ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2021
The social network: Neural control of sex differences in reproductive behaviors, motivation, and response to social isolation.
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- On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies - insights from home-cage monitoring.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Distinct oxytocin populations support seismic social communication and militant behaviors in a naturally solitary wild rodent.iScience · 2025Article
- Ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl) nNOS neurons regulate social behaviors in a sex-specific manner.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Separable dorsal raphe dopamine projections mimic the facets of a loneliness-like state.eLife · 2025Article
- A review of the effects of different types of social behaviors on the recruitment of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters in the nucleus accumbens.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Stress and Obesity Signaling Converge on CREB Phosphorylation to Promote Pancreatic Cancer.Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2025Article
- Sex differences in the social motivation of rats: Insights from social operant conditioning, behavioural economics, and video tracking.Biology of sex differences · 2024Article
- A vasopressin circuit that modulates mouse social investigation and anxiety-like behavior in a sex-specific manner.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Sex diversity in the 21st century: Concepts, frameworks, and approaches for the future of neuroendocrinology.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Neuroinflammation and microglial expression in brains of social-isolation rearing model of schizophrenia.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization within groups of wild house mice.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Minimal influence of estrous cycle on studies of female mouse behaviors.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Communal nesting differentially attenuates the impact of pre-weaning social isolation on behavior in male and female rats during adolescence and adulthood.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Epigenetic Mechanisms of Brain Sexual Differentiation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2022Review
- Reproductive tradeoffs govern sexually dimorphic tubular lysosome induction in Caenorhabditis elegans.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social animal species present a vast repertoire of social interactions when encountering conspecifics. Reproduction-related behaviors, such as mating, parental care, and aggression, are some of the most rewarding types of social interactions and are also the most sexually dimorphic ones. This review focuses on rodent species and summarizes recent advances in neuroscience research that link sexually dimorphic reproductive behaviors to sexual dimorphism in their underlying neuronal circuits. Specifically, we present a few possible mechanisms governing sexually-dimorphic behaviors, by hypothalamic and reward-related brain regions. Sex differences in the neural response to social isolation in adulthood are also discussed, as well as future directions for comparative studies with naturally solitary species.
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