Early life adversity enhances prosocial helping towards a cagemate and reshapes brain-wide neural activity and network organization
Jocelyn Breton, Audrey Lynch, Janey Chiang, Samadhi Wijethunga, Isabelle Abdallah, Jeremiah Hickman-Maynard, Zara Poon, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Heather C. Brenhouse
This study shows that early life adversity increases prosocial helping behavior in rats and is associated with changes in brain-wide neural activity and network organization.
bioRxiv · Oct 27, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience