Mental disorders are a significant cause of disability worldwide. They profoundly affect
individuals' well-being and impose a substantial financial burden on societies and …

Depression is associated with social risk factors, social impairments and poor social
functioning. This paper gives an overview of these social aspects using the NIMH Research …

Adverse events in early life can modulate the response to additional stressors later in life
and increase the risk of develo** psychiatric disorders. The underlying molecular …

Social interactions involve complex decision-making tasks that are shaped by dynamic,
mutual feedback between participants. An open question is whether and how emergent …

Although the hippocampus is known to be important for declarative memory, it is less clear
how hippocampal output regulates motivated behaviours, such as social aggression. Here …

In nature, both males and females engage in competitive aggressive interactions to resolve
social conflicts, yet the behavioral principles guiding such interactions and their underlying …

Different rat and mouse models are used in studies of social interactions. Simple behavioral
measures, which are commonly used in the laboratory, allow to perform relatively short …

Across species, animals organize into social dominance hierarchies that serve to decrease
aggression and facilitate survival of the group. Neuroscientists have adopted several model …

Sex differences and social context independently contribute to the development of stress-
related disorders. However, less is known about how their interplay might influence behavior …

Social status is a critical factor determining health outcomes in human and nonhuman social
species. In social hierarchies with reproductive skew, individuals compete to monopolize …