A markedly reduced interest or pleasure in activities previously considered pleasurable is a
main symptom in mood disorder and psychosis and is often present in other psychiatric …

Simple Summary Wild mice live in territories inhabited by one adult male, several females,
and their offspring. This cannot be replicated in the laboratory, so male mice are usually …

Hierarchical social status greatly influences behavior and health. Human and animal studies
have begun to identify the brain regions that are activated during the formation of social …

Mood and anxiety disorders are prevalent conditions affecting one out of four people during
lifetime. The development of high validity animal models to study these disorders has been a …

This study investigated effects of different forms of environmental enrichment on behavioral,
endocrinological, and immunological parameters in male mice. For this purpose, animals of …

Social status is a critical factor determining health outcomes in human and nonhuman social
species. In social hierarchies with reproductive skew, individuals compete to monopolize …

During pandemics, governments take drastic actions to prevent the spreading of the
disease, as seen during the present COVID-19 crisis. Sanctions of lockdown, social …

The link between social factors, stress and health has been the focus of many
interdisciplinary studies mostly because:(i) animals, including humans, often live in …

Social isolation and lack of social support have deleterious effects on health, thus being
regarded as one of the most relevant causes of diseases in human and other mammalian …

This article is part of a Special Issue (“Estradiol and cognition”). Estrogens have repeatedly
been shown to influence a wide array of social behaviors, which in rodents are …