Social interactions are essential for mammalian life and are regulated by evolutionary
conserved neuronal mechanisms. An individual's internal state, experiences, and the nature …

How does cognition regulate innate behaviors? While the cognitive functions of the cortex
have been extensively studied, we know much less about how cognition can regulate innate …

The locus coeruleus noradrenergic (LC-NE) system is one of the first systems engaged
following a stressful event. While numerous groups have demonstrated that LC-NE neurons …

Although the hippocampus is known to be important for declarative memory, it is less clear
how hippocampal output regulates motivated behaviours, such as social aggression. Here …

In contrast to male rats, aggression in virgin female rats has been rarely studied. Here, we
established a rat model of enhanced aggression in females using a combination of social …

Anxiety-related disorders can be treated by cognitive therapies and transcranial magnetic
stimulation, which involve the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Subregions of the mPFC …

OBJECTIVE: Most research on the effects of severe psychological stress has focused on
stress-related psychopathology. Here, the author develops psychobiological models of …

Appropriate regulatory control of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical stress axis is
essential to health and survival. The following review documents the principle extrinsic and …

AbstractAmygdala'andamygdalar complex'are terms that now refer to a highly differentiated
region near the temporal pole of the mammalian cerebral hemisphere. Cell groups within it …

Based on a wide variety of data, it is now clear that birds and teleost (bony) fish possess a
core “social behavior network” within the basal forebrain and midbrain that is homologous to …