An appetite for aggressive behavior? Female rats, too, derive reward from winning aggressive interactions

Abstract While aggression is an adaptive behavior mostly triggered by competition for resources, it can also in and of itself be rewarding. Based on the common notion that female rats are not aggressive, much of aggression research has been centered around males, leading to a gap in the understandin...

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Main Authors: Stina Börchers, Jil Carl, Katharina Schormair, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Christian E. Edvardsson, Elisabeth Jerlhag, Karolina P. Skibicka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2023-10-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02608-x