Feeding and Behavioral Activation in Infant Rats
- 13 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 205 (4402) , 206-209
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.451591
Abstract
Three-day-old rats that were separated from their mothers and deprived of food were found to be capable of feeding either from small puddles of milk or when milk was infused into the front of their mouths. Such feeding was accompanied by a dramatic increase in behavioral activity and only occurred in a warm environment. These data demonstrate that neural systems for ingestive behavior are present at birth and suggest the existence of feeding-related arousal or motivational systems.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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