Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Aragona, Brandon James
Author's Email Address	aragona@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-07122004-131539
Title	Dopamine regulation of social attachment
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Zuoxin Wang Committee Chair Friedrich K. Stephan Committee Member Mark Licht Committee Member Michael Meredith Committee Member Thomas A. Houpt Committee Member
Keywords	Monogamy Neuroscience Pair Bonds
Date of Defense	2004-06-28
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In this Dissertation, I detail how dopamine within the nucleus accumbens regulates social attachment. I first describe our animal model for social attachment, the monogamous prairie vole, and our experimental methods. I then present two studies assessing the manner in which extracellular dopamine regulates pair bond formation and maintenance in the prairie vole. Next, I describe the intracellular regulation of this behavior. These studies are followed by a detailed comparison of dopamine neuroanatomy between the monogamous prairie vole and a closely related but non-monogamous species of vole. Finally, I provide a general discussion of these findings and related them to dopamine regulation of other behaviors.
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