Social behaviours are essential for animal survival, and the hypothalamic neuropeptide
oxytocin (OXT) critically impacts bonding, parenting, and decision-making. Dopamine (DA) …

Social interactions are critical for mammalian survival and evolution. Dysregulation of social
behavior often leads to psychopathologies such as social anxiety disorder, denoted by …

Parental behavior is essential for mammalian offspring to survive. Because of this
significance, elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms that facilitate parental behavior …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of social
impairments including social fear. However, the precise subcortical partners that mediate …

In mammals, some physiological conditions are associated with the high brain oxytocin
(OXT) system activity. These include lactation in females and mating in males and females …

Oxytocin plays critical roles in the brain as a neuromodulator, regulating social and other
affective behavior. However, the regulatory mechanisms controlling oxytocin receptor …

Most studies of adolescent and adult behavior involved one age group of each, whereas the
dynamic changes in brain development suggest that there may be behavioral flux in …

More than any other neuropeptide, oxytocin (OXT) is attracting the attention of
neurobiologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, evolutionary biologists and even economists. It …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition characterized
by impairments in social interaction, communication, as well as restrained or stereotyped …

Social behavior decreases with aging, and we have previously found a substantial decline
in social investigative behavior of old female rats. In this study we examined the neural …