Social stress is a negative emotional experience that can increase fear and anxiety.
Dominance status can alter the way individuals react to and cope with stressful events. The …

In several rodent species social play appears to be necessary for proper deployment of
species-specific patterns of aggressive and reproductive behavior. Specifically, in male …

Social hierarchy position in humans is negatively correlated with stress-related psychiatric
disease risk. Animal models have largely corroborated human studies, showing that social …

Anxiety disorders represent 1 of the most common classes of psychiatric disorders. In the
aging population and for patients with age-related pathology, the percentage of people …

Identifying the physiological and behavioral mechanisms that underlie stress vulnerability is
a crucial step toward identifying novel targets for the prevention and treatment of stress …

Reliable representations of information regarding complex behaviors including social
interactions require the coordinated activity of heterogeneous cell types within distributed …

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and prelimbic (PL) and infralimbic (IL) cortices are
interconnected structures that participate in the regulation of fear. Unknown are the …

The life-history theory suggests that parental experience of the environment is passed to
offspring, which allows them to adapt to prevailing conditions. This idea is supported from …

Uncovering the genetic, physiological, and developmental mechanisms underlying
phenotypic variation is necessary for understanding how genetic and genomic variation …

The central amygdala, CeA, is an important brain region that regulates behavioral changes
in response to stressful and fear-inducing stimuli. Social subordination is a stressful …