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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'?
"advance sunrise"/advance activity
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Animals that are most active at dawn and dusk have this type of cycle
crepuscular
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The key circadian hormone melatonin is made in this endocrine tissue
pineal gland
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This refers to any type of environmental cue that synchronizes internal clock or biological rhythm
zeitgeber
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In the absence of any light, mammals will show this type of circadian rhythm
"free running"
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This type of clock is determined by signals outside the organism
exogenous
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What do female meadow voles do in the winter?
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?
- 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)
- 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
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
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
- 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
- OT increases willingness to accept risk when associated with social interaction --> no effect if investor gives money to a "project" instead of a trustee
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Which sex of PV is more sensitive to OT?
Female
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Aggression
- 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
- 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
a value that homeostatic systems will work to achieve that is optimal for the functioning of the organism
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Osmotic Thirst
Body has too much salt -> add water
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Hypovolemia
Body is losing balanced fluids (blood, vomit, diarrhea, sweat) -> add Gatorade
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What hormone regulates water balance?
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?
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?
Another system kicks in to reverse the effects of the manipulation
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Postprandial
right after eating
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Postabsorptive
digestive tract empty, energy stored
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Where is insulin produced?
Beta cells in the pancreas
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Effects of Insulin
- increase glucose absorption and storage as glycogen or fat - decrease blood glucose - decrease glucose secretion
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Effects of Glucagon
- 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?
mobilize glucose from liver/muscle
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Streptozotocin
drug that selectively destroys beta cells, induces diabetes
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Where are there insulin receptors in the brain?
arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY)
- 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
- 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
Leptin (inhibitory)
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Short-term regulators of food intake
Insulin (inhibits) Amylin (inhibits) Ghrelin (stimulates) --> mad by epsilon cells of pancreas
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What hormone peaks just before each meal?
Ghrelin
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What does ghrelin stimulate?
NPY neurons of the ARC and feeding
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What tissue produces leptin?
Adipose (leptin levels are proportional to body fat)
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Amylin
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
field that examines biological rhythms in living organisms and their adaptation to solar (and lunar) related rhythms
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Period
repeating cycle of phenomena over time
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Ultradian
< 24 hours Sleep cycles, feeding
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Circadian
~24 hours sleep/wake
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Infradian
> 24 hour
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Circalunar
~28 days menstrual
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Circannual
~ 1 year mating
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Diurnal
active during the day - ex: humans, horses, squirrels
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Nocturnal
active at night - ex: hamsters, raccoons, owls
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Crepuscular
active at dawn and dusk - ex: deer, rabbits, mosquitos
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Matutinal
dawn only
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Vespertine
dusk only
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Zeitgeber
potent environmental cue that synchronizes internal clock or biological rhythm --> light is the primary zeitgeber among many animals
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Lesioning of the SCN
eliminates circadian organization of physiology and behavior

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