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Anders Ågmo is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their scholarly work spans several fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Their research interests concentrate notably on neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, sexual function and dysfunction studies, hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, hormonal and reproductive studies, stress responses and cortisol, sexuality, behavior, and technology, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ågmo include Xi Chu, Elisa Ventura-Aquino, Ellen Laan, Enrique Hernández-Arteaga, and Eelke M.S. Snoeren.

Their scholarly contributions have appeared in multiple publication venues, particularly:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • International Journal of Impotence Research
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • The Journal of Sex Research

Selected recent papers authored by Anders Ågmo illustrate the focus on sexual motivation and behavior:

  • "Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?" (2022) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "The Sexual Incentive Motivation Model and Its Clinical Applications" (2022) in The Journal of Sex Research
  • "Rapid changes in sociosexual behaviors around transition to and from behavioral estrus, in female rats housed in a seminatural environment" (2020) in Behavioural Processes
  • "Rat ultrasonic vocalizations and novelty-induced social and non-social investigation behavior in a seminatural environment" (2021) in Physiology & Behavior
  • "Seminatural environments for rodent behavioral testing: a representative design improving animal welfare and enhancing replicability" (2023) in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Male rat sexual behavior.

    Anders Ågmo

  • Reinforcing properties of ejaculation in the male rat: Role of opioids and dopamine.

    Anders Ågmo;Roxanne Berenfeld

  • Sexual motivation--an inquiry into events determining the occurrence of sexual behavior

    Anders Ågmo

  • Manipulation of the oxytocin system alters social behavior and attraction in pair-bonding primates, Callithrix penicillata

    Adam S. Smith;Anders Ågmo;Andrew K. Birnie;Jeffrey A. French

  • Has dopamine a physiological role in the control of sexual behavior? A critical review of the evidence.

    Raúl G Paredes;Anders Ågmo

  • Preclinical models of sexual desire: conceptual and behavioral analyses.

    Anders Ågmo;Anne Lene Turi;Ellinor Ellingsen;Helge Kaspersen

  • Unconditioned sexual incentive motivation in the male Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus).

    Anders Ågmo

  • Olfactory-mediated parasite recognition and avoidance: linking genes to behavior

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris;Anders Ågmo;Donald W. Pfaff

  • GABA and behavior: the role of receptor subtypes.

    Raul G. Paredes;Anders Ågmo

  • Sexual reinforcement is blocked by infusion of naloxone into the medial preoptic area.

    Anders Ågmo;Mónica Gómez

  • The role of the estrogen receptor alpha in the medial amygdala and ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus in social recognition, anxiety and aggression.

    Thierry Spiteri;Sergei Musatov;Sergei Musatov;Sonoko Ogawa;Ana Ribeiro

  • Reward and reinforcement produced by drinking sucrose: Two processes that may depend on different neurotransmitters

    Anders Ågmo;Adriana Galvan;Blanca Talamantes

  • Opioids and sexual behavior in the male rat.

    Anders Agmo;Raúl Paredes

  • The role of the estrogen receptor α in the medial preoptic area in sexual incentive motivation, proceptivity and receptivity, anxiety, and wheel running in female rats.

    Thierry Spiteri;Sonoko Ogawa;Sergei Musatov;Donald W. Pfaff

  • Intraaccumbens injections of substance P, morphine and amphetamine: effects on conditioned place preference and behavioral activity

    S. Schildein;A. Ågmo;J.P. Huston;R.K.W. Schwarting

  • Inadvertent social information and the avoidance of parasitized male mice: A role for oxytocin

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris;Anders Ågmo;W. John Braun

  • Estrogen-Induced Sexual Incentive Motivation, Proceptivity and Receptivity Depend on a Functional Estrogen Receptor α in the Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus but Not in the Amygdala

    Thierry Spiteri;Sergei Musatov;Sonoko Ogawa;Ana Ribeiro

  • Impaired discrimination of and aversion to parasitized male odors by female oxytocin knockout mice

    M. Kavaliers;Douglas D. Colwell;E. Choleris;E. Choleris;A. Agmo

  • Sexual-incentive motivation and paced sexual behavior in female rats after treatment with drugs modifying dopaminergic neurotransmission.

    Ellinor Ellingsen;Anders Ågmo

  • Infusions of naloxone into the medial preoptic area, ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, and amygdala block conditioned place preference induced by paced mating behavior

    S Patricia García-Horsman;Anders Agmo;Raúl G Paredes

  • Stereospecific actions of baclofen on sociosexual behavior, locomotor activity and motor execution.

    Raul Paredes;Anders Agmo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University

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