ReviewCurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences2022
Mean Girls: Social Stress Models for Female Rodents.
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- Distinctive behavioral and neurochemical profile of social stress in male and female adolescent mice.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Pairing Mouse Social and Aversive Stimuli across Sexes Does Not Produce Social Aversion in Females.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Review
- Male and female mice may respectively form stronger social aversive memories with same and different sex conspecifics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Effects of repeated social stress on risk assessment behaviors and response to diazepam in the elevated plus maze in adult male rats.Behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Accumbal Dopamine Responses Are Distinct between Female Rats with Active and Passive Coping Strategies.Biomolecules · 2024Article
- Individual Differences in Volitional Social Self-Administration and Motivation in Male and Female Mice Following Social Stress.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Neurobiological basis of stress resilience.Neuron · 2024Review
- Leveraging the unique social organization of California mice to study circuit-specific effects of oxytocin on behavior.Hormones and behavior · 2024Review
- Limbic oxytocin receptor expression alters molecular signaling and social avoidance behavior in female prairie voles (Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sexual differentiation of neural mechanisms of stress sensitivity during puberty.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Stress, associative learning, and decision-making.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2023Review
- Comparative Transcriptional Analyses in the Nucleus Accumbens Identifies RGS2 as a Key Mediator of Depression-Related Behavior.Biological psychiatry · 2022Article
- Oxytocin receptor behavioral effects and cell types in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
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- Alcohol binge drinking in adolescence and psychological profile: Can the preclinical model crack the chicken-or-egg question?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social stressors are known to have strong negative impacts on mental health. There is a long history of preclinical social defeat stress studies in rodents focusing on males that has produced important insights into the neural mechanisms that modulate depression- and anxiety-related behavior. Despite these impressive results, a historical weakness of rodent social stress models has been an under-representation of studies in females. This is problematic because rates of depression and anxiety are higher in women versus men. Recently there has been a surge of interest in adapting social stress methods for female rodents. Here we review new rodent models that have investigated numerous facets of social stress in females. The different models have different strengths and weaknesses, with some model systems having stronger ethological validity with other models having better access to molecular tools to manipulate neural circuits. Continued use and refinement of these complementary models will be critical for addressing gaps in understanding the function of neural circuits modulating depression- and anxiety-related behavior in females.
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