Psychobiology Laboratory

Readings

Week 1

Introduction

Week 2

İyilikci O, Aydın E, Canbeyli R. (2009). Blue but not red light stimulation in the dark has antidepressant effect in behavioral despair. Behavioral Brain Research.27(6), 395-401.

Week 3

Yilmaz A, Aksoy A, Canbeyli R. (2004). A single day of constant light (L/L) provides immunity to behavioral despair in female rats maintained on an L/D cycle. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 28(8), 1261-5.

Schulz D, Aksoy A, Canbeyli R. (2008). Behavioral despair is differentially affected by the length and timing of photic stimulation in the dark phase of an L/D cycle. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 32(5):1257-62

Week 4

Tataroglu O, Aksoy A, Yilmaz A, Canbeyli R. (2004). Effect of lesioning the suprachiasmatic nuclei on behavioral despair in rats. Brain Res. 1001(1-2), 118-24.

Aksoy A, Schulz D, Yilmaz A, Canbeyli R.(2004). Seasonal variability in behavioral despair in female rats. Int J Neurosci, 114(12), 1513-20

Week 5

Van Praag H, Kempermann G, Gage FH. (2000). Neural consequences of environmental enrichment. Nat. Rev. Neurosci, 1(3), 191-8.

Week 6

Turek, FW, Dugovic, C, & Zee, PC. (2001). Current understanding of the circadian clock and the clinical implications for neurological disorders. Archives of Neurology, 58, 1781-1787.

Yilmaz A, Schulz D, Aksoy A, Canbeyli R. (2002). Prolonged effect of an anesthetic dose of ketamine on behavioral despair. Pharmacol Biochem Behav, 71, 341-4.

Larry J, Siever MD. (2008). Neurobiology of Aggression and Violence. Am J Psychiatry, 165, 429–442