ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2013
Tactile stimulation reduces fear in fish.
Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- The zebrafish subcortical social brain as a model for studying social behavior disorders.Disease models & mechanisms · 2019Review
- Tactile stimulation reduces aggressiveness but does not lower stress in a territorial fish.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- An Automated Assay System to Study Novel Tank Induced Anxiety.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- The right touch: Stroking of CT-innervated skin promotes vocal emotion processing.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia-1 is essential for normal hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis function.Human molecular genetics · 2017Article
- Mechanisms of social buffering of fear in zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Emotion Perception from Face, Voice, and Touch: Comparisons and Convergence.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2017Review
- Conspecific injury raises an alarm in medaka.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Being groomed or touched can counter stress and negative affect in mammals. In two experiments we explored whether a similar phenomenon exists in non-mammals like zebrafish. In Experiment 1, we exposed zebrafish to a natural stressor, a chemical alarm signal released by injured conspecifics. Before moving them into an observation tank, one group of fish was washed and then subjected to a water current that served as the tactile stimulus. The other group was simply washed. Fish with tactile treatment demonstrated fewer fear behaviors (e.g., bottom dwelling) and lower cortisol levels than fish without. In Experiment 2, we ascertained a role of somatosensation in these effects. Using a similar paradigm as in Experiment 1, we recorded fear behaviors of intact fish and fish with damaged lateral line hair cells. Relative to the former, the latter benefited less from the tactile stimulus during fear recovery. Together these findings show that tactile stimulation can calm fish and that tactile receptors, evolutionarily older than those present in mammals, contribute to this phenomenon.
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