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Social Novelty Recruits a Dysfunctional Nucleus Accumbens Ensemble That Drives Social Avoidance in a Shank3-/- Autism Model
Oakleigh M. Folkes, Meaghan Donahue, Rafael E. Perez…·Yong-Hui Jiang
This study identifies a dysfunctional nucleus accumbens ensemble in Shank3-/- mice that drives social avoidance by hyperresponding to social novelty.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.04.730003