ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2015
Compared to what: What can we say about nonapeptide function and social behavior without a frame of reference?
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- Effects of post-weaning social isolation on social behaviors and oxytocinergic activity in male and female rats.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Developmental trajectories and influences of environmental complexity on oxytocin receptor and vasopressin 1A receptor expression in male and female prairie voles.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2018Article
- Mechanistic substrates of a life history transition in male prairie voles: Developmental plasticity in affiliation and aggression corresponds to nonapeptide neuronal function.Hormones and behavior · 2018Article
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- Dynamic modulation of sociality and aggression: an examination of plasticity within endocrine and neuroendocrine systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Quantitative mapping reveals age and sex differences in vasopressin, but not oxytocin, immunoreactivity in the rat social behavior neural network.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2017Article
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- Early Intranasal Vasopressin Administration Impairs Partner Preference in Adult Male Prairie Voles (Frontiers in endocrinology · 2017Article
- Navigating Monogamy: Nonapeptide Sensitivity in a Memory Neural Circuit May Shape Social Behavior and Mating Decisions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
- Neuropeptide diversity and the regulation of social behavior in New World primates.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Our understanding of behavior and mechanism is undermined by the absence of a frame of reference because relationships between individuals and species are without context. We highlight a need to be more comparative, using nonapeptide (vasopressin and oxytocin) modulation of social behavior as an example. We reconsider the use of model organisms and the term 'social' in this context, contrasting two popular models for nonapeptide regulation of social behavior. We then propose that a frame of reference should be established by studying mechanisms of behavior across taxa along the same continua. If we are to ever establish a unifying theory of behavior, we must transcend individual examples and determine the relative relationships of behavior and mechanism among and between species.
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