bernd Würsig +2 more
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Stress, sex, and motivated behaviors [PDF]
Journal of Neuroscience Research, 2016 Stress is a major risk factor for development of psychiatric disorders such as depression and development of substance use disorder. Although there are important sex differences in the prevalence of these disorders, most preclinical models used to study stress‐induced disorders have used males only.
Laman‐Maharg, Abigail +1 more
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Sperm Numbers as a Paternity Guard in a Wild Bird
Cells, 2022 Sperm competition is thought to impose strong selection on males to produce competitive ejaculates to outcompete rival males under competitive mating conditions.
Melissah Rowe +6 more
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Systematic Review of ED-based Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Research
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015 Introduction: Assessment reactivity may be a factor in the modest results of brief interventions for substance use in the emergency department (ED). The presence of assessment reactivity in studies of interventions for intimate partner violence (IPV ...
Esther K. Choo, +5 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Microglia are brain-resident immune cells that play a critical role in synaptic pruning and circuit fine-tuning during development. In the adult brain, microglia actively survey their local environment and mobilize inflammatory responses to signs of ...
Olivia Sullivan +2 more
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Sex, Drugs, and…behavior Analysis? [PDF]
Behavior Analysis in Practice, 2013 Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a stereotypic picture of behavior analysis in practice before reading onward. If you are even remotely familiar with applied behavior analysis, you likely pictured a child sitting knee to knee with a therapist who is holding reinforcers with some academic-related task nearby. Alternatively, you may have imagined
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 Sex differences in brain structure in children with disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) remain poorly understood. This study examined sex differences in gray matter volume in children with DBD in a priori regions-of-interest implicated in the ...
Karim Ibrahim +6 more
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