Assays for repetitive behaviours and restricted interests in mice include measures of motor stereotypies, repetitive self-grooming and perseverative spatial habits in learning tasks that include ...

especially during the day when mice, naturally nocturnal creatures, would normally be resting. This stress alters behavior in unpredictable ways, which has often made it impossible to tell whether ...

Male Ube3a2X mice displayed significantly more repetitive behaviors, such as excessive grooming, compared to their wild-type counterparts. This increase in stereotyped behavior was not observed in ...

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Body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs, are a set of disorders categorized by self-grooming routines that essentially go awry. These include pulling, picking, biting, or scraping one's hair ...

Liver X receptor beta (LXRβ) shows potential in reducing depression and anxiety by improving neurogenesis, reducing ...

Stimming, short for self-stimulating behaviors or stereotypy, encompasses a range of repetitive movements, behaviors, and sounds, from hand-flapping to repeating certain phrases. It is often used ...

For people with autism, constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain often go along with the social struggles and repetitive ... influence behavior. Specifically, they found that in mice, frequent ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

11, 2024 — Scientists zeroed in on brain circuitry powering the desire of spiny mice to live in large groups, opening the door to a new model for the study of complex social behaviors in ...