Shaping the development of complex social behavior

Play fighting and the development of the social brain: The rat’s tale

(2023) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The long-lasting shadow of litter size in rodents: litter size is an underreported variable that strongly determines adult physiology

(2023) Marcela Parra-Vargas et al.   Molecular Metabolism

Advancing social behavioral neuroscience by integrating ethology and comparative psychology methods through machine learning

(2023) Joeri Bordes et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Father’s care uniquely influences male neurodevelopment

(2023) Joshua S. Danoff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An overview of the currency and usefulness of behavioral tests used from past to present to assess anxiety, social behavior and depression in rats and mice

(2022) Burcu Acikgoz et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Sex-specific effects of neonatal paternal deprivation on microglial cell density in adult California mouse (Peromyscus californicus) dentate gyrus

(2022) Farrah N. Madison et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

The facets of olfactory learning

(2022) Janine K. Reinert et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Environmental enrichment: dissociated effects between physical activity and changing environmental complexity on anxiety and neurogenesis in adult male Balb/C mice.

(2022) Gerardo Bernabé Ramírez-Rodríguez et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Atypical play experiences in the juvenile period has an impact on the development of the medial prefrontal cortex in both male and female rats

(2022) R.A. Stark et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Restoring Age-Related Cognitive Decline through Environmental Enrichment: A Transcriptomic Approach

(2022) Silvio Schmidt et al.   Cells

A nutty idea: Exploring a novel method using a hazelnut cocoa spread to temporarily increase maternal care behavior within a rat litter

(2021) Chelsea L. Roberge et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Acquisition of innate odor preference depends on spontaneous and experiential activities during critical period

(2021) Qiang Qiu et al.   eLife

Early Paternal Retrieval Experience Influences the Degree of Maternal Retrieval Behavior in Adult California Mice Offspring

(2021) A.B. Leithead et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Quality of early-life maternal care predicts empathy-like behavior in adult male rats: Linking empathy to BDNF gene expression in associated brain regions

(2021) Ehsan Asadi et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Transmission of paternal retrieval behavior from fathers to sons in a biparental rodent

(2021) Elizabeth A. Becker et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Compositional variation in early‐life parenting structures alters oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor development in prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster )

(2021) Forrest D. Rogers et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Natural variation in the oxytocin receptor gene and rearing interact to influence reproductive and nonreproductive social behavior and receptor binding

(2021) Todd H. Ahern et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Using the ‘stranger test’ to assess social competency in adult female Long Evans rats reared with a Fischer 344 partner

(2021) Rachel A. Stark et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The oxytocin system and early‐life experience‐dependent plastic changes

(2021) Tatsushi Onaka et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Environmental enrichment and intranasal oxytocin administration reverse maternal separation-induced impairments of prosocial choice behavior

(2021) Sara Joushi et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Early postnatal gene expression in the developing neocortex of prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster ) is related to parental rearing style

(2020) Riley T. Bottom et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Maternal care of heterozygous Dopamine Receptor D4 knockout mice: Differential susceptibility to early‐life rearing conditions

(2020) Jelle Knop et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Stress in groups: Lessons from non-traditional rodent species and housing models

(2020) Annaliese K. Beery et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Social Behavior Is Modulated by Valence-Encoding mPFC-Amygdala Sub-circuitry

(2020) Wen-Chin Huang et al.   Cell Reports

Not all mice are alike: Mixed-strain housing alters social behaviour

(2020) Carina Bodden et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Defining the relationship between maternal care behavior and sensory development in Wistar rats: Auditory periphery development, eye opening and brain gene expression

(2020) Jingyun Qiu et al.   PLoS One

Social dominance mediates behavioral adaptation to chronic stress in a sex-specific manner

(2020) Stoyo Karamihalev et al.   eLife

Access to a high resource environment protects against accelerated maturation following early life stress: A translational animal model of high, medium and low security settings

(2019) Arielle R. Strzelewicz et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Post-weaning Social Isolation in Males and Females

(2019) Deena M. Walker et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Increased anxiety and decreased sociability induced by paternal deprivation involve the PVN-PrL OTergic pathway

