Topic: prosocial behavior

Emotional contagion, the capacity to internally simulate another's emotional state, plays a crucial role in modulating prosocial behavior. This includes rescue behaviors, wherein individuals in a safe context intervene to release a trapped conspecific from an aversive context. However, little is known about how the perceived emotional arousal of the distressed individual influences the helper's behavior and the underlying neuronal mechanisms driving prosociability. This study explores the involvement of the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC), associated with contextual learning, in emotionally charged

Empathy is vital in interpersonal and societal interactions and serves as an emotional bridge fostering pro-social, including helping behavior. The process of offering help unfolds through distinct stages, starting with empathetic responses to another individual's negative emotional state, progressing to the decision to provide assistance, and culminating in the social rewards that follow such acts. Despite years of research in humans, the neural networks recruited in different stages of prosocial behavior still remain elusive. In this study, we established single photon emission computerized

An emerging body of scientific evidence strongly supports the notion of mice exhibiting prosocial actions, such as helping and rescuing behavior. However, prior studies have primarily focused on single or pair-housed animals, leaving a gap in our understanding of how social interactions contribute to the underlying mechanisms of helping behavior. To answer this question, we have built "mice cities" to observe the social structure of mice in a group. A male and a female group of ten animals, 5 siblings and 5 non-siblings each, were placed in a large enclosure of three interconnected boxes with