ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
Changes in Stereotypies: Effects over Time and over Generations.
Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Stereotyped behaviors: behavioral markers of brain dysfunction and welfare impairment in animals.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- A Multimodal Approach to Treatment and Management of Rumination Syndrome in a California Sea Lion (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Do stereotypies help or harm? Exploring the link between cortisol level and abnormal behaviours in animals: a review.Frontiers in zoology · 2025Review
- Environmental enrichment for laboratory rats and mice: endocrine, physiological, and behavioral benefits of meeting rodents' biological needs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Early-life enrichment in American mink (Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2025Article
- Effects of Social Group Housing on the Behavioral and Physiological Responses of Captive Sub-Adult Giant Pandas.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Adult Ossabaw Pigs Prefer Fermented Sorghum Tea over Isocaloric Sweetened Water.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
Stereotypies comprise a wide range of repeated and apparently functionless behaviors that develop in individuals whose neural condition or environment results in poor welfare. While stereotypies are an indicator of poor welfare at the time of occurrence, they may have various consequences. Environmental enrichment modifies causal factors and reduces the occurrence of stereotypies, providing evidence that stereotypies are an indicator of poor welfare. However, stereotypy occurrence and consequences change over time. Furthermore, there are complex direct and epigenetic effects when mother mammals that are kept in negative conditions do or do not show stereotypies. It is proposed that, when trying to deal with challenging situations, stereotypies might initially help animals to cope. After further time in the conditions, the performance of the stereotypy may impair brain function and change brain connections, neurophysiology and eventually neuroanatomy. It is possible that reported neuroanatomical changes are an effect of the stereotypy rather than a cause.
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