Animal models of prenatal immune challenge and their contribution to the study of schizophrenia: a systematic review

Prenatal immune challenge (PIC) in pregnant rodents produces offspring with abnormalities in behavior, histology, and Condoms gene expression that are reminiscent of schizophrenia and autism.Based on this, the goal of this article was to review the main contributions of PIC models, especially the one using the viral-mimetic particle polyriboinosini

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Boethius on the Problem of Evil

The problem of evil is one the most important challenges presented to the belief in the existence of an Omnipotent, Omniscient and All-Benevolent God.The toughest side of this problem is that there seems to be an inconsistency between these attributes and the existence of evil.The aforementioned inconsistency is not straightforward, but rather it r

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Post-ejaculatory inhibition of female sexual drive via heterogeneous neuronal ensembles in the medial preoptic area

Male ejaculation acutely suppresses sexual motivation in male mice.In contrast, relatively little is known about how male ejaculation affects sexual motivation and sexual behavior in female mice.How the brain responds to the completion of mating is also unclear.Here, by using a self-paced mating assay, we first demonstrate that female mice show dec

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