Stress Coping Style Alters Functional Brain Network Activity to Acute Stressor.

ABSTRACT: Consistent individual differences in behavior (e.g., personality types, stress coping styles) are a common occurrence across animal taxa. One hypothesis poses that the resulting constraints for within-individual behavioral variation may also lead to constraints for the evolution of behavior. With stress coping styles seen across taxa, it suggests a common underlying proximate mechanism. In this study we investigated neural activity patterns across the brain by quantifying immediate early gene expression in individuals with alternative stress coping styles in response to an acute stressor in zebrafish (Danio rerio). While immediate early gene expression levels of individual brain regions in the aversive brain network were similar across groups, functional network activity differed. T

SUBMITTER: Corcoran J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12714021 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature