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Juvenile play experiences promote behavioral flexibility in rats. If other early positive experiences, such as tactile stimulation, are given prior to exposure to psychostimulants, the behavioral response to the drug is attenuated. The objective of the present study was to determine if the experience of juvenile play behavior would attenuate the response to nicotine. Two experiments were conducted:...
Juvenile play behavior in rats promotes later behavioral flexibility and appears to do so by modifying the neural systems that regulate the animal's response to unexpected challenges. For example, the experience of play has been shown to prune the dendritic arbor of the cells in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), part of the brain's executive control system. The objective of the present study was...
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