Publications by authors named "A Iu Dvorzhak"
Social play is pervasive in juvenile mammals, yet it is poorly understood in terms of its underlying brain mechanisms. Specifically, we do not know why young animals are most playful and why most adults cease to social play. Here, we analyze the synaptic mechanisms underlying social play.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe persistence of play after decortication points to a subcortical mechanism of play control. We found that global blockade of the rat periaqueductal gray with either muscimol or lidocaine interfered with ticklishness and play. We recorded vocalizations and neural activity from the periaqueductal gray of young, playful rats during interspecific touch, play, and tickling.
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- NORM contributes to radiation exposure for workers, the public, and the environment, prompting the EURATOM Horizon 2020 RadoNorm project to investigate exposure scenarios and data collection related to NORM across Europe.
- The project aims to better understand the activities involving NORM and associated risks by developing a tiered methodology and tools for standardized data collection, including Excel NORM registers.
- These tools facilitate the identification of NORM-related issues, characterize exposure scenarios, and support regulatory management of NORM processes and natural radiation exposure globally.
Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) are present worldwide and under certain circumstances (e.g., human activities) may give radiation exposure to workers, local public or occasional visitors and non-human biota (NHB) of the surrounding ecosystems.
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