Rat pups are potent reinforcers to the maternal animal: Effects of experience, parity, hormones, and dopamine function

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Psychobiology

• Publication date

  1994-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3758/BF03327079
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Olfactory-based social learning varies as a function of parity in female rats

  1994cited by this paper
• Neurobiology of motivation: double dissociation of two motivational mechanisms mediating opiate reward in drug-naive versus drug-dependent animals.

  1992cited by this paper
• Somatosensory control of the onset and retention of maternal responsiveness in primiparous Sprague-Dawley rats.

  1992cited by this paper
• Mesotelencephalic dopamine system and reproductive behavior in the female rat: effects of ventral tegmental 6-hydroxydopamine lesions on maternal and sexual responsiveness.

  1991cited by this paper
• Effects of cycloheximide on the retention of olfactory learning and maternal experience effects in postpartum rats.

  1991cited by this paper
• The effects of 6-OHDA-induced dopamine depletions in the ventral or dorsal striatum on maternal and sexual behavior in the female rat.

  1991cited by this paper
• MK801, an NMDA antagonist, blocks acquisition of a spatial task but does not block maternal experience effects.

  1991cited by this paper
• The amphetamine conditioned place preference: differential involvement of dopamine receptor subtypes and two dopaminergic terminal areas.

  1991cited by this paper
• The reserpine-sensitive dopamine pool mediates (+)-amphetamine-conditioned reward in the place preference paradigm.

  1990cited by this paper
• Experience-hormone interactions and maternal behavior in rats.

  1990cited by this paper
• Ventral somatosensory determinants of nursing behavior in Norway rats. I. Effects of variations in the quality and quantity of pup stimuli.

  1990cited by this paper
• The tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus: a brain-stem output of the limbic system critical for the conditioned place preferences produced by morphine and amphetamine

  1989cited by this paper
• The Physiology of reproduction

  1988cited by this paper
• Experience with pups sustains maternal responding in postpartum rats.

  1987cited by this paper
• Maternal behavior.

  1986cited by this paper
• Neuroleptics block the positive reinforcing effects of amphetamine but not of morphine as measured by place conditioning.

  1985cited by this paper
• Retention of maternal behavior in nulliparous and primiparous rats: Effects of duration of previous maternal experience.

  1981cited by this paper
• Parturition: Its role in the long term retention of maternal behavior in the rat

  1977cited by this paper
• Long-term effects of pregnancy and parturition upon maternal responsiveness in the rat.

  1975cited by this paper

• Female rats exposed to early life scarcity-adversity are resilient to later life changes in maternal behavior.

  2025cites this paper
• Early maternal touch predicts prosocial behaviour in adolescents: the mediation role of attachment

  2025cites this paper
• Dopamine dynamics underlying maternal motivation and reward

  2025cites this paper
• Nucleus accumbens serotonin 1A receptor expression is altered by female reproduction and regulates postpartum affective and caregiving behaviors

  2025cites this paper
• Nursing is rewarding for lactating rabbit does.

  2025cites this paper
• Neural basis of aggressive behavior toward newborns in Mice: Advances and future Challenges.

  2025cites this paper
• The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: a key node in the control of behavioural states

  2025cites this paper
• Activation of the tail of the ventral tegmental area in response to pup predicting cues in maternal rats

  2025cites this paper
• Evidence for the involvement of a fronto-striatal pathway in the processing of social reward.

  2025cites this paper
• NMDA- and 6-OHDA-induced lesions in the nucleus accumbens differently affect maternal and infanticidal behavior in pup-naïve female and male mice.

  2024cites this paper
• Place conditioning in humans: opportunities for translational research

  2023cites this paper
• Potential mechanisms and modulators of food intake during pregnancy

  2023cites this paper
• The Integration of the Maternal Care with Sleep During the Postpartum Period.

  2023cites this paper
• How social information impacts action in rodents and humans: the role of the prefrontal cortex and its connections.

  2023cites this paper
• What can challenging reproductive contexts tell us about the rat’s maternal behavior?

  2023cites this paper
• Rabbits can be conditioned in a food-induced place preference paradigm.

  2022cites this paper
• Pups and prolactin are rewarding to virgin female and pregnant mice.

  2022influential citation
• Dopamine downregulation in novel rodent models useful for the study of postpartum depression

  2022cites this paper
• A dopaminergic reward prediction error signal shapes maternal behavior in mice.

  2022cites this paper
• Peripartum effects of synthetic oxytocin: The good, the bad, and the unknown.

  2022cites this paper
• Oxytocin interactions with central dopamine and serotonin systems regulate different components of motherhood

  2022cites this paper
• Adolescence and Postpartum: Two Life Periods to Deepen Our Understanding of the Complexity of Female Rat Sexual Behavior

  2022cites this paper
• A reinforcement learning algorithm shapes maternal care in mice

  2022cites this paper
• Neural circuits of social behaviors: innate yet flexible.

  2021cites this paper
• The neurochemistry of social reward during development: What have we learned from rodent models?

  2021cites this paper
• Social modulation of drug use and drug addiction (Invited review )

  2021cites this paper
• Lactation is not required for maintaining maternal care and active coping responses in chronically stressed postpartum rats: Interactions between nursing demand and chronic variable stress.

  2021cites this paper
• The Prolactin Family of Hormones as Regulators of Maternal Mood and Behavior

  2021cites this paper
• Postpartum scarcity-adversity disrupts maternal behavior and induces a hypodopaminergic state in the rat dam and adult female offspring

  2021cites this paper
• Early Pup Removal Leads to Social Dysfunction and Dopamine Deficit in Late Postpartum Rats: Prevention by Social Support

  2021cites this paper
• The social network: Neural control of sex differences in reproductive behaviors, motivation, and response to social isolation

  2021cites this paper
• Behavioral Effects of Early Postpartum Offspring Removal in Rats

  2020cites this paper
• Decreased mesolimbic dopaminergic signaling underlies the waning of maternal caregiving across the postpartum period in rats

  2020cites this paper
• Postpartum changes in affect-related behavior and VTA dopamine neuron activity in rats.

  2020cites this paper
• Microbiota‐gut‐brain axis as a regulator of reward processes

  2020cites this paper
• Adaptations in reward-related behaviors and mesolimbic dopamine function during motherhood and the postpartum period.

  2020cites this paper
• 5-HT2A receptors modulate dopamine D2-mediated maternal effects.

  2019cites this paper
• Becoming a better parent: Mice learn sounds that improve a stereotyped maternal behavior

  2019cites this paper
• Becoming a mother entails anatomical changes in the ventral striatum of the human brain that facilitate its responsiveness to offspring cues.

  2019influential citation
• Conditioned place preferences induced by hearing song outside the breeding season relate to neural dopamine D1 and cannabinoid CB1 receptor gene expression in female European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

  2019cites this paper
• Prenatal Ethanol Exposure Impairs Synaptic Function in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Causes Attention Deficits in Rats

  2019cites this paper
• The expectant social mind: A systematic review of face processing during pregnancy and the effect of depression and anxiety.

  2019cites this paper
• Experience-dependent mechanisms in the regulation of parental care.

  2019cites this paper
• Social modulation of drug use and drug addiction.

  2019cites this paper
• Dopaminergic activity mediates pups' over male preference of postpartum estrous rats.

  2018cites this paper
• All bonds are not alike: A psychoendocrine evaluation of infant attachment

  2018cites this paper
• The maternal reward system in postpartum depression

  2018cites this paper
• High nursing demand reduces depression‐like behavior despite increasing glucocorticoid concentrations and reducing hippocampal neurogenesis in late postpartum rats

  2018cites this paper
• Incentive value of newborn pups relative to juveniles for mother rats raising overlapping litters.

  2018cites this paper
• Decreased environmental complexity during development impairs habituation of reinforcer effectiveness of sensory stimuli

  2018cites this paper
• Behavioral mechanisms underlying the maternal disruptive effect of serotonin 5-HT2A receptor activation in Sprague–Dawley rats

  2018cites this paper
• A behavioral mechanistic investigation of the role of 5‐HT1A receptors in the mediation of rat maternal behavior

  2018cites this paper
• Parents induced‐ conditioned place preference and the neuronal expression of oxytocin and tyrosine hydroxylase in preweanling female pups

  2017cites this paper
• Place preferences associated with pups or cocaine change the expression of D2R, V1aR and OTR in the NAcc and MeA and the levels of plasma AVP, OT, T and E2 in mandarin vole fathers.

  2017cites this paper
• Advances in Neurobiology

  2017cites this paper
• 3.24 – Modern Epigenetics: Potential Mechanisms for Cultural Transmission and Social Learning in Primates

  2017cites this paper
• Sexual Dimorphism of Parental Care: From Genes to Behavior.

