The delivery of genes to the central nervous system (CNS) has been a persistent challenge
due to various biological barriers. The blood-brain barrier (BBB), in particular, hampers the …

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 …

Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have
used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two …

Oxytocin is a versatile neuropeptide that modulates many different forms of social behavior.
Recent hypotheses pose that oxytocin enhances the salience of rewarding and aversive …

The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin is best known for its prosocial behavioral effects.
However, the precise anatomical and cellular targets for oxytocin in the cortex during social …

Despite the prevalence of large group-living in the animal kingdom, we know surprisingly
little about how the brain facilitates grou** behavior, particularly in mammals. In this brief …