Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal

This study shows that early life adversity increases prosocial helping behavior in rats and is associated with changes in brain-wide neural activity and network organization.

The paper identifies behavioral, neural, and molecular differences between rats that help and those that do not in a distress test, linking prosocial behavior to affiliative behavior and oxytocin receptor expression.

The paper identifies brain regions and neural networks involved in prosocial behavior in rats using c-Fos analysis and receptor mapping.

Brainways automates registration, quantification, and network analysis of brain activity from fluorescence images, improving accuracy and efficiency in studying neural circuits.

The paper shows that adolescent rats help both ingroup and outgroup members, while adults show ingroup bias, with neural activity differences in brain regions like the hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex.

This study shows that cross-fostered rats display reduced movement and approach behavior toward trapped rats, and trapped rats exposed to these rats show decreased exploratory behavior, suggesting a model of social rejection.

This study shows that anxiolytic treatment reduces helping behavior in rats, suggesting affective responses are crucial for pro-social actions.