Publications

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Potegal, M. (1969). The role of the caudate nucleus in spatial orientation in rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 69, 156-164.

Potegal, M. (1971). A note on spatial-motor deficits in patients with Huntington's disease. Neuropsychologia, 9,233-235.

Potegal, M. (1971). Book review of "Physiological Psychology" by Peter Milner. Archives of Neurology, 24, 384.

Potegal, M., Copack, P., deJong, J. M. B. V., Krauthamer, G., & Gilman, S. (1971). Vestibular input to the caudate nucleus. Experimental Neurology, 32,448-465.

Potegal, M. (1972). The caudate nucleus egocentric localization system. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 32, 479-494.

Potegal, M., Abraham, L., Gilman, S., & Copack, P. (1975). A technique for vestibular neurotomy in the rat. Physiology and Behavior, 14,217-221.

Potegal, M., Marotta, R., & Gimino, F. (1975). Factors in the waning of muricide in the rat: I. Analysis of intra-and intersession decrement. Aggressive Behavior, 1,277-290.

Potegal, M., Day, M., & Abraham, L. (1977). Maze orientation, visual and vestibular factors in 2-maze spontaneous alternation. Physiological Psychology, 5,414-420.

Marotta, R., Logan, M., Gardner, E., Potegal, M., & Glusman, M. (1979). Dopamine agonists induce recovery from surgically-induced septal rage. Nature, 1977, 269,513-515.

Potegal, M., Gimino, F., Marotta, R., & Glusman, M. (1979). Factors in the waning of muricide in the rat. II. Digging Behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 5,283-290.

Potegal, M. (1979). The reinforcing value of several types of aggressive behavior: A review. Aggressive Behavior, 5,353-373.

Potegal, M., Blau, A., Black, M. & Glusman, M. (1980). A technique for the study of intraspecific aggression in the golden hamster under conditions of reduced target variability. The Psychological Record, 30,191-200.

Potegal, M., Gibbons, J., & Glusman, M. (1980). Inhibition of muricide by septal stimulation in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 24,863-867.

Potegal, M., Blau, A., Black, M., & Glusman, M. (1980). Effects of castration of male golden hamsters on their aggression toward a restrained target. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 29,315-330.

Potegal, M., Blau, A., & Miller, S. (1980). Preliminary observations with a technique for measuring current spread in the rat brain. Physiology and Behavior, 25,769-773.

Potegal, M., Blau, A., & Glusman, M. (1981). Inhibition of intraspecific aggression in male hamsters by septal stimulation. Physiological Psychology, 9,213-218.

Yoburn, B.C., Glusman, M., Potegal, M., & Skaredoff, L. (1981). Facilitation of muricide in rats by cholinergic stimulation of the lateral hypothalmus. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 15,747-753.

Potegal, M., Blau A., & Glusman, M. (1981). Effects of anteroventral septal lesions on intraspecific aggression in male hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 26,407-412.

Potegal, M. (1982). Vestibular and neostriatal contributions to spatial orientations, In M. Potegal (Ed.). Spatial Abilities: Development and Physiological Foundations. New York: Academic Press.

Potegal, M., Perumal, A., Barkai, A., Cannova, G., & Blau, A. (1982). GABA binding in the brains of aggressive and nonaggressive female hamsters. Brain Research, 247,315-324.

Bodnar, R.J., Sharpless, N.S., Kordower, J.H., Potegal, M., & Barr, G. (1982). Analgesic responses following adrenal demedullation and peripheral catecholamine depletion. Physiology and Behavior, 1982, 29,1105-1109.

Potegal, M. (1982). The special nature of spatial information. Commentary on a target article by I. Lieblich and M. Arbib. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5,647-648.

Miller, S., Potegal, M., & Abraham, L. (1983). Vestibular involvement in a passive transport and return task. Physiological Psychology, 11,1-10.

Abraham, L., Potegal, M., & Miller, S. (1983). Evidence for caudate nucleus involvement in a egocentric spatial task: Return from passive transport. Physiological Psychology, 11, 11-17.

Potegal, M., Yoburn, C., & Glusman, M. (1983). Disinhibition of muricide and irritability by instraseptal muscimol. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 19,663-669.

Potegal, M. (1983). Book review of "The Biology of Aggression" (P. Brain and D. Benton [Eds.]). Aggressive Behavior, 9,272-275.

Potegal, M., & tenBrink, L. (1984). The behavior of attack-primed and attack-satiated female golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 98,66-75.

de Leon, M.J., Potegal, M., & Gurland, B. (1984). Wandering and parietal signs in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type. Neuropsychobiology, 11,155-157.

Potegal, M. (1984). The persistence of attack satiation in female golden hamsters. Aggressive Behavior, 10,303-307.

