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  1. 🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.

    Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.

    πŸ‘‰ futurity.org/danger-mice-frien

    #neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science

  2. 🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.

    Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.

    πŸ‘‰ futurity.org/danger-mice-frien

    #neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science

  3. 🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.

    Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.

    πŸ‘‰ futurity.org/danger-mice-frien

    #neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science

  4. 🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.

    Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.

    πŸ‘‰ futurity.org/danger-mice-frien

    #neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science

  5. 🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.

    Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.

    πŸ‘‰ futurity.org/danger-mice-frien

    #neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science