The medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in the regulation of social behavior
and associated with psychiatric diseases but their detailed neurophysiological mechanisms …

An increasing amount of research effort is being directed toward investigating the neural
bases of social cognition from a systems neuroscience perspective. Evidence from multiple …

Hierarchical social status greatly influences behavior and health. Human and animal studies
have begun to identify the brain regions that are activated during the formation of social …

Social behavior encompasses a number of distinctive and complex constructs that form the
core elements of human imitative culture, mainly represented as either affiliative or …

Social cognition is a complex process that requires the integration of a wide variety of
behaviors, including salience, reward-seeking, motivation, knowledge of self and others …

Although the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is known to play a crucial role in rodent social
behavior, little is known about mPFC neural correlates of social behavior. In the present …

" James Watson once said,'there are only molecules; everything else is sociology.'His
tongue-in-cheek arrogance reminds us of the great gulf that once separated the'two cultures' …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the amygdala is central to handling the demands
of complex social life in primates. In this paper, we synthesize extant anatomical and …

We live in a world that is largely socially constructed, and we are constantly involved in and
fundamentally influenced by a broad array of complex social interactions. Social behaviors …

Mammalian social interactions are orchestrated by a wide array of neural circuits. While
some aspects of social behaviors are driven by subcortical circuits, and are considered to be …