Navigating Monogamy: Nonapeptide Sensitivity in a Memory Neural Circuit May Shape Social Behavior and Mating Decisions

A preference to bond? Male prairie voles form pair bonds even in the presence of multiple receptive females

(2016) Tomica D. Blocker et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Placing memories in context: Hippocampal representations promote retrieval of appropriate memories

(2016) David A. Bulkin et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Trichostatin A (TSA) facilitates formation of partner preference in male prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster )

(2016) F. Duclot et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Oxytocin (OT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) act on OT receptors and not AVP V1a receptors to enhance social recognition in adult Syrian hamsters ( Mesocricetus auratus )

(2016) Zhimin Song et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Species, sex and individual differences in the vasotocin/vasopressin system: Relationship to neurochemical signaling in the social behavior neural network

(2015) H. Elliott Albers   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Why do lesions in the rodent anterior thalamic nuclei cause such severe spatial deficits?

(2015) John P. Aggleton et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain

(2015) M. Okhovat et al.   SCIENCE

RNAi knockdown of oxytocin receptor in the nucleus accumbens inhibits social attachment and parental care in monogamous female prairie voles

(2015) Alaine C. Keebaugh et al.   Social Neuroscience

The Nucleus Accumbens: A Comprehensive Review

(2015) Sanjay Salgado et al.   STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

Cues, context, and long-term memory: the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial cognition

(2014) Adam M. P. Miller et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Functional organization of the hippocampal longitudinal axis

(2014) Bryan A. Strange et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Direct Reactivation of a Coherent Neocortical Memory of Context

(2014) Kiriana K. Cowansage et al.   NEURON

The form and function of hippocampal context representations

(2014) David M. Smith et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Encoding and storage of spatial information in the retrosplenial cortex

(2014) R. Czajkowski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxytocin induces social communication by activating arginine-vasopressin V1a receptors and not oxytocin receptors

(2014) Zhimin Song et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Social bonding: regulation by neuropeptides

(2014) Claudia Lieberwirth et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Social recognition is context dependent in single male prairie voles

(2013) Da-Jiang Zheng et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Oxytocin Pathways and the Evolution of Human Behavior

(2013) C. Sue Carter   Annual Review of Psychology

Female alternative mating tactics, reproductive success and nonapeptide receptor expression in the social decision-making network

(2013) Da-Jiang Zheng et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

On the role of retrosplenial cortex in long-lasting memory storage

(2013) Cynthia Katche et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Social dynamics and dispersal in free-living prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

(2013) Betty McGuire et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Oxytocin enhances hippocampal spike transmission by modulating fast-spiking interneurons

(2013) Scott F. Owen et al.   NATURE

Histone deacetylase inhibitors facilitate partner preference formation in female prairie voles

(2013) Hui Wang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Increased brain and plasma oxytocin after nasal and peripheral administration in rats and mice

(2013) Inga D. Neumann et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Toward a self-wired active reconstruction of the hippocampal trisynaptic loop: DG-CA3

(2013) Gregory J. Brewer et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Spatial navigation strategies in Peromyscus: a comparative study

(2012) Eldin Jašarević et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The anterior thalamus is critical for overcoming interference in a context-dependent odor discrimination task.

(2012) L. Matthew Law et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Monogamous and Promiscuous Rodent Species Exhibit Discrete Variation in the Size of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2012) Marcy A. Kingsbury et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

A polymorphic indel containing the RS3 microsatellite in the 5′ flanking region of the vasopressin V1a receptor gene is associated with chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) personality

(2012) W. D. Hopkins et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Reward circuitry dysfunction in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes: animal models and clinical findings

(2012) Gabriel S Dichter et al.   Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

New neurons for 'survival of the fittest'

(2012) Gerd Kempermann   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Male Superiority in Spatial Navigation: Adaptation or Side Effect?

(2012) Edward K. Clint et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network

(2012) L. A. O'Connell et al.   SCIENCE

Interplay of oxytocin, vasopressin, and sex hormones in the regulation of social recognition.

(2011) Christopher S. Gabor et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Complimentary roles of the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex in behavioral context discrimination

(2011) David M. Smith et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Vasotocin neurons and septal V1a-like receptors potently modulate songbird flocking and responses to novelty

(2011) Aubrey M. Kelly et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The vasopressin 1b receptor and the neural regulation of social behavior

(2011) Erica L. Stevenson et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The regulation of social recognition, social communication and aggression: Vasopressin in the social behavior neural network

(2011) H. Elliott Albers   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The Vertebrate mesolimbic reward system and social behavior network: A comparative synthesis

(2011) Lauren A. O'Connell et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Anterior thalamic lesions alter both hippocampal-dependent behavior and hippocampal acetylcholine release in the rat

(2011) L. M. Savage et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Unraveling the contributions of the diencephalon to recognition memory: A review

(2011) J. P. Aggleton et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Alternative male reproductive tactics in a natural population of prairie voles Microtus ochrogaster

(2010) Betty McGuire et al.   ACTA THERIOLOGICA

Nonapeptide mechanisms of social cognition, behavior and species-specific social systems

(2010) James L Goodson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Genes, hormones, and circuits: An integrative approach to study the evolution of social behavior

(2010) Lauren A. O’Connell et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The Challenge of Translation in Social Neuroscience: A Review of Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Affiliative Behavior

(2010) Thomas R. Insel   NEURON

Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures?

(2010) Michael S. Fanselow et al.   NEURON

Brain reward circuitry beyond the mesolimbic dopamine system: A neurobiological theory

(2010) Satoshi Ikemoto   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Is bigger always better? A critical appraisal of the use of volumetric analysis in the study of the hippocampus

(2010) T. C. Roth et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social investigation in a memory task relates to natural variation in septal expression of oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).

(2009) Alexander G. Ophir et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior

(2009) Markus Heinrichs et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Density in the Nucleus Accumbens Has Differential Effects on Affiliative Behaviors in Monogamous and Polygamous Voles

(2009) H. E. Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

What does the retrosplenial cortex do?

(2009) Seralynne D. Vann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neurocircuitry of Addiction

(2009) George F Koob et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Mesotocin and Nonapeptide Receptors Promote Estrildid Flocking Behavior

(2009) J. L. Goodson et al.   SCIENCE

The prairie vole: an emerging model organism for understanding the social brain

(2009) Lisa A. McGraw et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Social but not genetic monogamy is associated with greater breeding success in prairie voles

(2008) Alexander G. Ophir et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Involvement of the retrosplenial cortex in processing multiple conditioned stimuli.

(2008) Christopher S. Keene et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Neurotoxic lesions of retrosplenial cortex disrupt signaled and unsignaled contextual fear conditioning.

(2008) Christopher S. Keene et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Evolution of a behavior-linked microsatellite-containing element in the 5' flanking region of the primate AVPR1A gene

(2008) Zoe R Donaldson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Social reward-conditioned place preference: A model revealing an interaction between cocaine and social context rewards in rats

(2008) Kenneth J. Thiel et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Vasotocin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis preferentially process social information and exhibit properties that dichotomize courting and non-courting phenotypes

(2008) James L. Goodson et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Damage to the retrosplenial cortex produces specific impairments in spatial working memory

(2008) Christopher S. Keene et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Variation in neural V1aR predicts sexual fidelity and space use among male prairie voles in semi-natural settings

(2008) A. G. Ophir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1a gene (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans

(2008) H. Walum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality

(2008) Z. R. Donaldson et al.   SCIENCE