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TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 103-109Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.11.006
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH056538-09, F32 MH079561-02, R01 MH077776-01A2, F32 MH079561, R21 MH082225, R01 MH056897, R01 MH077776, R01 MH056897-09, R01 MH056538, R21 MH082225-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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Unlike most mammalian species, the prairie vole is highly affiliative, forms enduring social bonds between mates and displays biparental behavior. Over two decades of research on this species has enhanced our understanding of the neurobiological basis not only of monogamy, social attachment and nurturing behaviors but also other aspects of social cognition. Because social cognitive deficits are hallmarks of many psychiatric disorders, discoveries made in prairie voles can direct novel treatment strategies for disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. With the ongoing development of molecular, genetic and genomic tools for this species, prairie voles will likely maintain their current trajectory becoming an unprecedented model organism for basic and translational research focusing on the biology of the social brain.
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