  2017cites this paper
• Pup-Associated Conditioned Place Preference Reaction and Maternal Care in Depressive WAG/Rij Rats

  2017influential citation
• Maternal alterations induced by exposure to an unfamiliar home cage in early underfed dams

  2017cites this paper
• Associations Between Environmental Resources and the "Wanting" and "Liking" of Male Song in Female Songbirds.

  2017cites this paper
• The Neurobiology and Genetics of Affiliation and Social Bonding in Animal Models

  2016cites this paper
• Intracerebroventricular Oxytocin Self‐Administration in Female Rats

  2016cites this paper
• The neurobiology of mammalian parenting and the biosocial context of human caregiving.

  2016cites this paper
• Neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of parenting: Dynamic coordination of motivational, affective and cognitive processes.

  2016cites this paper
• Previous and recent maternal experiences modulate pups' incentive value relative to a male without affecting maternal behavior in postpartum estrous rats.

  2016cites this paper
• Contrast Enhancement without Transient Map Expansion for Species-Specific Vocalizations in Core Auditory Cortex during Learning

  2016cites this paper
• Antipsychotic drugs on maternal behavior in rats

  2015cites this paper
• Affective, cognitive, and motivational processes of maternal care.

  2015cites this paper
• Common and divergent psychobiological mechanisms underlying maternal behaviors in non-human and human mammals.

  2015cites this paper
• Behavioural changes in mothers and maternally sensitised female mice

  2015cites this paper
• Toward a Developmental Psychopathology of Personality Disturbance: A Neurobehavioral Dimensional Model

  2015cites this paper
• Histone deacetylase inhibition induces long-lasting changes in maternal behavior and gene expression in female mice.

  2014cites this paper
• Differences in cocaine-induced place preference persistence, locomotion and social behaviors between C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ mice.

  2014cites this paper
• Preoptic Inputs and Mechanisms that Regulate Maternal Responsiveness

  2014cites this paper
• Maternal and affective behaviors of lactating rats reared in overlapping litters.

  2014cites this paper
• Discriminative and affective touch: sensing and feeling.

  2014cites this paper
• The origins of altruism in offspring care.

  2013cites this paper
• New theoretical and experimental approaches on maternal motivation in mammals.

  2013cites this paper
• Role of sensory cues

  2013cites this paper
• Links between breeding readiness, opioid immunolabeling, and the affective state induced by hearing male courtship song in female European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

  2013cites this paper
• A role for maternal physiological state in preserving auditory cortical plasticity for salient infant calls.

  2013cites this paper
• Altered bold fMRI response toward survival-pertinent stimuli in the early postpartum dam

  2013cites this paper
• Do females influence paternal responsiveness in male prairie voles Microtus ochrogaster by increasing the salience of infant odors

  2013cites this paper
• Effectiveness in Humans and Other Animals: A Common Basis for Well-being and Welfare

  2012cites this paper
• Cannabinoid modulation of mother-infant interaction: is it just about milk?

  2012cites this paper
• Behavioral characteristics of pair bonding in the black tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix penicillata).

  2012cites this paper
• Reinforcing properties of pups versus cocaine for fathers and associated central expression of Fos and tyrosine hydroxylase in mandarin voles (Microtus mandarinus).

  2012cites this paper
• Many mouths to feed: the control of food intake during lactation.

  2012cites this paper
• Experience-facilitated improvements in pup retrieval; evidence for an epigenetic effect.

  2012influential citation
• Modeling borderline personality disorder based on the neurobehavioral foundation of major personality traits.

  2012cites this paper
• Hypothalamic interaction with the mesolimbic DA system in the control of the maternal and sexual behaviors in rats.

  2011cites this paper
• Environmental enrichment delays pup-induced maternal behavior in rats.

  2011cites this paper
• Oestrogen‐Independent, Experience‐Induced Maternal Behaviour in Female Mice

  2011cites this paper
• Neurogenetic and experiential processes underlying major personality traits: Implications for modelling personality disorders

  2011cites this paper
• Maternity: neural mechanisms, motivational processes, and physiological adaptations.

  2010cites this paper
• The medial preoptic area is necessary for motivated choice of pup- over cocaine-associated environments by early postpartum rats.

  2010cites this paper
• Mother counts: how effects of environmental contaminants on maternal care could affect the offspring and future generations.

  2010cites this paper
• Behavioral and neuroanatomical substrates contributing to motivation in the postpartum female rat

  2009cites this paper
• The advantage of social living: brain neuropeptides mediate the beneficial consequences of sex and motherhood.

  2009cites this paper
• Genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors in the development of personality disturbance

  2009cites this paper