Joseph P. Garner

TL;DR: It is concluded that nesting material does not alter thermal preferences for 30 °C when thermotaxis is possible, indicating thermot axis as the primary mode of behavioral thermoregulation and nesting material may be a solution to the mismatch between laboratory T a and mouse thermal preferences.

TL;DR: A monkey model of naturally occurring low sociality is developed and identified arginine vasopressin in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a key marker of group differences in monkey sociality, suggesting that AVP and its signaling pathway warrant consideration in future research studies investigating new targets for diagnostics and drug development in ASD.

TL;DR: An apparatus that uses radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology to facilitate long-term automated monitoring of the behavior of mice in socially or structurally complex cage environments and can be used to quantify validated endophenotypes or biomarkers of these disorders using rodent models is developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the responses of Japanese quail during four tests of fearfulness were investigated and it was found that latency to extend the head into the emergence arena was poorly correlated on two consecutive days (partial r =.19, n =46, P =.29), but the number of times the birds extended their heads into the arena was much more reliable.

TL;DR: Testing whether juvenile LS and HS monkeys differed as infants in their ability to process social information, and whether infant social abilities predicted later social classification, suggests an early capacity to process important social information may account for differences in rhesus monkeys’ motivation and competence to establish and maintain social relationships later in life.