Adult behavior

In a study conducted during the period 1998-2000 at North American sites, the relationship was studied between methyl mercury blood levels in common loons and behavioral parameters (Evers et al. 2008). Adult behaviors were divided into two... 

Floyd, Mark, Forrest Scogin, Nancy L. McKendree-Smith, Donna L. Floyd and Paul D. Rokke, Cognitive Therapy for Depression A Comparison of Individual Psychotherapy and Bibliotherapy for Depressed Older Adults , Behavior Modification 28 (2004) 297-318... 

Taken together, this body of work demonstrates that adult behavioral responses to social odors are shaped by early olfactory experience. Indeed, heterospecific or artificial odor cues associated with the rearing environment acquire attractive properties that can last into adulthood in many rodent species. Furthermore, early experience with opposite-sex odors appears to be critical for the normal development of appropriate behavioral responses to sexual odors in mice and hamsters. Importantly, the behavioral plasticity observed using these different experimental approaches may all be mediated by a classical conditioning model of olfactory learning. The experience-dependent development of odor preference in rodents therefore provides a powerful model for understanding how the olfactory system recognizes and learns the salience of social odors, a function that is critical for the appropriate expression of reproductive behavior. 

Clinical Global Impression. See adult behavioral rating scale description of the CGI. 

Garman ET, Bagwell DC. 1998. The impact of high school financial curriculum requirements on adult behavior (or how to get an extra year s paycheck). Assoc Financ Counsel Plan Educ Newsletter 16 3. 

Hilakivi LA, Hilakivi I. Increased adult behavioral despair in rats neonatally exposed to desipramine or zimeldine an animal model of depression Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1987 28(3) 367-369. 

Kim, Y. K., Phillips, D. R., Chao, T. and Ehrman, L. (2004). Developmental isolation and subsequent adult behavior of Drosophila paulistorum. VI. Quantitative variation in cuticular hydrocarbons. Behav. Genet., 34, 385-394. 

Although irritability and insomnia are frequent in adults, behavioral disturbances (restlessness, irritability, aggressiveness, and sleep disturbances), seizures, and... 

Given the evidence of perinatal stressors in some patients with schizophreifia, aifimal models have been generated to examine the influence of these factors in adult behavior. These studies demonstrated that aiumals exposed to prenatal viral infections,... 

It was concluded that male hormones might be responsible for the regulation since the activation timing (day 35) closely coincides with the onset of testosterone synthesis and the expression of adult behavior in... 

What s the science that directs us to consider the prenatal environment so important in childhood and adult behavior The evidence and conclusions have been accumulating for more than a decade and form the substance of this book. Some highlights ... 

The most insidious fetal neurotoxin known to us is available as a recreational product in every supermarket in cans and bottles large and small. It is ethyl alcohol (ethanol). In the brain, it acts as a depressant, reducing the activity of nerve cells by acting on neuron membranes to prevent nerve impulses. When it appears to stimulate adult behavior, it s the result of depression of inhibitory neural circuits. 

Others may be opposed to the idea that childhood and adult behavior can be dramatically shaped by what happens in the prenatal environment. But I do think the facts and numbers reviewed in this book tell us otherwise. 

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