Barkai, A., Potegal, M., & Kowalik, S. (1985). Decline of GABA update in the hamster preoptic area following light offset. Journal of Neurochemistry, 44,987-989.

Potegal, M., & Popken, J. (1985). The time course of attack priming effects in female golden hamsters. Behavioral Process, 11,199-208.

Potegal, M. (1986). Skirmishes on the frontiers of a field: Book review of K.J. Flanelly, R.J. Blanchard and C. D. Blanchard (Eds.). Biological Perspectives on Aggression. Contemporary Psychology, 31,517.

Potegal, M., Barkai, A.I., & Cooper, T. (1986). Opioid and serotonergic control of aggressive state. In: C. Shagass, W. H. Bridger, D. Stoff, R. Josiassen, K. Weiss & G. M. Simpson (Eds). (1985). Biological Psychiatry(pp. 183-185), Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Potegal, M. (1986). Differential effects of ethyl (R,S)-nipecotate on the behaviors of highly and minimally aggressive female hamsters. Psychopharmacology, 89,444-448.

Chen, Y-c., Pellis, S.M., Sirkin, D.W., Potegal, M., & Teitelbaum, P. (1986). Bandage backfall: Labyrinthine and nonlabyrinthine components. Physiology and Behavior, 37,805-814.

Potegal, M. (1987). The vestibular navigation hypothesis: a progress report. In: P. Ellen and C. Thinus-Blanc (Eds.). Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff.

Potegal, M. (1987). Book review of "Hormones and aggressive behavior" B. Svare (Ed). Aggressive Behavior, 13,45-46.

Potegal, M., Antilla, A., & Glusman, M. (1988). Alterations in aggression following GABAergic modulation of septal and raphe activity. Psychobiology, 16,174-177.

Ferris, C.F. & Potegal, M. (1988). Vasopressin receptor blockade in the anterior hypothalamus suppresses intraspecific aggression in hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 44,235-239.

Potegal, M. & Einon, D. (1989). Aggressive behaviors in adult rats deprived of playfighting experience as juveniles. Developmental Psychobiology, 22,159-172.

Potegal, M. & Myers, M. M. (1989). Spontaneously hypertensive Wistar derived rats are more aggressive than those of their normotensive progenitor strain. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 51,247-261.

Potegal, M. & Ferris, C. F. (1989). Intraspecific aggression in male hamsters is inhibited by intra- hypothalamic vasopressin receptor antagonist. Aggressive Behavior, 15,311-320.

Ferris, C., Gold, L., de Vries, G.J., & Potegal, M. (1990). Evidence for a functional and anatomical relationship between the lateral septum and the hypothalamus in the control of flank marking behavior in the golden hamster. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 293,476-485.

Ferris, C., Irvin, R. W., Potegal, M., & Axelson, J. F. (1990). Kainic acid lesion of vasopressinergic neurons in the hypothalamus disrupts flank marking behavior in golden hamsters. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2,123-129.

Irvin, R. W., Szot, P., Dorsa, D. M., Potegal, M., & Ferris, C. (1990). Vasopressin in the septal area of the golden hamster controls scent marking and grooming. Physiology and Behavior, 48, 693-699. Einon, D. & Potegal, M. (1991). Enhanced defense in adult rats deprived of play fighting experience as juveniles. Aggressive Behavior, 17,27-40.

Potegal, M. (1991). Attack priming and satiation in female golden hamsters: Tests of some alternatives to the aggression arousal interpretation. Aggressive Behavior, 17,327-336.

Ferris, C., George, J. K., Eastwood, G., Potegal, M., & Carraway, R. E. (1991). Diurnal changes in plasma levels of human neurotensin: Methodological and physiological considerations. Peptides, 12,215-220.

Potegal, M. (1992). Aggression and aggressiveness in female golden hamsters. In K. Bjorkqvist and P. Niemela, (Eds). Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggession. San Diego: Academic Press.

Potegal, M. (1992). Time course of aggressive arousal in female golden hamsters and male rats. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 58,120-124.

Potegal, M., Huhman, K., Moore, T., & Meyerhoff, J. (1993). Conditioned defeat in hamsters. Behavioral and Neural Biology , 60,93-102.

Einon, D.F. & Potegal, M. (1994). Temper tantrums in young children. In M. Potegal, and J. Knutson, (Eds.). The Dynamics of Aggression: Biological and Social Processes in Dyads and Groups. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Potegal, M. (1994). Aggressive arousal: The amygdala connection. In M. Potegal and J> Knutson (Eds.). The Dynamics of Aggression: Biological and Social Processes in Dyads and Groups. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ferris, C.F., Delville, Y., Irvin, R., & Potegal, M. (1994). Septo-hypothalamic organization of a stereotyped behavior controlled by vasopressin in golden hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 55,755-759.

