Oxytocin receptor Gαi signaling drives valence reassignment to facilitate reversal of social trauma-induced avoidance
Traumatic social experiences often generate social deficits that form the core symptom of psychopathologies like social anxiety disorder (SAD). The failure to overwrite these aversive social associations is a fundamental barrier to recovery from SAD. Using the mouse social fear conditioning (SFC) paradigm, we identify a discrete population of oxytocin receptor (OXTR)-expressing neurons in the…
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