NBB 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Oxytocin, Gravidity And Parity, Preoptic Area

• School: Emory University
• Department: Neuroscience & Behavioral Sci
• Course: NBB 201
• Professor: Rilling James

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Components of rat maternal behavior: nursing, licking and grooming, expressions of affection toward pup, nest building, pup retrieval, they will bite the neck of stray pup and pull it back into nest. Rat maternal behavior: both male rats and nulliparous (has never given birth) female rats avoid and sometimes attack pumps, they find the scent of pups aversive, female rats are (cid:862)p(cid:396)o(cid:373)is(cid:272)uousl(cid:455)(cid:863) maternal immediately after giving birth. If you lesion vta or na, you disrupt maternal behavior systems; they lick and groom their pups more frequently: the medial preoptic area (mpoa) is what specifically links the mesolimbic. Is oxytocin involved in human caregiving? behavior: studies with intranasal neuropeptide administration in men, fathers engaged in play session with their baby for 15 minutes. Csf: ot has a(cid:374)(cid:454)iol(cid:455)ti(cid:272) effe(cid:272)ts, so (cid:449)e"d e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)t these women to, some children are resilient to childhood mistreatment have higher levels of anxiety. A lot of current work is aimed at identifying genes that affect vulnerability.