Scheduled daily mating induces circadian anticipatory activity rhythms in the male rat.

Daily schedules of limited access to food, palatable high calorie snacks, water and salt can induce circadian rhythms of anticipatory locomotor activity in rats and mice. All of these stimuli are rewarding, but whether anticipation can be induced by neural correlates of reward independent of metabol...

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Main Authors: Glenn J Landry, Hanna Opiol, Elliott G Marchant, Ilya Pavlovski, Rhiannon J Mear, Dwayne K Hamson, Ralph E Mistlberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3405034?pdf=render