Chapter title |
Conspecific Interactions in Adult Laboratory Rodents: Friends or Foes?
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Chapter number | 428 |
Book title |
Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans
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Published in |
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, May 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/7854_2015_428 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-947427-4, 978-3-31-947429-8
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Authors |
Lukas, Michael, de Jong, Trynke R, Michael Lukas, Trynke R. de Jong |
Abstract |
Interactions between adult conspecifics, including sexual behaviors, affiliation, and aggression are crucial for the well-being, survival, and reproduction of mammals. This holds true for any mammalian species, but certainly for humans: An inability to optimally navigate the social system can have a strong negative impact on physical and mental health. Translational rodent models have been used for decades to unravel the neural pathways and substrates involved in normal and abnormal conspecific interactions. Researchers in the field of translational social neuroscience face a double challenge: Not only do they need to pay considerable attention to the behavioral ecology of their model species or their ancestors, they also have to expect a relatively large variability in behavior and adjust their experimental design accordingly. In this chapter, we will lay out traditional and novel rodent models and paradigms to study sexual, affiliative, and aggressive interactions among adult conspecifics. We will discuss the merits and main findings and briefly consider the most promising novel directions. Finally, we review the modulatory involvement of two major players in mammal social interaction: the central oxytocin and vasopressin system. |
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