Topic: behavioural decision making

An animal’s dominance status strongly affects its behavioural decision making in social contexts. While the thalamocortical circuitry involved in the establishment of male mouse social status has received much attention in the literature, it remains unclear how these representations of rank modulate downstream areas to yield distinct behavioural phenotypes. Here we report in vivo miniscope recordings from the medial preoptic area (MPOA) and the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) - two areas involved in social decision-making that show differential c-Fos expression depending on social rank. Record