ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2023
A Novel Head-Fixed Assay for Social Touch in Mice Uncovers Aversive Responses in Two Autism Models.
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- A reduced ability to discriminate social from non-social touch at the circuit level may underlie social avoidance in autism.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mapping the landscape of social behavior.Cell · 2025Article
- Effect of the social environment on olfaction and social skills in wild-type and a mouse model of autism.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mapping the landscape of social behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Social touch, an important aspect of social interaction and communication, is essential to kinship across animal species. How animals experience and respond to social touch has not been thoroughly investigated, in part because of the lack of appropriate assays. Previous studies that examined social touch in freely moving rodents lacked the necessary temporal and spatial control over individual touch interactions. We designed a novel head-fixed assay for social touch in mice, in which the experimenter has complete control to elicit highly stereotyped bouts of social touch between two animals. The user determines the number, duration, context, and type of social touch interactions, while monitoring an array of complex behavioral responses with high resolution cameras. We focused on social touch to the face because of its high translational relevance to humans. We validated this assay in two different models of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the
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