Maya M. Opendak

The paper investigates how varying levels of early-life adversity affect caregiving behaviors and neural correlates of infant social behavior in mice.

This study identifies bile acid signaling as a pathway linking early caregiving adversity to social behavior, showing that CDCA supplementation can rescue social deficits in a rat model.

This study shows that the lateral habenula in developing rats integrates age and experience to influence social behavior under threat, with early caregiving adversity disrupting its function and social approach behavior.

The paper shows that social interactions between mother mice and virgin mice activate oxytocin neurons, enabling the virgins to acquire maternal behavior through social transmission.

The paper shows that adverse caregiving in infancy reduces neural processing of the mother in rats, with potential implications for later-life pathology.