Publications by authors named "Joshua D Sensenbaugh"
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- Sickness behaviors, like hunched posture and shivering, can help the body resist infection by promoting fever, which is controlled by signals in the brain.
- In the study, guinea pig pups injected with a substance mimicking infection showed different responses when with their mother compared to being alone in a stressful situation.
- The mother’s presence reduced the pups' sickness behaviors but increased their fever, indicating that social factors can impact both immune responses and behaviors during illness.
Disruption of attachment relations in early life is linked to greater vulnerability to depressive illness at later ages. Evidence suggests this process involves stress-induced activation of central inflammatory factors, though the specific mediators and processes involved are not known. We used a guinea pig model in which effects of maternal separation appear more clearly due to absence of the attachment figure than is the case for other laboratory rodents.
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