Effect of relative social rank within a social hierarchy on neural activation in response to familiar or unfamiliar social signals.

ABSTRACT: Competent social functioning of group-living species relies on the ability of individuals to detect and utilize conspecific social cues to guide behavior. Previous studies have identified numerous brain regions involved in processing these external cues, collectively referred to as the Social Decision-Making Network. However, how the brain encodes social information with respect to an individual's social status has not been thoroughly examined. In mice, cues about an individual's identity, including social status, are conveyed through urinary proteins. In this study, we assessed the neural cFos immunoreactivity in dominant and subordinate male mice exposed to familiar and unfamiliar dominant and subordinate male urine. The posteroventral medial amygdala was the only brain region that respo

SUBMITTER: Lee W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7859216 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature