Alexa H. Veenema

This study investigates how oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus and oxytocin signaling in the nucleus accumbens regulate sex-specific social play behavior in juvenile rats.

This study investigates how the nucleus accumbens to ventral pallidum pathway regulates social play behavior in juvenile rats, revealing sex-specific mechanisms involving NAc inhibition and VP activation.

This study examines how playmate familiarity and social isolation affect social play behavior in three rat strains, revealing strain-specific differences in play engagement and tactics.

This study shows that vasopressin in the lateral septum regulates social play behavior differently in male and female rats through glutamate, not GABA, with no sex differences in V1aR-expressing cell types.

This study investigates sex differences in the vasopressin system of the ventral pallidum and their association with juvenile social play behavior in rats.

The paper evaluates how social and food preferences vary in Wistar rats and C57BL/6J mice under different conditions, finding differences in baseline preferences and responses to deprivation.

This study shows that the orexin/hypocretin system modulates social play behavior in juvenile rats by affecting ORX-A neuron activity and ORX-1 receptor function.