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Behavioral Modulation by Social Experiences in Rodent Models

Year: 2018

Type: review

Abstract: The lasting behavioral changes elicited by social signals provide important adaptations for survival of organisms that thrive as a group. Unlike the rapid innate responses to social cues, such adaptations have been understudied. Here, the rodent models of the lasting socially induced behavioral changes are presented as either modulations or reinforcements of the distinct forms of learning and memory or non-associative changes of affective state. The purpose of this categorization is to draw attention to the potential mechanistic links between the neuronal pathways that process social cues and the neuronal systems that mediate the well-studied forms of learning and memory. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Source: Current Protocols in Neuroscience

DOI: 10.1002/cpns.50

Author: Alexei Morozov

Institutions: Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech

Language: English

Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health

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