J. Rodriguez Parkitna

Prosocial behavior, social reward and affective state discrimination in adult male and female mice

This study finds that female mice show increased prosocial choices over time, while both sexes show similar social reward sensitivity and affective state discrimination.

Establishment of a social conditioned place preference paradigm for the study of social reward in female mice

This study refines the social conditioned place preference paradigm to show that social reward in adult female mice depends on familiarity with interaction partners.

Time elapsed between choices in a probabilistic task correlates with repeating the same decision.

The study shows that the time since a decision affects the likelihood of repeating it in mice, independent of previous outcomes.

Ablation of NMDA receptors in dopamine neurons disrupts attribution of incentive salience to reward-paired stimuli

This study shows that NMDA receptor ablation in dopamine neurons impairs the attribution of incentive salience to reward-paired stimuli in mice.