Integrating the multifactorial processes co-occurring in both physiological and pathological
human conditions still remains one of the main challenges in translational investigation …

Parents in many animal species provide care to their offspring as a mechanism to enhance
their own fitness. In mammals, this behavior is expressed mostly by the females, but also by …

Social separation is thought to induce a strong stress response in social juvenile mammals,
but little is known about how this response might vary throughout the development. The …

Homophily by morphological and behavioral traits has been described in several species of
vertebrates, but its functional consequences remain poorly studied. Homophily by plurally …

Maturation of the forebrain involves transitions from higher to lower levels of synaptic
plasticity. The timecourse of these changes likely differs between regions, with the …

The timing of exposure to the steroid hormone, testosterone, produces activational and
organizational effects in vertebrates. These activational and organizational effects are …

Testosterone is known as a “male” hormone; however, females also synthetize testosterone,
which influences female sexual and aggressive behavior. In female vertebrates, as in males …

ABSTRACTbstract In vertebrates, male testosterone levels vary across the year being
generally higher during the mating season relative to the offspring rearing season. However …

Despite the prevalence of large group-living in the animal kingdom, we know surprisingly
little about how the brain facilitates grouping behavior, particularly in mammals. In this brief …

Octodon degus are a diurnal long-lived social animal widely used to perform longitudinal
studies and complex cognitive tasks to test for physiological conditions with similitude in …