Aberrant gene expression can contribute to brain and nervous system dysfunction that causes many psychiatric illnesses. Here, we review how transcriptomic approaches have deepened our understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders and how they have to the identification of biomarkers for these disorders, with a focus on...
Simple Summary: Scientific interest in animal welfare was initially driven by popular emotional, ethics and political concerns. It has now become an important societal question and all the stakeholders agree on the necessity to rely on unambiguous scientific evidence for evaluation and making decisions. Animal welfare is defined as a chronic state ...
Desmedt, LucieGeorge, IsabelleMohamed Benkada, AïchaHervé, MaximeAubin, ThierryDerégnaucourt, SébastienLumineau, Sophie
Social influences on vocal development of young birds have been widely studied in oscine songbirds who learn to sing by vocal imitation of conspecifics, mainly male adults. In contrast, vocal development of non-vocal learners such as Galliformes is considered as being under strong genetic influence and independent of the social environment. In this...
Some animals optimize their foraging activity by learning and memorizing food availability, in terms of quantity and quality, and adapt their feeding behaviour accordingly. Here, we investigated whether cuttlefish flexibly adapt their foraging behaviour according to the availability of their preferred prey. In Experiment 1, cuttlefish switched from...
La conscience est une notion polysémique incluant entre autres la conscience de soi (de son corps…), la conscience du milieu qui nous entoure, la conscience de l'autre ou encore la conscience narrative (une sorte de monologue intérieur pouvant s'inscrire dans des temporalités plus étendues)… A cette liste pourrait s'ajouter les consciences attachée...
