Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior

Preface; 1. Grooming, sequencing, and beyond: how it all began M. Frances Stilwell and John C. Fentress; 2. Self-grooming as a form of olfactory communication in meadow voles and prairie voles (Microtus spp.) Michael H. Ferkin and Stuart T. Leonard; 3. Phenotyping and genetics of rodent grooming and barbering: utility for experimental neuroscience research Carisa L. Bergner, Amanda N. Smolinsky, Brett D. Dufour, Justin L. LaPorte, Peter C. Hart, Rupert J. Egan and Allan V. Kalueff; 4. Social play, social grooming and the regulation of social relationships Sergio M. Pellis and Vivien C. Pellis; 5. Grooming syntax as a sensitive measure of the effects of subchronic PCP treatment in rats Marie-Claude Audet and Sonia Goulet; 6. Modulatory effects of estrogens on grooming and related behaviours Rachel A. Hill and Wah Chin Boon; 7. Lack of barbering behaviour in the phospholipase C?1 mutant mice, a model animal for schizophrenia Hee-Sup Shin, Daesoo Kim and Hae-Young Koh; 8. Grooming after cerebellar, basal ganglia, and neocortical lesions R. Lalonde and C. Strazielle; 9. Striatal implementation of action sequences and more: grooming chains, inhibitory gating and relative reward effect Howard Casey Cromwell; 10. An ethological analysis of barbering behaviour Brett D. Dufour and Joseph P. Garner; 11. Should there be a category: 'grooming disorders'? Lara J. Hoppe, Jonathan Ipser, Christine Lochner, Kevin G. F. Thomas and Dan J. Stein; 12. Neurobiology of trichotillomania Srinivas Singisetti, Sam R. Chamberlain and Naomi A. Fineberg; Index.