ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011
Quantitative descriptions of generalized arousal, an elementary function of the vertebrate brain.
Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Diverse Autonomic Nervous System Stress Response Patterns in Childhood Sensory Modulation.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2020Article
- Dual-transmitter systems regulating arousal, attention, learning and memory.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Review
- Estrogenic suppression of binge-like eating elicited by cyclic food restriction and frustrative-nonreward stress in female rats.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
- Estrogens, androgens and generalized behavioral arousal in gonadectomized female and male C57BL/6 mice.Physiology & behavior · 2015Article
- Stochastic modeling of mouse motor activity under deep brain stimulation: the extraction of arousal information.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Temporally-patterned deep brain stimulation in a mouse model of multiple traumatic brain injury.Behavioural brain research · 2014Article
- Interoception and drug addiction.Neuropharmacology · 2014Review
- How pleasant sounds promote and annoying sounds impede health: a cognitive approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
- Putting desire on a budget: dopamine and energy expenditure, reconciling reward and resources.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2012Article
- Quantification of behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011Article
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Abstract
We review a concept of the most primitive, fundamental function of the vertebrate CNS, generalized arousal (GA). Three independent lines of evidence indicate the existence of GA: statistical, genetic, and mechanistic. Here we ask, is this concept amenable to quantitative analysis? Answering in the affirmative, four quantitative approaches have proven useful: (i) factor analysis, (ii) information theory, (iii) deterministic chaos, and (iv) application of a Gaussian equation. It strikes us that, to date, not just one but at least four different quantitative approaches seem necessary for describing different aspects of scientific work on GA.
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