Exposure to severe or persistent social stress may lead to the development of psychiatric
disorders such as anxiety and depression. These mood disorders are associated with …

Aggression is costly and requires tight regulation. Here we identify the projection from
estrogen receptor alpha-expressing cells in the caudal part of the medial preoptic area …

Dysregulation of brain homeostasis is associated with neuropsychiatric conditions such as
major depressive disorder. However, underlying neural-circuit mechanisms remain not well …

The negative association between psychological stress and male fertility has been known
for many years. This study was aimed at (i) identifying spermatogenesis impairment induced …

Highlights•Distinct hypothalamic circuits respond to different classes of predators.•Metabolic
challenges influence anti-predatory hypothalamic defensive circuits.•Social hypothalamic …

In the present study, we examined behavioral and brain regional activation changes of rats).
To a nonmammalian predator, a wild rattler snake (Crotalus durissus terrificus). Accordingly …

Previous studies showed that the dorsal premammillary nucleus of the hypothalamus (PMD)
is involved in social passive defensive behaviors likely to be meditated by descending …

We investigated the role of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neurotransmission within the
lateral hypothalamus (LH) in cardiovascular and anxiogenic-like responses evoked by acute …

It has been suggested that the left medial prefrontal cortex (LmPFC) has an inhibitory role in
controlling the right mPFC (RmPFC), thereby reducing the deleterious effects of stressors on …

In the present study, we evaluate the effect of acute restraint stress (15 min) of male Wistar
rats on social interaction measurements and c-Fos immunoreactivity (c-Fos-ir) expression, a …