Hebert, M., Potegal, M., & Meyerhoff, J. (1994). Flight-elicited attack and priming of aggression in "non-aggressive" hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 56,671-675.

Potegal, M. & Coombes, K. (1995). Attack priming and aggressive arousal in female Syrian golden hamsters Mesocricetus auratus. Animal Behaviour, 49, 931-947.

Potegal, M, Hebert, M., DeCoster, M. & Meyerhoff, J. (1996). Brief, high frequency stimulation of the corticomedial amygdala induces a delayed and prolonged increase of aggressiveness in male Syrian golden hamsters. Behavioral Neuroscience, 110,1-12.

Potegal, M, Ferris, C.`F., Hebert, M., Meyerhoff, J., & Skaredoff, L. (1996). Attack priming in female Syrian golden hamsters is associated with a c-fos coupled process within the corticomedial amygdala. Neuroscience, 75,869-880.

Potegal, M. Kosorok, M. R., & Davidson R. J. (1996). The time course of angry behavior in the temper tantrums of young children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 794,31-45.

Hebert, M., Potegal, M., Moore, T., Evenson, A.R., & Meyerhoff, J. (1996). Diazepam exacerbates conditioned defeat in hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus).Pharmacalogy, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 55,405-413.

Potegal, M., & Davidson, R. J. (1997). Young children's post tantrum affiliation with their parents. Aggressive Behavior (special issue on Appeasement and Reconciliation), 23,329-342.

Potegal, M. (2000). Toddler tantrums: Flushing and other visible autonomic activity in an anger-crying complex. In R. Barr et al. (Eds). Crying as a Sign, a Symptom, and a Signal: Clinical, Emotional, and Developmental Aspects of Infant and Toddler Crying(pp.121-136). Surrey, UK: Mac Keith Press.

Potegal, M. (2000). Post tantrum affiliation with parents: The ontogeny of reconciliation. In F. Aureli and F. de Waal (Eds). Natural Conflict Resolution(pp 253-255). Berkely: University of California Press.

Potegal, M., and Davidson, R.J  (2003) Temper tantrums in young children:  Behavioral Composition.  J. Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 24, 140-147

Potegal, M. Kosorok, M. R. and Davidson R.J (2003)  Temper tantrums in young children:  Tantrum duration and temporal organization.  J. Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 24, 148-154

Potegal, M., and Archer, J. (2004)  Sex Differences in  Childhood Anger and Aggression. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric  Clinics of North America: Sex and Gender. In press

Potegal, M. (2005) Characteristics of anger: Notes for a systems theory of emotion. Commentary on a target article by M. Lewis. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 215-216

Potegal, M. (2006) Human cruelty is rooted in the reinforcing effects of intraspecific aggression that subserves dominance motivation. Commentary on a target article by Victor Nell. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 236-237

Potegal, M., Robison,S., Anderson, F., Jordan,C. & Shapiro, E. (2007) Sequence and priming in 15 month olds' reactions to brief arm restraint: Evidence for a hierarchy of anger responses. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 1-11

Potegal, M., Carlson, G., Margulies, D., Basile, J., Gutkovitch, Z. & Wall, M. (2009) The behavioral organization, temporal characteristics, and diagnostic concomitants of rage outbursts in child psychiatry in-patients. Current Psychiatry Reports 11, 127-133

Carlson, G., Potegal, M, Margulies, D. Gutkovitch, Z & Joann Basile (2009) Rages-what are they and who has them? Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 19: 281-288.

Carlson, G., Potegal, M, & Grover, PJ (2009) Helping Children Hospitalized for Rages Psychiatric Times. 26: 38-40

Potegal, M., Carlson, G., Margulies, D. Gutkovitch, Z & Wall, M. (2009) Rages or temper tantrums? The behavioral organization, temporal characteristics, and clinical significance of angry-agitated outbursts in child psychiatry inpatients. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 40: 621-636

Qiu, P , Yang, R. & Potegal, M. (2009) Statistical Modeling of the Time Course of Tantrum Anger. Annals of Applied Statistics 3: 1013-1034.

Carlson, G., Potegal, M, Margulies, Basile, J., & Gutkovitch, (2010) Liquid Risperidone in the treatment of rages in psychiatrically hospitalized children with possible bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders 12: 205-212

Potegal, M., Stemmler, G., & Spielberger, C. (Eds) International Handbook of Anger Springer, N.Y. 2010

BOOKS AND JOURNAL ISSUES

Potegal, M. (Ed.). (1982). Spatial Abilities: Development and Physiological Foundations. New York: Academic Press. Potegal, M. and Knutson, J. (Eds.) (1994). The Dynamics of Aggression: Biological and Social Processes in Dyads and Groups. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Potegal, M. and Keltner, D. (Guest Eds.) (1997). Appeasement and reconciliation. A special issue of Aggressive Behavior, 23, (5).