Chong-Shun Xu

Hypothalamic-amygdala gating of caregiving-like prosocial behavior in mice

Distress sharing within an ingroup instinctively motivates caregiving-like prosocial behavior in social animals and humans, yet how aversive social stimuli paradoxically trigger such behavior remains unclear. Here, we show that stress-state matching in observer mice elicits caregiving-like behaviors (allogrooming and i...