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From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

The gut–brain axis is a bidirectional network linking gastrointestinal function with neural circuits regulating stress, affect, and behavior. Contribute to this Research Topic and join the discussion to advance understanding in this rapidly evolving area.

AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

How can AI deepen our understanding of brain–behavior relationships and inspire models of cognition? Led by our Field Chief Editor and colleagues, this Research Topic calls for studies driving innovation in AI and behavioral neuroscience.

Sex differences in anxiety and depression

Drawing on adult rodent models of chronic stress, Drs. Bowman, Frankfurt, and Luine synthesize evidence on sex differences in anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and neural plasticity, with implications for mood disorder vulnerability — Read more.

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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

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From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

Sex differences in anxiety and depression

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nuno sousa

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Reciprocal brain–behavior interactions in gambling disorder revealed by theta cordance and Granger causality

Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress

Structurally Restricted Message-Passing within Shallow Architectures for Explainable Network-Level Brain Decoding on Small Cohorts

Coping with stress produces differential systemic and brain corticosterone patterns in female rats

Behavioral Endocrinology

Sex-specific effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on activity and blood pressure in aged offspring

Interactive impacts of social deprivation and intranasal oxytocin administration on oxytocin receptor density in prairie vole brains

Endocrine modulation of stimulant use: bidirectional interactions within the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis

A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others

The tube-plugging test: a simple assay that reveals offspring-centered defensive behavior in postpartum mice

Rethinking stress in education: cortisol and DHEA-S biomarker outcomes of a mindset intervention

Sex differences in G protein-coupled estrogen receptor-mediated mechanisms in preclinical models of anxiety and fear

Adolescent male and female rats show enhanced latent inhibition of conditioned fear compared to adult rats

Neurosteroids: a lifelong impact on brain health

Sub-chronic stress exerts partially distinct behavioral and epigenetic effects in male and female mice

Translational implications of circadian activity alterations in an experimental model of late-onset depression induced by prenatal excess of glucocorticoids

Sex differences in behavioral measures of anxiety in a recessive gene knockout (Pink1–/–) rat model of Parkinson’s disease

Sex- and reward-dependent effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards

Examination of age- and sex-related changes in protein expression within the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during withdrawal from a subchronic history of binge-drinking in C57BL/6J mice

Testosterone differentially modulates the display of agonistic behavior and dominance over opponents before and after adolescence in male Syrian hamsters

Chronic 17β-estradiol treatment improves negative valence, anhedonic profile, and social interactions in ovariectomized, middle-aged female rats

Emotion Regulation and Processing

Coping with stress produces differential systemic and brain corticosterone patterns in female rats

Clinical Expertise Shifts Psychological Distancing from Effortful Regulation to Reduced Engagement on Internally Oriented Processing during Multitasking

Distinct Orbitofrontal Circuits with Dorsal and Ventral CA1 Differentially Regulate Spatial Memory and Emotional Behaviors

Editorial: Methodological innovations and translational insights in Early Life Adversity studies

Editorial: Between emotional regulation and dysregulation: perspectives, interventions, tools and technologies for psychological well-being

Long-term consequences of prenatal saccharin exposure: evidence of sex-specific molecular programing in the prefrontal cortex and behavior of adolescent rats

The influence of trait anxiety on performance in the CatWalk test

Stable rat models in constipation with depression and anxiety: evaluation and validation

A cross-sectional study of multidimensional psychosocial stress and depression risk

Vicarious learned helplessness: a translationally relevant novel model of stress contagion elucidating sex-dependent prefrontal cortex pathology

From the lab to the real world: emotions serving morality in dyadic negotiation

Female rats adopt a safety-first strategy in a high-conflict platform mediated avoidance task

Dynamic effects of sleep deprivation on emotional behavior, circadian rhythm genes, and inflammatory infiltration in the medial prefrontal cortex

Enhanced functional connectivity between the default mode network and executive control network during flow states may facilitate creativity and emotional regulation, and may improve health outcomes

Bright light exposure reduces negative affect and modulates EEG activity in sleep-deprived and well-rested adolescents

Purkinje cell activity changes in cerebellar subregions during fear conditioning

Learning and Memory

Whole-brain cFos mapping reveals the paraventricular thalamus as a key node for stress-enhanced fear learning

A systematic review of spontaneous recovery in human fear conditioning

The thalamic nucleus reuniens orchestrates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony in memory, emotion, and disease

Psychological distress, digital behavioral risks, and physical activity as predictors of subjective wellbeing: a machine learning study in a large sample of community-dwelling adults

Sex Differences in Memory Impairments After Traumatic Brain Injury: Mechanisms and Models

Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on spatial memory: A systematic review across animal and human studies

Discrete and differentiated encoding of distinct components of spatial experience occurs within the proximodistal subfields of the dorsoventral axis of the hippocampus

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

Mapping memory at scale: systems-level insights with translational and transdiagnostic relevance to fear-related disorders

Impairment of object recognition, object location and spatial working memory performance in inbred RHA vs. RLA rats

Behavioral phenotypes in aging: structured exploratory computational analysis of multi-assay behavioral data

Neural-behavioral dissociation under acute high-altitude stress: an exploratory ERP study of non-specific neural recruitment and rTMS effects

Assessing circuit function in the developing Xenopus tadpole: a survey of the behavioral toolkit and underlying neural substrates

Dawn of the dread: threatening cinematic virtual reality environments enhance general but not specific pavlovian-instrumental transfer

Transcranial alternating current stimulation improves cognitive functions in healthy subjects through modifying frontoparietal and dorsal attention networks based on personalized individual theta frequency analysis

Functional loss of PKMζ in the dorsal hippocampus potentiates the time-dependent increase in false contextual fear memory and impairs spatial recognition memory in mice

Motivation and Reward

Gut microbiota at the crossroads of cocaine use and binge eating disorders

AGED RATS HAVE SEX-DEPENDENT HYPOTHERMIC EFFECTS BUT NOT SPATIAL MEMORY IMPAIRMENTS FOLLOWING ACUTE ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

Sex differences in compulsive sexual behavior disorder

EEG-based monitoring of mental fatigue during virtual-reality motor imagery tasks

iMOSS: an integrated open-source tail suspension test platform for high-resolution immobility scoring and synchronization with neural activity