El ÚLTIMO NÚMERO de *Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience* tiene una sección especial sobre «Preclinical animal models and assays of neuropsychiatric disorders«.
Para l@s colegas que trabajan con *modelos animales* puede resultar de interés el WORKSHOP“Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” organizado por The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
El Dr. Michael Beran, editor entrante del Journal of Comparative Psychology, tiene como objetivo promover sólidos artículos teóricos y experimentales que consideren todos los aspectos de la psicología desde una perspectiva comparada.
Les compartimos información sobre la convocatoria realizada por la revista NEUROTOXICOLOGY AND TERATOLOGY para su SPECIAL ISSUE «EFFECTS OF STRESS EXPOSURE DURING DEVELOPMENT ON NEUROBEHAVIORAL AND NEUROENDOCRINE FUNCTION”.
Stress, which can be defined as an actual or perceived threat to homeostasis, is a ubiquitous factor in modern societies. Stress exposure can adversely impact subsequent neurobehavioral and neuroendocrine functioning, especially when exposure occurs when the brain is developing (i.e., from the fetal period through adolescence). Such negative effects may result from stress alone as the primary developmental insult or from interactions of stress with other kinds of insults such as drugs or environmental toxicants. Importantly, the mechanisms underlying stress-mediated developmental perturbations are not yet fully understood. For example, increased glucocorticoid release is widely thought to mediate at least some of the adverse effects of stressful experiences, especially when the stress is chronic. However, stress gives rise to numerous other responses at the neurophysiological, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, and epigenetic levels, and in many cases, the role of these responses has been understudied. Although we usually think about those stressors that are unique to a particular individual, recent events remind us that some stressors such as natural disasters, wars, or pandemics can induce both physical and psychological stress that can impact millions of people around the world, including infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Given the timeliness of this topic, Neurotoxicology and Teratology is organizing a Special Issue on the theme of “Effects of Stress Exposure during Development on Neurobehavioral and Neuroendocrine Function.” This Special Issue, which will be co-edited by Drs. Jerrold Meyer, Gregg Stanwood, and Sonya Sobrian, is aimed at advancing our understanding of how stressful events perturb developmental trajectories, including characterization of such perturbations, as well as exploratory studies into their underlying mechanisms.
Submissions may include:
Primary data driven reports
Critical review papers
Prospective/retrospective human studies
Empirical studies using models of acute or chronic stress in laboratory animals
The following are examples of relevant topics for this Special Issue:
Delineating windows of vulnerability to stress during prenatal and early postnatal development
Influences of stress on subsequent child emotional and/or cognitive development
Long-lasting neurobehavioral effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Models of developmental stress exposure in laboratory animals: Relevance for human clinical studies
Sex differences in the effects of developmental stress exposure
Transgenerational effects of stress exposure (human or animal studies)
Studies of developmental stress exposure involving natural events such as war, environmental disasters, or pandemics
Biological (e.g., neurobiological, neuroendocrine, neuroimmune, or epigenetic) mechanisms that mediate the long-lasting effects of developmental stress exposure
Interactions among drug and environmental chemical exposures and developmental stress
Pertinent gene-environmental stress interactions
All submissions to this Special Issue will be fully peer-reviewed, and because Neurotoxicology and Teratology is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE, EMBiology, ETOH, Elsevier BIOBASE, MEDLINE®, Science Citation Index, and Scopus, its contents will be available through typical search engines of the medical literature (e.g., PubMed). The Special Issue will also be circulated to all subscribers of the journal and be accessible via ScienceDirect. This Special Issue will be in the form of a Virtual Special Issue (VSI), which is an approach to publishing special Issues that allows us to address one of the most common complaints by authors – slow publication speed. With a VSI, accepted manuscripts are published in the first available regular issue, and corresponding authors will receive 50 days free access to the final published version of their manuscript. Thus, authors do not need to wait until all the Special Issue manuscripts are accepted to have their manuscript published. Simultaneously, articles will appear in a VSI section on the Neurotoxicology and Teratology website and on ScienceDirect. To be considered for inclusion in this Special Issue, please submit your manuscript to Neurotoxicology and Teratology by January 31, 2024, via the electronic submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/ntt/default.aspx). Manuscripts should be assigned to the category “VSI: Dev Stress” at the beginning of the submission process, and a cover letter to the Editor should also specify that the submission is targeted for this issue. We hope that you will consider this invitation seriously and submit your best work to this issue. Recent trends in scientific publication indicate that articles that appear in special issues receive a great deal of attention and we hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity. If you have any questions, feel free to contact one of the Co-Editors. We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Thank you.
