This article is part of a Special Issue “Energy Balance”. Seasonal modulation of
glucocorticoids plays an important role in supporting critical life-history events, and probably …

Background The importance of fathers' engagement in care and its critical role in the
offspring's cognitive and emotional development is now well established. Yet, little is known …

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) plays an important role in cardiovascular diseases including stress
cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, diabetic cardiomyopathy …

Background Pair bonding with a reproductive partner is rare among mammals but is an
important feature of human social behavior. Decades of research on monogamous prairie …

Day‐active tree shrews are promising animals as research models for a variety of human
disorders. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) modulates many behaviors in vertebrates. Here we …

Abstract The High Drinking in the Dark (HDID) mice have been selectively bred for drinking
to intoxicating blood alcohol levels and represent a genetic model of risk for binge-like …

The transition between the breeding and nonbreeding states is often marked by a shift in
energy balance. Despite this well‐known shift in energy balance, little work has explored …

Abstract Both Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and the dorsal hippocampus have consistently been
found to regulate anxiety-related behaviours in both humans and animals. However …

Social relationships and alcohol (ethanol) drinking have complex effects on each other. In
one direction of these effects, social situations can affect alcohol intake patterns and …