(2019) Zhixiong He et al.   eLife

Development of social play in hamsters: Sex differences and their possible functions

(2019) Steven C. Kyle et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

A Novel Neurobehavioral Framework of the Effects of Positive Early Postnatal Experience on Incentive and Consummatory Reward Sensitivity

(2019) Fu Yu   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

How Early Life Stress Impact Maternal Care: A Systematic Review of Rodent Studies

(2019) Rodrigo Orso et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Revisiting paternal absence: Female alloparental replacement of fathers recovers partner preference formation in female, but not male prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster )

(2019) Forrest Dylan Rogers et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Temporal microstructure of dyadic social behavior during relationship formation in mice

(2019) Won Lee et al.   PLoS One

The effects of early life stress on reward processing

(2018) Andrew M. Novick et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Social Behavior

(2018) Patrick Chen et al.   NEURON

A Systematic Look at Environmental Modulation and Its Impact in Brain Development

(2018) Alessandro Sale   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Enduring Effects of Paternal Deprivation in California Mice (Peromyscus californicus): Behavioral Dysfunction and Sex-Dependent Alterations in Hippocampal New Cell Survival

(2018) Erica R. Glasper et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Pre-weaning paternal deprivation impairs social recognition and alters hippocampal neurogenesis and spine density in adult mandarin voles

(2018) Zhixiong He et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Enriched Environment Exposure Enhances Social Interactions and Oxytocin Responsiveness in Male Long-Evans Rats

(2018) Steven Neal et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Ecological validity of social interaction tests in rats and mice

(2018) Kacper Kondrakiewicz et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Dynamic changes in social dominance and mPOA GnRH expression in male mice following social opportunity

(2017) Cait M. Williamson et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis

(2017) Frans B. M. de Waal et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Social Learning Requires Plasticity Enhanced by Fluoxetine Through Prefrontal Bdnf-TrkB Signaling to Limit Aggression Induced by Post-Weaning Social Isolation

(2017) Éva Mikics et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Paternal deprivation affects social behaviors and neurochemical systems in the offspring of socially monogamous prairie voles

(2017) Manal Tabbaa et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Cross-fostering: Elucidating the effects of gene×environment interactions on phenotypic development

(2017) Richard McCarty   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Chronic early life stress induced by limited bedding and nesting (LBN) material in rodents: critical considerations of methodology, outcomes and translational potential

(2017) Claire-Dominique Walker et al.   STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS

Juvenile social experience and differential age-related changes in the dendritic morphologies of subareas of the prefrontal cortex in rats

(2017) Brett T. Himmler et al.   SYNAPSE

Temporal dynamics of social hierarchy formation and maintenance in male mice

(2016) Cait M. Williamson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social play in juvenile hamsters alters dendritic morphology in the medial prefrontal cortex and attenuates effects of social stress in adulthood.

(2016) Cody A. Burleson et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Exploration in a dispersal task: Effects of early experience and correlation with other behaviors in prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster )

(2016) Rocío Arias del Razo et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Temporal pairwise-correlation analysis provides empirical support for attention hierarchies in mice

(2016) James P. Curley   Biology Letters

The neurobiological causes and effects of alloparenting

(2016) William M. Kenkel et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Subcaste differences in neural activation suggest a prosocial role for oxytocin in eusocial naked mole-rats

(2016) Georgia A. Hathaway et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Fathering in rodents: Neurobiological substrates and consequences for offspring

(2016) Karen L. Bales et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward

(2016) Sam A. Golden et al.   NATURE

Cross-Fostering of Male Mice Subtly Affects Female Olfactory Preferences

(2016) Ying-Juan Liu et al.   PLoS One

Oxytocin-dependent consolation behavior in rodents

(2016) J. P. Burkett et al.   SCIENCE

Adverse Social Experiences in Adolescent Rats Result in Enduring Effects on Social Competence, Pain Sensitivity and Endocannabinoid Signaling

(2016) Peggy Schneider et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Early Social Enrichment Improves Social Motivation and Skills in a Monogenic Mouse Model of Autism, theOprm1−/−Mouse

