A Neural Switch for Becoming Alpha Male (VIDEO)

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Researchers measure social dominance in mice by analyzing how much each one pushes, pushes back, retreats or remains still. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 July 2017 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Zhou at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, "History of winning remodels thalamo-PFC circuit to reinforce social dominance."

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Zhou <i>et al., Science</i> (2017)

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