Low Daytime Light Intensity Disrupts Male Copulatory Behavior, and Upregulates Medial Preoptic Area Steroid Hormone and Dopamine Receptor Expression, in a Diurnal Rodent Model of Seasonal Affective Disorder

Low Daytime Light Intensity Disrupts Male Copulatory Behavior, and Upregulates Medial Preoptic Area Steroid Hormone and Dopamine Receptor Expression, in a Diurnal Rodent Model of Seasonal Affective Disorder

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) involves a number of psychological and behavioral impairments that emerge during the low daytime light intensity associated with winter, but which remit during the high daytime light intensity associated with summer. One symptom frequently reported by SAD patients i...

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Main Authors: Joseph S. Lonstein, Katrina Linning-Duffy, Lily Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
hormones
light
nucleus accumbens
medial preoptic area
seasonal affective disorder
sexual behavior
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00072/full

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