Chapter title |
Methods for Dissecting Motivation and Related Psychological Processes in Rodents
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Chapter number | 380 |
Book title |
Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation
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Published in |
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/7854_2015_380 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-926933-7, 978-3-31-926935-1
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Authors |
Ryan D. Ward, Ward, Ryan D. |
Editors |
Eleanor H. Simpson, Peter D. Balsam |
Abstract |
Motivational impairments are increasingly recognized as being critical to functional deficits and decreased quality of life in patients diagnosed with psychiatric disease. Accordingly, much preclinical research has focused on identifying psychological and neurobiological processes which underlie motivation . Inferring motivation from changes in overt behavioural responding in animal models, however, is complicated, and care must be taken to ensure that the observed change is accurately characterized as a change in motivation , and not due to some other, task-related process. This chapter discusses current methods for assessing motivation and related psychological processes in rodents. Using an example from work characterizing the motivational impairments in an animal model of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, we highlight the importance of careful and rigorous experimental dissection of motivation and the related psychological processes when characterizing motivational deficits in rodent models . We suggest that such work is critical to the successful translation of preclinical findings to therapeutic benefits for patients. |
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