Pessimistic dairy calves are more vulnerable to pain-induced anhedonia

Pain induces deficits in appreciation of rewards (i.e. anhedonia) and variation in response to pain may be partly explained by individual differences in general expectations (i.e. optimism). Dairy calves are routinely subjected to painful procedures such as hot-iron disbudding. We tested if female H...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Lecorps, Emeline Nogues, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Daniel M. Weary, Angel Abuelo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7673544/?tool=EBI