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ReviewNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2023

Neural circuits regulating prosocial behaviors.

Jessica J Walsh, Daniel J Christoffel, Robert C Malenka

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Review in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
12.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Mapping brain-wide activity networks: brainways as a tool for neurobiological discovery.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  18. Therapeutic mechanisms of psychedelics and entactogens.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jessica J WalshDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA. Jessica_walsh@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8466-8451
Daniel J ChristoffelNeuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6303-5134
Robert C MalenkaNancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305-5453, USA. malenka@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5428-5211
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USStanford Medicine · US

Funding

Training CoreP50DA042012 · NIDA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Leanne Williams · 2017 to 2026
$27.1M
Role of Nucleus Accumbens and Its Glutamatergic Inputs in High-Fat intakeR00DK115895 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHRISTOFFEL, DANIEL JOSEPH · 2021 to 2023
$736k
Systems level investigation of di-synaptic circuit involved in panic disorderF32MH103949 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WALSH, JESSICA JILLIAN · 2014 to 2016
$126k
Function of thalamic excitatory synapses in social reward processingF32MH106206 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHRISTOFFEL, DANIEL JOSEPH · 2015 to 2017
$81k
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA042012NIDDK NIH HHS R00 DK115895NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH103949NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH106206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positive, prosocial interactions are essential for survival, development, and well-being. These intricate and complex behaviors are mediated by an amalgamation of neural circuit mechanisms working in concert. Impairments in prosocial behaviors, which occur in a large number of neuropsychiatric disorders, result from disruption of the coordinated activity of these neural circuits. In this review, we focus our discussion on recent findings that utilize modern approaches in rodents to map, monitor, and manipulate neural circuits implicated in a variety of prosocial behaviors. We highlight how modulation by oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in specific brain regions is critical for regulation of adaptive prosocial interactions. We then describe how recent findings have helped elucidate pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the social deficits that accompany neuropsychiatric disorders. We conclude by discussing approaches for the development of more efficacious and targeted therapeutic interventions to ameliorate aberrant prosocial behaviors.

Indexed as

AltruismOxytocinBrainDopamineSocial BehaviorSynaptic TransmissionDopamineOxytocin

Identifiers

PMID35701550
PMCPMC9700801
OpenAlexW4282828606

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