Dr. William David Pierce M.D.
Internist
129b W 18th St Wilmington DE, 19802About
Dr. William Pierce is an internist practicing in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Pierce specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Pierce provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of short-term prefeeding and body weight on wheel running and responding
- Reinforcement value and substitutability of sucrose and wheel running: implications for activity anorexia.
- Body weight manipulation, reinforcement value and choice between sucrose and wheel running: a behavioral economic analysis.
- Blocking of conditioned taste avoidance induced by wheel running.
- Bivalent effects of wheel running on taste conditioning.
- Prior caloric restriction increases survival of prepubertal obese- and PCOS-prone rats exposed to a challenge of time-limited feeding and physical activity.
- Commentary on "what happened to analysis in applied behavior analysis" (pierce & epling, 1980).
- Effect of sucrose availability and pre-running on the intrinsic value of wheel running as an operant and a reinforcing consequence.
- Interrelationship of CB1R and OBR pathways in regulation of metabolic, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses to food restriction and voluntary wheel running.
- Effect of sucrose availability on wheel-running as an operant and as a reinforcing consequence on a multiple schedule: Additive effects of extrinsic and automatic reinforcement.
- Cardiometabolic and reproductive benefits of early dietary energy restriction and voluntary exercise in an obese PCOS-prone rodent model.
- Wheel-running reinforcement in free-feeding and food-deprived rats.
- Evidence for positive, but not negative, behavioral contrast with wheel-running reinforcement on multiple variable-ratio schedules.
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