Aggression is a social behavior essential for securing resources and defending oneself and
family. Thanks to its indispensable function in competition and thus survival, aggression …

Stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder and
posttraumatic stress disorder, exact enormous socioeconomic and individual consequences …

Social behaviors are among the most important motivated behaviors. How dopamine (DA),
a" reward" signal, releases during social behaviors has been a topic of interest for decades …

Highlights•Chronic drug use alters the epigenetic state of neurons and other cell types within
brain reward regions.•Epigenetic adaptations are correlated with addiction, but their causal …

Inappropriate and pathological aggression plays a leading role in the suffering and death of
millions of people, and further places an untenable strain on the caregivers and families of …

Repeated cocaine use induces coordinated changes in gene expression that drive plasticity
in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), an important component of the brain's reward circuitry, and …

Prosocial behavior, in particular helping others in need, occurs preferentially in response to
distress of one's own group members. In order to explore the neural mechanisms promoting …

Aggression is an evolutionarily conserved, adaptive component of social behavior. Studies
in male mice illustrate that aggression is influenced by numerous factors including the …

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a sexually dimorphic, neuropeptide‐rich
node of the extended amygdala that has been implicated in responses to stress, drugs of …

Little is known about how social factors contribute to neurobiology or neuropsychiatric
disorders. The use of mice allows one to probe the neurobiological bases of social …