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Affiliative Social Behaviors

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  • Social behaviors that bring animals together
  • Ex: Reproductive, Parental, Bonding
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Aggressive Social Behaviors

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  • Social behaviors that keep animals apart
  • Ex: threat/attack, territorial (aggression in defense of physical area)
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What is Pair-bonding?

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  • An enduring, preferential association between two sexually mature adults
    –> characterized by selective contact, affiliation, & copulation w/ the partner (vs. a conspecific)
    -often involves biparental care of the young
  • Adaptive to help the species survive
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Benefits of Pair Bonding in Humans

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  • Live longer (vs. unpaired counterparts)
  • increased intimacy
    –> inversely correlated with negative psych states (i.e. depressed mood)
    –>positively correlated with immune function, cardiovascular health, and kids’ psych/physical wellbeing
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Prairie Vole Model of Pair Bonding

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  • Socially monogamous rodents that live primarily in the US grasslands (limited food/water may have played a role in the development of their pair bonding)
  • Early Field Studies: using multiple-capture traps, they noticed same pairs repeatedly captured together
  • Pair remains together until one dies and the surviving partner usually does NOT pair w/ new mate
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This social behavior functions to keep individuals together

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Affiliative behavior

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This hormone has been linked to aggressive behavior

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testosterone (androgens)

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Aggression and affiliation brain regions largely overlap, except for this brain region which is involved in aggression

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periaqueductal gray (PAG)

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Oxytocin into this brain region induces pair bonding in prairie vole

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nucleus accumbens (or prefrontal cortex)

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Males are more sensitive to the ability of this hormone to induce pair bonding

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Arginine vasopressin (AVP)

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This social behavior functions to keep individuals apart

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aggressive behavior

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This type of vole does not display pair bonding behavior

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meadow vole

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Pair bonding is induced by this behavior

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mating behavior

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Injecting AVP into the brain region induces pair bonding

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lateral septum (LS)

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This ‘idea’ suggests that testosterone and aggression are tightly linked only during certain times of the lifespan or in certain contexts

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Challenge Hypothesis

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This refers to the property of a system that regulates its internal environment to maintain stable conditions

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homeostasis

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This type or thirst is regulated by angiotensin

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volemic thirst (or hypovolemia)

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This is the key brain region of the feeding circuit

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arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus

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This hormone is a long-term regulator of food intake that comes from adipose tissue

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leptin

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These two hormones are made in the brain and have opposite effects on feeding

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neuropeptide Y (NPY) and melanocycte stimulating hormone (MSH)

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This type of period refers to activities that occur less than 24 hours apart

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ultradian

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This hormone displays a circadian rhythm that is tied to light exposure and not peak activity of animals

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melatonin

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This brain region is the most critical ‘coordinating’ clock

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suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)

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This is the connection directly between the eye and the SCN

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retinohypothalamic tract

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This will happen to the activity of a free-running hamster when pulsed with light late in the ‘subjective night’?

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“advance sunrise”/advance activity

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Animals that are most active at dawn and dusk have this type of cycle

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crepuscular

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The key circadian hormone melatonin is made in this endocrine tissue

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pineal gland

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This refers to any type of environmental cue that synchronizes internal clock or biological rhythm

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zeitgeber

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In the absence of any light, mammals will show this type of circadian rhythm

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“free running”

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This type of clock is determined by signals outside the organism

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exogenous

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What do female meadow voles do in the winter?

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They let their territories that are normally separate overlap to form same-sex groups
- helps with the limited resources and promotes survival

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What aspects of biparental care do male prairie voles exhibit?

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  • Direct: huddling, grooming, contact, retrieving pups
  • Indirect: nest building, food hoarding
  • Paternal behavior towards offspring persists after the birth of subsequent litters
  • Offspring show attachment to the parents through increased vocalization if separated
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Which hormones are involved in social behavior? (BIG 2)

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  • Oxytocin (OT) is associated with increased maternal care
  • Vasopressin (AVP) is associated with increased aggression
    **Act in a paracrine manner on neighboring cells
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Vasopressin Receptor Results in Prairie Voles

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Higher AVP receptors in:
- Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) -> relays neural info relevant to homeostasis
- Ventral Pallidum (VP) -> reward
- Amygdala -> emotion
- Accessor olfactory bulb -> inputs from the vomeronasal organ

Lower AVP receptors in:
- Medial prefronal cortex (mPFC) -> attention, executive function
- Lateral Septum (LS) -> emotion, stress

–>Cohabitation in PV increases # of AVP neurons in BNST that project to LS
–> AVP injection facilitates pair bonding in males
–>V1a receptor in monogamous voles not seen in promiscuous

