Animal Models of Aggression: the Role of Sex and Social Experience

Aggression · Social interactions · Social experience · Mating · Winner effect · Neuronal plasticity · Social isolation · Oxytocin · Vasopressin · Sex hormones · Estrogen receptor α · Lateral septum · Nucleus accumbens · Ventromedial hypothalamus

Abstract :

[en] Rodent models have been extensively used to study the neural underpinnings of aggression. Yet, the role of some external factors such as social experiences, or internal factors such as biological sex, have only recently gained attention. This chapter discusses how the composition of the social environment and/or the lack of social contact (social isolation) in different stages of development impact the display of aggressive behavior in rodents. Additionally, this chapter covers how biological sex interacts with changes in the composition of the social environment to affect the neuronal networks of aggression. From a neurobiological point of view, this chapter focuses particularly on the participation of neuroendocrine systems such as sex hormones, oxytocin, and vasopressin and on how social interactions shape brain plasticity within those systems.

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Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

De Moura Oliveira, Vinicius Elias ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biologie de la différenciation sexuelle du cerveau

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English

Title :

Animal Models of Aggression: the Role of Sex and Social Experience

Publication date :

2023

Main work title :

Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence

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Springer International Publishing

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978-3-03-098711-4
978-3-03-098711-4

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Editorial reviewed

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-98711-4_144-1

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