The Strange Case of Aggression and the Brain

Territorial male mice are aggressive toward intruding males, but socially bonded males are not. Through manipulation of activity in a subset of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus, Yang et al. (2017) report that social and physiological factors non-linearly interact to control male aggression....

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Published in:Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2017-08, Vol.95 (4), p.734-737
Main Authors: Carvalho, Vinicius M.A., Nakahara, Thiago S., Papes, Fabio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggression
Aggression - physiology
Aggressiveness
Animals
Behavior
Behavior, Animal - physiology
Brain
Brain - physiology
Genetic engineering
Humans
Hypothalamus
Hypothalamus (ventromedial)
Laboratories
Males
Neurons
Pheromones
Physiological effects
Physiological factors
Studies
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Summary:Territorial male mice are aggressive toward intruding males, but socially bonded males are not. Through manipulation of activity in a subset of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus, Yang et al. (2017) report that social and physiological factors non-linearly interact to control male aggression. Territorial male mice are aggressive toward intruding males, but socially bonded males are not. Through manipulation of activity in a subset of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus, Yang et al. (2017) report that social and physiological factors non-linearly interact to control male aggression.
ISSN:0896-6273
1097-4199
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.041