Stress often affects our social lives. When undergoing high-level or persistent stress,
individuals frequently retract from social interactions and become irritable and hostile …

Many social behaviours are evolutionarily conserved and are essential for the healthy
development of an individual. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is crucial for the fine-tuned …

Bacterial anti-phage systems are frequently clustered in microbial genomes, forming
defense islands. This property enabled the recent discovery of multiple defense systems …

Social preference, the decision to interact with one member of the same species over
another, is critical to optimize social interactions. Thus, adult rodents favor interacting with …

Maternal immune activation (MIA) puts offspring at greater risk for neurodevelopmental
disorders associated with impaired social behavior. While it is known that immune signaling …

Oxytocin (OT) and the OT receptor occupy essential roles in our current understanding of
mammalian evolution, survival, sociality and reproduction. This narrative review examines …

Social interaction is stressful and subordinate individuals are often subjected to chronic
stress, which greatly affects both their behavior and physiology. In teleost fish the social …

Modelling complex social behavior in the laboratory is challenging and requires analyses of
dyadic interactions occurring over time in a physically and socially complex environment. In …

The posterodorsal medial amygdala (MePD) is a neural site in the limbic brain involved in
regulating emotional and sexual behaviours. There is, however, limited information …

Chronic stress creates an allostatic overload that may lead to mood disorders such as
anxiety and depression. Modern causes of chronic stress in humans are mostly social in …