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CELL REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 292-305Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.12.014
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- National Institute of Mental Health [1R01MH096946-01]
- Simons Foundation for Autism Research grants [204719, 253447]
- NARSAD Young Investigator Grant
- Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Understanding how brain activation mediates behaviors is a central goal of systems neuroscience. Here, we apply an automated method for mapping brain activation in the mouse in order to probe how sex-specific social behaviors are represented in the male brain. Our method uses the immediate-early-gene c-fos, a marker of neuronal activation, visualized by serial two-photon tomography: the c-fos-GFP+ neurons are computationally detected, their distribution is registered to a reference brain and a brain atlas, and their numbers are analyzed by statistical tests. Our results reveal distinct and shared female and male interaction-evoked patterns of male brain activation representing sex discrimination and social recognition. We also identify brain regions whose degree of activity correlates to specific features of social behaviors and estimate the total numbers and the densities of activated neurons per brain areas. Our study opens the door to automated screening of behavior-evoked brain activation in the mouse.
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