Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

The paper identifies a shared neural circuit in male mice that controls pup-directed behaviors, with sex differences in cell activity balance influencing infanticide and paternal care.

This study shows that oxytocin is essential for rats to learn cooperation and adopt communication-based strategies during social interactions.

This study investigates how prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal stress affects social behavior and oxytocin/vasopressin systems in male and female mice, finding sex-specific impacts on social behavior and gene expression.

This study shows vasopressin enhances emotional responses to social comparisons with strangers, altering neural representations and triggering self-protective mechanisms.

The paper identifies BSTpr Cartpt+ neurons as mediators of pup-directed aggression in male mice and shows their role in the transition to parental care.

The paper maps OXT and OXTR expression in the mouse brain at the single transcript level to identify functional OXT nodes.

This study identifies a circuit in the medial prefrontal cortex where oxytocin modulates interneurons to promote social behavior in female rats, even under physiological stress.

The paper identifies Agouti as a molecular integrator of socio-environmental factors that influence paternal care in African striped mice.

This study shows that an auditory conditioned stimulus induces affiliation in mice, revealing shared neural pathways for learned and innate threat responses.

The paper identifies inhibitory calbindin-expressing neurons in the lateral septum involved in maternal pup-licking behavior and shows their connectivity with maternal regulatory brain regions.

The paper investigates the interaction between oxytocin and dopamine in social safety learning in mice using the social transmission of food preference paradigm, finding that oxytocin enhances learning only when dopamine signaling is intact.

The paper shows that astrocytes mediate a positive feedback loop for oxytocin by upregulating its expression through retinoic acid synthesis.

This study shows that OXTR signaling in lateral septum astrocytes regulates social fear in a sex-dependent manner in mice.

This study investigates the long-term neurobiological and emotional effects of offspring loss in lactating rats, revealing changes in oxytocin and corticotropin-releasing factor systems and stress behaviors.

This study shows that oxytocin administered after encoding selectively enhances female participants' memory consolidation of male faces, without similar effects in males.

The paper investigates the distinct behavioral and electrophysiological roles of oxytocin neurons in the anterior and posterior paraventricular nucleus using genetic and pharmacological manipulations in mice.

The paper shows that astrocytes regulate maternal behavior through connexin 30, affecting oxytocin levels and synaptic structure in the hypothalamus of female mice.

The paper identifies 11 brain areas important for social behavior in three-spined sticklebacks using comparative neuroanatomical landmarks and TH expression analysis.

The paper develops the Tube-Sealing Test to quantify offspring-centered defensive behavior in postpartum mice and finds that postpartum females exhibit more intense sealing behavior compared to other groups.

The paper investigates sex differences in neuronal activation of the aggression-regulating neural circuitry in Syrian hamsters following aggressive encounters.

This study shows that left and right vagal oxytocin signaling differentially control feeding and socioemotional behaviors via hypothalamic oxytocin neurons in mice.

The paper develops a sensitive method to measure eleven estrogens in songbirds and finds that only estrone and 17β-E2 are detectable, with seasonal variation but no effect of simulated territorial intrusion on estrogen levels.

The paper identifies hormone-specific neuronal circuits in the hypothalamus that regulate sex- and state-dependent infant caregiving behaviors in mothers and fathers.

The paper identifies vasopressin-to-oxytocin receptor crosstalk in the preoptic area as a key mechanism for paternal caregiving behaviors in male mice.

This study examines how intranasal oxytocin affects brain entropy in young and old adults using fMRI-based mapping and finds age-dependent changes in brain activity.

This study introduces an automated two-choice social operant task to investigate moment-to-moment social satiety in animals, finding that males exhibit behavioral signatures of satiety and sensitivity to interaction duration.

This study investigates whether visual observation of maternal behavior is sufficient for pup retrieval in pup-naive virgin mice, finding no significant difference in retrieval success between visual access and barrier conditions.

This study compares maternal care and early pup development across three rat strains, finding strain-specific differences in behavior and development.

This study identifies SONAVP neuron hyperactivity as a driver of aging-related homeostatic deficits and suggests AVP signaling modulation as a therapeutic strategy.