The quality of the social environment can have profound influences on the development and
activity of neural systems with implications for numerous behavioral and physiological …

The non-genomic transmission of maternal behavior from one generation to the next
illustrates the pervasive influence of maternal care on offspring development and the high …

Puberty is a crucial phase for the development of female sexual behavior. Growing evidence
suggests that stress during this period may interfere with the development of sexual …

Abstract Previous studies in Long-Evans rats demonstrated a significant relationship
between variation in pup licking/grooming and arched-back nursing (LG-ABN) and offspring …

Social stressors are known to have strong negative impacts on mental health. There is a
long history of preclinical social defeat stress studies in rodents focusing on males that has …

Exposure to stress during puberty can lead to long-term behavioral alterations in adult
rodents coincident with sex steroid hormone-dependent brain remodeling and …

For social animals, a moderate group size is greatly important to maintain their reproductive
success. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanism of group size on behavior …

Play is very widespread among young mammals, yet its functions remain mysterious.
Ethologists have largely relied on social deprivation experiments or correlational studies to …

Social environment has well-established effects on an animal's social behavior and
associated neuroendocrine responses. The presence of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) in …

Emotions are often associated with the evolution of monogamy. For example, fear of
cuckoldry has been recently proposed as the driving force for human monogamy. We used …