Special Issue Co-Editors’ Contact Information Jerrold S. Meyer, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences Email: jmeyer@umass.edu Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D. Florida State University School of Medicine Email: gregg.stanwood@med.fsu.edu Sonya K. Sobrian, Ph.D. Howard University School of Medicine Email: ssobrian@howard.edu Neurotoxicology and Teratology Contacts Jerrold S. Meyer, Ph.D., Special Issues Editor; Email: jmeyer@umass.edu
Nos complace informarles que Nicolás Gustavo Calleja (🇦🇷) es el ganador en categoría de pregrado del Premio Charles Darwin año 2023 debido a su trabajo: “Valor asociativo del condicionamiento de miedo: uso de anfibios como modelo de respuesta cardiovascular ante estímulos aversivos”.
El tutor de Nicolás es el Dr. Rubén Muzio (Laboratorio de Biología del Comportamiento del IBYME-CONICET)
¡Felicitaciones!
Francisca Droguett GT de Psicología Experimental y Comparada
Ayer, 03 de abril, falleció la Dra. Alba E. Mustaca, una de las socias fundadoras de la Asociación Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento (AACC) y socia honoraria de la misma en reconocimiento a su trayectoria.
Pionera en la psicología experimental de Argentina, además de ser una de las fundadoras de la AACC en la década del ochenta, fue creadora y titular de las asignaturas Psicología del Aprendizaje y Análisis y Modificación de la Conducta en la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Alba Mustaca fue una de las más productivas y reconocidas investigadoras latinoamericanas en el área de las ciencias del comportamiento, con más de 200 publicaciones en revistas científicas y contribuyendo a áreas tan diversas como la psicología experimental y comparada, la investigación clínica y la psicología del desarrollo.
Desde su rol en el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET) fundó y dirigió durante más de veinte años el Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Aplicada (PSEA), equipo desde el que se formaron numeros@s colegas en ciencias del comportamiento, much@s de l@s cuales tienen hoy un rol destacado en la AACC y en la región.
Fiel a su espíritu entusiasta, Alba Mustaca se mantuvo activa hasta sus últimos días como Profesora Titular de la Universidad Abierta Interamericana.
Desde nuestra Red acompañamos a sus familiares, amig@s, discípul@s y colegas en este difícil momento, y alentamos a tod@s a promover su obra como inspiración a las nuevas generaciones interesadas en las ciencias del comportamiento.
El Martes 13/12, a partir de las 9.00hs, un grupo de investigadores/as homenajearemos al Dr. Juan Carlos Molina, investigador de CONICET y docente de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), jubilado recientemente.
El Dr. Molina fue docente de las cátedras de Neurofisiología y Psicofisiología, y de Psicobiología de la Facultad de Psicología de la UNC.
La cita será en el auditorio del Instituto Ferreyra (INIMEC-CONICET-UNC), Friuli 2434, Córdoba Capital.
El Dr. Molina tuvo una larga trayectoria en el campo de la psicobiología del desarrollo, y fue director y vicedirector del INIMEC-CONICET-UNC.
Para esta ocasión hemos organizado una actividad científica con presentaciones de sus doctorandos/as y post-docs. Se destacan presentaciones de la Dra. Yanina Pepino (Univ. de Illinois Urbana-Champaign), el Dr. Gonzalo Urcelay (Univ. of Nottingham, UK) y el Dr. Marcelo López (Charleston Medical Center, USA).