(2016) Luciana Garbugino et al.   NEURAL PLASTICITY

Maternal Style Selectively Shapes Amygdalar Development and Social Behavior in Rats Genetically Prone to High Anxiety

(2015) Joshua L. Cohen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Cross-fostering differentially affects ADHD-related behaviors in spontaneously hypertensive rats

(2015) Angela C. Gauthier et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Postnatal maternal care predicts divergent weaning strategies and the development of social behavior

(2015) B. Franks et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Differential effects of social and physical environmental enrichment on brain plasticity, cognition, and ultrasonic communication in rats

(2015) Juan C. Brenes et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Individual differences in cortical connections of somatosensory cortex are associated with parental rearing style in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2015) Adele M.H. Seelke et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Communal nesting exerts epigenetic influences on affective and social behaviors in rats selectively bred for an infantile trait

(2015) Ashley Rae Martinez et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

A Social Network Approach Reveals Associations between Mouse Social Dominance and Brain Gene Expression

(2015) Nina So et al.   PLoS One

Environmental enrichment models a naturalistic form of maternal separation and shapes the anxiety response patterns of offspring

(2015) E.J. Connors et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Social scaffolding of human amygdala-mPFCcircuit development

(2015) Nim Tottenham   Social Neuroscience

Intergenerational transmission of alloparental behavior and oxytocin and vasopressin receptor distribution in the prairie vole

(2015) Allison M. Perkeybile et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Environmental enrichment mitigates the sex-specific effects of gestational inflammation on social engagement and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis-feedback system

(2014) E.J. Connors et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Effects of maternal care on the development of midbrain dopamine pathways and reward-directed behavior in female offspring

(2014) Catherine Jensen Peña et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Paternal Influences on Offspring Development: Behavioural and Epigenetic Pathways

(2014) K. Braun et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Early Paternal Deprivation Alters Levels of Hippocampal Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Glucocorticoid Receptor and Serum Corticosterone and Adrenocorticotropin in a Sex-Specific Way in Socially Monogamous Mandarin Voles

(2014) Ruiyong Wu et al.   NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice

(2014) Akari Asaba et al.   PLoS One

Environmental enrichment extends ocular dominance plasticity into adulthood and protects from stroke-induced impairments of plasticity

(2014) F. Greifzu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social bonding: regulation by neuropeptides

(2014) Claudia Lieberwirth et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Pairmate-dependent pup retrieval as parental behavior in male mice

(2014) Mingkun Liang et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Father Absence in the Monogamous California Mouse Impairs Social Behavior and Modifies Dopamine and Glutamate Synapses in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2013) F. R. Bambico et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Natural variation in maternal care shapes adult social behavior in rats

(2013) Emily J. Starr-Phillips et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Not all stressors are equal: Early social enrichment favors resilience to social but not physical stress in male mice

(2013) Igor Branchi et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Neonatal paternal deprivation impairs social recognition and alters levels of oxytocin and estrogen receptor α mRNA expression in the MeA and NAcc, and serum oxytocin in mandarin voles

(2013) Yan Cao et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Juvenile play experience primes neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex to be more responsive to later experiences

(2013) B.T. Himmler et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behaviour: introduction and synthesis

(2013) P. M. Kappeler et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Foster Dams Rear Fighters: Strain-Specific Effects of Within-Strain Fostering on Aggressive Behavior in Male Mice

(2013) Kimberly H. Cox et al.   PLoS One

Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates

(2013) Hong-Xiang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Automated long-term tracking and social behavioural phenotyping of animal colonies within a semi-natural environment

(2013) Aharon Weissbrod et al.   Nature Communications

Natural variation in early parental care correlates with social behaviors in adolescent prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2013) Allison M. Perkeybile et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The Resident-intruder Paradigm: A Standardized Test for Aggression, Violence and Social Stress

(2013) Jaap M. Koolhaas et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Odor-enriched environment rescues long-term social memory, but does not improve olfaction in social isolated adult mice

(2012) Isabela D. Gusmão et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Chronic Intranasal Oxytocin Causes Long-Term Impairments in Partner Preference Formation in Male Prairie Voles

(2012) Karen L. Bales et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Structural Dynamics of Dendritic Spines are Influenced by an Environmental Enrichment: An In Vivo Imaging Study

