Sex differences in neural representations of social and nonsocial reward in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Jennifer Isaac, Sonia Corbett Karkare, Hymavathy Balasubramanian, Nicholas Schappaugh, Jarildy Larimar Javier, Maha Rashid, Malavika Murugan
The paper identifies sex-dependent, non-overlapping neural representations of social and nonsocial reward in the medial prefrontal cortex that vary with internal state and are essential for reward-seeking behavior.
Nature Communications · Sep 13, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience