Editorial: Women in behavioral neuroscience: 2022

• Published in: Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience Vol. 18; p. 1374244
• Main Authors: Maeng, Lisa Y., Fattore, Liana, Gondré-Lewis, Marjorie C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 07.02.2024; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: addiction; Addictions; Addictive behaviors; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloidosis; Animal cognition; Anxiety; Behavior; Behavioral Neuroscience; Cocaine; Cognitive ability; Decision making; Editing; Females; Impulsivity; neurobiology; Neurodegenerative diseases; neurodegenerative disorders; Neurosciences; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Pattern recognition; Polydipsia; Rodents; stress; Transgenic mice; Writing; anxiety; stress; addiction; neurobiology; behavioral neuroscience; neuropsychiatric disorders; neurodegenerative disorders
• ISSN: 1662-5153; 1662-5153
• DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1374244

Authors perform their research in prestigious research institutes and universities located around the world, ranging from the United States (Texas Tech University, Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins University, Louisiana State University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, University of Rhode Island), Spain (Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, University of Almería), and Denmark (University of Copenhagen) to Germany (Philipps-University Marburg) and Belgium (Leuven Brain Institute). DiMarco et al. evaluated a commonly used transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) that is characterized by amyloidosis, APPswe/PS1dE9, to determine whether unintended acute stress effects from behavioral tests with a stress component such as the Morris Water Maze, induce the cognitive deficits observed in these tasks but not in behavioral tests without stress, such as novel object recognition. [...]they subjected transgenic and non-transgenic APPswe/PS1dE9 male and female mice to an added stress component such as exposure to predator odor or forced swim stress prior to delayed match-to-position and 3-choice serial-reaction time tasks. [...]Martín-González et al. used a putative model of compulsivity, namely high-drinker (HD) and low-drinker (LD) animals selected by schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP), to assess the cognitive control and the negative valence system domains in compulsive (HD) rats. The SIP preclinical model proved useful to identify a compulsive vulnerable subpopulation in which to study behavioral and neurochemical alterations of compulsive subjects, thus extending our knowledge of compulsive behavior, a core feature observed in obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction, bulimia and other neuropsychopathological disorders.