{
  "id": 899915,
  "title": "Oxytocin receptor Gαi signaling drives valence reassignment to facilitate reversal of social trauma-induced avoidance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/oxytocin-receptor-g-i-signaling-drives-valence-reassignment-to",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743644v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}