Early life adversity enhances prosocial helping towards a cagemate and reshapes brain-wide neural activity and network organization
Early life adversity (ELA) is linked to changes in social behavior and emotional regulation and to increased risk for developing mood and conduct disorders. However, the effects of ELA on empathy and its associated behaviors, including prosocial helping, remain poorly understood. Animal models of ELA provide a tractable way to study how early rearing conditions impact prosocial behavior and…
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