Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Social incentivization of instrumental choice in mice requires amygdala-prelimbic cortex-nucleus accumbens connectivity

  • Henry W. Kietzman,
  • Gracy Trinoskey-Rice,
  • Sarah A. Blumenthal,
  • Jidong D. Guo,
  • Shannon L. Gourley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32388-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Social experiences influence future decision making. The authors here establish a method for quantifying this phenomenon in mice and identify an amygdalo-frontal-striatal circuit controlling how social context shapes decisions.