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Oxytocin Receptor Results in Prairie Voles

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Higher OT receptors in PV:
- Bed nucleus of stria terminalis
- Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
- Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) -> motivation and reward

Lower OT receptors in PV:
- Hypothalamus
- Lateral septum
- Amygdala

–> Injecting OT into the NAcc or mPFC induces pair bonding even w/o mating

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Men with more RS3 repeats

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  • inc. entrepreneurship
  • dec. score on Pair Bonding Scale
  • dec. likely to be married
  • inc. marital crisis/threat
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Intranasal OT effects on gambling

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  • OT increases willingness to accept risk when associated with social interaction
    –> no effect if investor gives money to a “project” instead of a trustee
38
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Which sex of PV is more sensitive to OT?

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Female

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Aggression

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  • Overt behavior with intention to harm another individual
  • Elicited by different stimuli (may be adaptive or maladaptive and varies over the course of lifetime)
  • Many hormones modulate these behaviors such as androgens, estrogen, and serotonin (and their receptors)
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Agnostic Behavior

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  • Aggressive and submissive behaviors elicited in social context

Two ways of looking at them:
- Single continuum (single scale of submissive to aggressive)
- Separate continuum (aggression and submission are on two separate scales of high to low)

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Set point

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a value that homeostatic systems will work to achieve that is optimal for the functioning of the organism

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Osmotic Thirst

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Body has too much salt -> add water

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Hypovolemia

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Body is losing balanced fluids (blood, vomit, diarrhea, sweat) -> add Gatorade

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What hormone regulates water balance?

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Vasopressin = Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
- works in renal tubes to retain water
–> a lack of AVP/ADH causes diabetes insipidus (an overdrinking of water and excessive urination)

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What hormone stimulates drinking during hypovolemia?

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Angiotensin II
–> acts with aldosterone with from zona glomerulosa of adrenal glands

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Why is it hard to study neural/endocrine mechanisms or even a single hormone/neuropeptide?

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Another system kicks in to reverse the effects of the manipulation

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Postprandial

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right after eating

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Postabsorptive

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digestive tract empty, energy stored

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Where is insulin produced?

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Beta cells in the pancreas

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Effects of Insulin

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  • increase glucose absorption and storage as glycogen or fat
  • decrease blood glucose
  • decrease glucose secretion
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Effects of Glucagon

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  • causes liver to convert glycogen to glucose
  • increase blood glucose levels
  • pancreas releases glucagon when -> blood sugar is low and higher insulin levels
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During stress or severe energy expenditure, what do glucocorticoids do?

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mobilize glucose from liver/muscle

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Streptozotocin

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drug that selectively destroys beta cells, induces diabetes

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Where are there insulin receptors in the brain?

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arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus

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Neuropeptide Y (NPY)

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  • Anabolic/Orexigenic effectors: increase appetite and food intake; suppress energy metabolism
  • stimulated by ghrelin
  • inhibited by leptin and insulin
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Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone

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  • Catabolic/Anorexigenic effectors: decrease appetite and food intake, suppress energy metabolism
  • stimulated by leptin (also insulin, amylin, CCK)
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Long-term regulator of food intake

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Leptin (inhibitory)

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Short-term regulators of food intake

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Insulin (inhibits)
Amylin (inhibits)
Ghrelin (stimulates) –> mad by epsilon cells of pancreas

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What hormone peaks just before each meal?

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Ghrelin

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What does ghrelin stimulate?

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NPY neurons of the ARC and feeding

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What tissue produces leptin?

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Adipose (leptin levels are proportional to body fat)

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Amylin

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Peptide hormone secreted from pancreas
- decreases glucose absorption
- decreases glucagon secretion
- promote satiety
- slows gastric emptying and reduces food intake

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Chronobiology

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field that examines biological rhythms in living organisms and their adaptation to solar (and lunar) related rhythms

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Period

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repeating cycle of phenomena over time

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Ultradian

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< 24 hours
Sleep cycles, feeding

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Circadian

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~24 hours
sleep/wake

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Infradian

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> 24 hour

68
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Circalunar

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~28 days
menstrual

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Circannual

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~ 1 year
mating

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Diurnal

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active during the day
- ex: humans, horses, squirrels

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Nocturnal

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active at night
- ex: hamsters, raccoons, owls

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Crepuscular

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active at dawn and dusk
- ex: deer, rabbits, mosquitos

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Matutinal

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dawn only

74
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Vespertine

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dusk only

75
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Zeitgeber

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potent environmental cue that synchronizes internal clock or biological rhythm
–> light is the primary zeitgeber among many animals

76
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Lesioning of the SCN

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eliminates circadian organization of physiology and behavior

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