Meanings of self-grooming depend on an inverted U-shaped function with aversiveness

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17, 591 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.102 Authors: Alberto Fernández-Teruel & Celio Estanislau The relationship between rodent self-grooming and stress and anxiety-like behaviour, and the regulation of such grooming by several emotion-linked brain areas, such as the amygdala–bed nucleus of the stria terminalis–hypothalamus circuit, are among the issues discussed by Kalueff et al. in their recent, excellent
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