Sexual and social experience is associated with different patterns of behavior and neural activation in male prairie voles

Brain Research

Volumn 767, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-332

  Wang, Zuoxin ^a   Hulihan, Terrence J ^a   Insel, Thomas R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Amygdala; Lateral septum; Monogamy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOLE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030828932     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00617-3     Document Type: Article

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