Bilde av Huijgens, Patty
Bilde av Huijgens, Patty
Behavioral and Translational Neuroscience patty.t.huijgens@uit.no +4777645307 Tromsø TEO-H5 5.665

Patty Huijgens


Postdoctoral fellow

Job description

Postodoctoral research fellow in Behavioral Neuroscience


  • Patty Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Snoeren :
    Sexual Incentive Motivation
    Neuromethods 2023 DOI
  • Patty Huijgens, Fay Guarraci, Jocelien Olivier, Eelke Snoeren :
    Male rat sexual behavior: Insights from inter-copulatory intervals
    Behavioural Processes 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Patty Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Snoeren :
    Silencing and stimulating the medial amygdala impairs ejaculation but not sexual incentive motivation in male rats
    Behavioural Brain Research 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jan Hegstad, Patty Huijgens, Danielle Houwing, Jocelien Olivier, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Snoeren :
    Female rat sexual behavior is unaffected by perinatal fluoxetine exposure
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 22. July 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Patty Huijgens, Eelke Snoeren, Robert Meisel, Paul Mermelstein :
    Effects of gonadectomy and dihydrotestosterone on neuronal plasticity in motivation and reward related brain regions in the male rat
    Journal of neuroendocrinology 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Roy Heijkoop, Patty Thalia Huijgens, Eelke Snoeren :
    Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls.
    Behavioural Brain Research 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Patty Huijgens :
    Sex and the brain: from hormones to behavior
    2022
  • Patty Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, LJMJ Vanderschuren, Heidi Lesscher, Eelke Snoeren :
    The role of the BNST and surrounding areas in the regulation of natural reward consummation
    2022
  • Patty Huijgens, Eelke Snoeren, Robert Meisel, Paul Mermelstein :
    Effects of androgen on spine plasticity in several motivation-related brain regions in the male rat
    2020
  • Patty Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, Louk Vanderschuren, Heidi Lesscher, Eelke Snoeren :
    Effect of stimulating and silencing the BNST and BNST-VTA projection on sucrose self-administration in rats
    2019
  • Patty Huijgens, Eelke Snoeren, Robert Meisel, Paul Mermelstein :
    Effects of androgen on spine plasticity in several brain regions in the male rat
    2019
  • Patty Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, LJMJ Vanderschuren, Heidi Lesscher, Eelke Snoeren :
    Involvement of the BNST and its projection to the VTA in motivation for a natural food reward
    2019
  • Patty Thalia Huijgens, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Snoeren :
    Involvement of glutamatergic medial amygdala neurons in ejaculation in male rats
    2017

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    Research interests

    Sociosexual behavior and its neurobiological underpinnings




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