(2012) Christian K.E. Jung et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Maternal care associates with play dominance rank among adult female rats

(2012) Carine I. Parent et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

The effects of neonatal paternal deprivation on pair bonding, NAcc dopamine receptor mRNA expression and serum corticosterone in mandarin voles

(2012) Peng Yu et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Is it all in the family? The effects of early social structure on neural–behavioral systems of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2012) G.D. Greenberg et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Low sociability in BTBR T+tf/J mice is independent of partner strain

(2012) Mu Yang et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Early interactions with mother and peers independently build adult social skills and shape BDNF and oxytocin receptor brain levels

(2012) Igor Branchi et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The Integrated Development of Sensory Organization

(2011) Robert Lickliter   CLINICS IN PERINATOLOGY

Toward understanding how early-life social experiences alter oxytocin- and vasopressin-regulated social behaviors

(2011) Alexa H. Veenema   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Developmental experiences and the oxytocin receptor system

(2011) Karen L. Bales et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Fostering in mice induces cardiovascular and metabolic dysfunction in adulthood

(2011) Phillippa A. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

A standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice

(2011) Sam A Golden et al.   Nature Protocols

Epigenetic modifications induced by early enrichment are associated with changes in timing of induction of BDNF expression

(2011) Igor Branchi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Within-litter variation in maternal care received by individual pups correlates with adolescent social play behavior in male rats

(2011) F.N. van Hasselt et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats

(2011) I. B.-A. Bartal et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating the rewarding nature of social interactions in laboratory animals

(2011) Viviana Trezza et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Are Behavioral Effects of Early Experience Mediated by Oxytocin?

(2011) Karen L. Bales et al.   Frontiers in Psychiatry

Intergenerational transmission of the behavioral consequences of early experience in prairie voles

(2010) Anita Iyengar Stone et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Paternal Deprivation Alters Region- and Age-Specific Interneuron Expression Patterns in the Biparental Rodent, Octodon degus

(2010) K. Braun et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Epigenetic influence of social experiences across the lifespan

(2010) Frances A. Champagne   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Parental division of labor, coordination, and the effects of family structure on parenting in monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2010) Todd H. Ahern et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Maternal separation modulates short-term behavioral and physiological indices of the stress response

(2010) Yoav Litvin et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Short- and long-term consequences of different early environmental conditions on central immunoreactive oxytocin and arginine vasopressin levels in male rats

(2010) Sadia Oreland et al.   NEUROPEPTIDES

Early life influences on emotional reactivity: Evidence that social enrichment has greater effects than handling on anxiety-like behaviors, neuroendocrine responses to stress and central BDNF levels

(2010) Francesca Cirulli et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Peri-adolescence isolation rearing alters social behavior and nociception in rats

(2010) Qingxuan Meng et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Effects of neonatal paternal deprivation or early deprivation on anxiety and social behaviors of the adults in mandarin voles

(2009) Rui Jia et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Effects of neonatal handling on social memory, social interaction, and number of oxytocin and vasopressin neurons in rats

(2009) Anelise S. Todeschin et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Immediate and enduring effects of neonatal isolation on maternal behavior in rats

(2009) Therese A. Kosten et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Early Flavor Learning and Its Impact on Later Feeding Behavior

(2009) Gary K Beauchamp et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION

Social enrichment during postnatal development induces transgenerational effects on emotional and reproductive behavior in mice

(2009) James P. Curley   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The impact of early life family structure on adult social attachment, alloparental behavior, and the neuropeptide systems regulating affiliative behaviors in the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2009) Todd H Ahern   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The influence of natural variations in maternal care on play fighting in the rat

(2008) Carine I. Parent et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Novelty Determines the Effects of Olfactory Enrichment on Memory and Neurogenesis Through Noradrenergic Mechanisms

(2008) Alexandra Veyrac et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Genes and Social Behavior

(2008) G. E. Robinson et al.   SCIENCE

The olfactory conditioning in the early postnatal period stimulated neural stem/progenitor cells in the subventricular zone and increased neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb of rats

(2007) K. So et al.   NEUROSCIENCE