Lateral septum DREADD activation alters male prairie vole prosocial and antisocial behaviors, not partner preferences

LL Sailer, AH Park, A Galvez, AG Ophir - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Although much has been written on the topic of social behavior, many terms referring to
different aspects of social behavior have become inappropriately conflated and the specific …

The parental umwelt: Effects of parenthood on sensory processing in rodents

KM Wilson, AM Arquilla… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An animal's umwelt, comprising its perception of the sensory environment, which is
inherently subjective, can change across the lifespan in accordance with major life events. In …

Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles

SA Forero, LL Sailer, A Girčytė, JE Madrid… - Hormones and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monogamous pair bonding has evolved to enhance reproductive success and ensure
offspring survival. Although the behavioral and neural mechanisms regulating the formation …

Cupid's quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems

NEG Hoglen, DS Manoli - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In many animal species, males and females exploit different mating strategies, display sex-
typical behaviors, and use distinct systems to recognize ethologically relevant cues. Mate …

Varied impacts of social relationships on neuroendocrine state

NH Prior, CM Haakenson, S Clough, GF Ball… - Hormones and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social relationships, affiliative social attachments, are important for many species. The best
studied types of relationships are monogamous pair bonds. However, it remains unclear …

Context-dependent activation of a social behavior brain network during learned vocal production

KL Anderson, L Colón, V Doolittle… - Brain Structure and …, 2023 - Springer
Neural activation in brain regions for vocal control is social context dependent. This context-
dependent brain activation reflects social context-appropriate vocal behavior but has …

Auditory pallial regulation of the social behavior network

JA Spool, AP Lally, L Remage-Healey - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Sensory cues such as vocalizations contain important social information. Processing social
features of vocalizations (eg, vocalizer identity, emotional state) necessitates unpacking the …

[HTML][HTML] The association between subjective cognitive decline and trajectories of objective cognitive decline: Do social relationships matter?

M Pai, W Lu, M Chen, B Xue - Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives We examine the association between subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and the
trajectories of objective cognitive decline (OCD); and the extent to which this association is …

Characterization of oxytocin and vasopressin receptors in the Southern giant pouched rat and comparison to other rodents

AR Freeman, S Arenas, DN Lee, B Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Vasopressin and oxytocin are well known and evolutionarily ancient modulators of social
behavior. The distribution and relative densities of vasopressin and oxytocin receptors are …

Evidence for individual vocal recognition in a pair-bonding poison frog, Ranitomeya imitator

ME Podraza, JB Moss… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Individually distinctive vocalizations are widespread in nature, although the ability of
receivers to discriminate these signals has only been explored through limited taxonomic …