[HTML][HTML] Bidirectional control of infant rat social behavior via dopaminergic innervation of the basolateral amygdala

M Opendak, C Raineki, RE Perry, M Rincón-Cortés… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Social interaction deficits seen in psychiatric disorders emerge in early-life and are most
closely linked to aberrant neural circuit function. Due to technical limitations, we have limited …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of social behavior deficit, blunted corticolimbic activity and adult depression-like behavior in a rodent model of maternal maltreatment

M Rincón-Cortés, RM Sullivan - Translational psychiatry, 2016 - nature.com
Disrupted social behavior is a core symptom of multiple psychiatric and neurodevelopmental
disorders. Many of these disorders are exacerbated by adverse infant experiences …

Mechanisms and functional implications of social buffering in infants: Lessons from animal models

RM Sullivan, RE Perry - Social Neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social buffering, which is the attenuation of stress hormone release by a social partner,
occurs in many species throughout the lifespan. Social buffering of the infant by the …

Using cross-species comparisons and a neurobiological framework to understand early social deprivation effects on behavioral development

ZH Brett, KL Humphreys, AS Fleming… - Development and …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Building upon the transactional model of brain development, we explore the impact of early
maternal deprivation on neural development and plasticity in three neural systems …

[HTML][HTML] Rodent models of early adversity: Impacts on developing social behavior circuitry and clinical implications

K Packard, M Opendak - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Flexible and context-appropriate social functioning is key for survival across species. This
flexibility also renders social behavior highly plastic, particularly during early development …

Neurobehavioral assessment of maternal odor in developing rat pups: implications for social buffering

S Al Aïn, RE Perry, B Nuñez, K Kayser… - Social …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Social support can attenuate the behavioral and stress hormone response to threat, a
phenomenon called social buffering. The mother's social buffering of the infant is one of the …

The effects of early life stress on the excitatory/inhibitory balance of the medial prefrontal cortex

K Ohta, S Suzuki, K Warita, K Sumitani… - Behavioural Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aversive environmental conditions during early life are known to cause long-lasting social
deficits, similar to those observed in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders. However …

Toward a new biology of social adversity

WT Boyce, MB Sokolowski… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
the paper by Bagot et al.(31) shows how maternal behavior induces epigenetic
modifications of a glutamate receptor gene that affect synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus …

Social buffering of stress responses in nonhuman primates: Maternal regulation of the development of emotional regulatory brain circuits

MM Sanchez, KM McCormack, BR Howell - Social neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social buffering, the phenomenon by which the presence of a familiar individual reduces or
even eliminates stress-and fear-induced responses, exists in different animal species and …

During infant maltreatment, stress targets hippocampus, but stress with mother present targets amygdala and social behavior

C Raineki, M Opendak, E Sarro… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Infant maltreatment increases vulnerability to physical and mental disorders, yet specific
mechanisms embedded within this complex infant experience that induce this vulnerability …