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The effects of Beta-Endorphin: state change modification

Overview of attention for article published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, January 2015
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Title
The effects of Beta-Endorphin: state change modification
Published in
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/2045-8118-12-3
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Authors

Jan G Veening, Henk P Barendregt

Abstract

Beta-endorphin (β-END) is an opioid neuropeptide which has an important role in the development of hypotheses concerning the non-synaptic or paracrine communication of brain messages. This kind of communication between neurons has been designated volume transmission (VT) to differentiate it clearly from synaptic communication. VT occurs over short as well as long distances via the extracellular space in the brain, as well as via the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flowing through the ventricular spaces inside the brain and the arachnoid space surrounding the central nervous system (CNS). To understand how β-END can have specific behavioral effects, we use the notion behavioral state, inspired by the concept of machine state, coming from Turing (Proc London Math Soc, Series 2,42:230-265, 1937). In section 1.4 the sequential organization of male rat behavior is explained showing that an animal is not free to switch into another state at any given moment. Funneling-constraints restrict the number of possible behavioral transitions in specific phases while at other moments in the sequence the transition to other behavioral states is almost completely open. The effects of β-END on behaviors like food intake and sexual behavior, and the mechanisms involved in reward, meditation and pain control are discussed in detail. The effects on the sequential organization of behavior and on state transitions dominate the description of these effects.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 179 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 14%
Student > Master 19 10%
Lecturer 13 7%
Student > Postgraduate 11 6%
Other 34 18%
Unknown 54 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 19%
Psychology 19 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 9%
Neuroscience 11 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 5%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 62 34%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 December 2023.
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#4,808,766
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
#115
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#63,345
of 361,623 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
#3
of 8 outputs
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