Ben Kantor

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.