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Weakening of the synaptic connections between the OFC and the dorsal striatum in persevering mice reduced their willingness to self-stimulate in the face of a possible foot shock.
There were two conditions: a no activity condition; and an activity condition where the participant could self-stimulate by pressing a keyboard to hear various sounds.
Their behaviour under this condition revealed an intriguing variability: 40% of the mice (termed renouncers) greatly reduced the frequency of lever-pressing when given foot shocks (Fig. 1a), whereas the remaining 60% (perseverers) were willing to receive painful punishment for the opportunity to self-stimulate their dopamine neurons (Fig. 1b).
Stridulatory wing movements of singing orthopterans may generate wind that could self-stimulate wind-sensilla.
This extension of Moisan and Rompré's hypothesis predicts that rats will self-stimulate for direct activation of dopamine neurons (e.g., by optogenetic means [87], [88]).
"If she gets hot and bothered on a date," Dr. Berman said about the daughter, "she can go home and self-stimulate, instead of getting pregnant".
Autistic people "stim" (self-stimulate); neurotypical people fidget.
From - Self Stimulating with King Tuff.
We found that at baseline, AHPs secreted functional Wnt that self-stimulates low-level canonical Wnt signaling.
Although the mechanism of transformation is not clear, a viral protein named tax, which promotes DNA transcription, may be involved in setting up an autocrine (self-stimulating) loop that causes continuous proliferation of infected T cells.
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