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| JOSEPH THOMAS CURTISSummaryAffiliation: Oklahoma State University Country: USA Publications
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Female prairie vole mate-choice is affected by the males' birth litter compositionJ Thomas Curtis
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK 74107, USA
Physiol Behav 101:93-100. 2010..These results suggest that some aspect of the perinatal experience of prairie vole pups from single sex litters can influence social interactions later in life...- Chronic metals ingestion by prairie voles produces sex-specific deficits in social behavior: an animal model of autismJ Thomas Curtis
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 W 17th Street, Tulsa, OK 74107, USA
Behav Brain Res 213:42-9. 2010..These results suggest that metals exposure may contribute to the development of autism, possibly by interacting with central dopamine function, and support the use of prairie voles as a model organism in which to study autism... - Amphetamine effects in microtine rodents: a comparative study using monogamous and promiscuous vole speciesJ T Curtis
Program for Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Neuroscience 148:857-66. 2007..These results support suggestions that social attachment and substance abuse share a common neural substrate... 
Dopamine and monogamyJ Thomas Curtis
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, 209 Copeland Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Brain Res 1126:76-90. 2006..Finally, we describe possible interactions between social bonding and substance abuse...- Dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin receptor binding in the medial prefrontal cortex of monogamous and promiscuous volesMichael D Smeltzer
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306-1270, USA
Neurosci Lett 394:146-51. 2006..Differences in D(1)- and D(2)-like receptor binding between species are discussed in terms of how they might modulate cortical activity and subsequent DA release in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc)... - Ventral tegmental area involvement in pair bonding in male prairie volesJ Thomas Curtis
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Physiol Behav 86:338-46. 2005..These results confirm a role for the VTA in partner preference formation in monogamous voles and extend the list of neurochemicals important in pair bonding to include glutamate and GABA... - Nucleus accumbens dopamine differentially mediates the formation and maintenance of monogamous pair bondsBrandon J Aragona
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 1270, USA
Nat Neurosci 9:133-9. 2006..Thus, neuroplastic reorganization of the nucleus accumbens dopamine system is responsible for the enduring nature of monogamous pair bonding. Finally, we show that this system may also contribute to species-specific social organization... - A critical role for nucleus accumbens dopamine in partner-preference formation in male prairie volesBrandon J Aragona
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 1270, USA
J Neurosci 23:3483-90. 2003..Together, our data support the hypothesis that NAcc DA is critical for pair-bond formation in male prairie voles... - Neuronal activation in the caudal brainstem associated with mating by volesJ Thomas Curtis
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, 32306 1270, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Neurosci Lett 341:115-8. 2003..These results suggest that both GN and NTS comprise different functional components of mating circuitry and may contribute to pair bonding in monogamous voles... - Species differences in anxiety-related responses in male prairie and meadow voles: the effects of social isolationJennifer R Stowe
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Physiol Behav 86:369-78. 2005..Together, these data indicate a neural circuit involved in mediating anxiety-associated behavior in voles, and that the functioning of this circuit is influenced by social environment differently between social and non-social species... - Forebrain c-fos expression under conditions conducive to pair bonding in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)J Thomas Curtis
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Florida State University, 209 Copeland Avenue, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Physiol Behav 80:95-101. 2003..We suggest that areas that show evidence of fos expression after sufficient time for pair bonding to occur may be important in the formation of associations between the partner and mating stimuli... - Behavioral and neurochemical investigation of circadian time-place learning in the ratBrandon J Aragona
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306 1270, USA
J Biol Rhythms 17:330-44. 2002..Together, the data suggest that rats can learn the time-place discrimination under proper experimental conditions and that dopamine may play a role in the expression of this behavior...
Research Grants
- Mid-Brain Modulation of Social AttachmentJoseph Curtis; Fiscal Year: 2007..The results of these studies will further our understanding of the brain circuitry involved in social attachment, and thus provide insights into the causes of a variety of human ailments. ..