Individual differences in volitional social motivation in male and female mice following social stress.
Jovana S. Navarrete, Kevin N. Schneider, Briana M. Smith, Nastacia L. Goodwin, Yizhe Y. Zhang, Ethan Gross, Valerie S. Tsai, Mitra Heshmati, Sam A. Golden
The paper introduces an operant social stress procedure to study stress-induced changes in social motivation in male and female mice, finding sex-specific behavioral responses and introducing a social index score to quantify individual differences.
bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience