| Title: | Social modulation of fear: Facilitation vs buffering |
| Address: | "Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia. School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1601-183X (Electronic) 1601-1848 (Print) 1601-183X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Social behaviors largely constitute mutual exchanges of social cues and the responses to them. The adaptive response also requires proper interpretation of the current context. In fear behaviors, social signals have bidirectional effects-some cues elicit or enhance fear whereas other suppress or buffer it. Studies on the social facilitation and social buffering of fear provide evidence of competition between social cues of opposing meanings. Co-expression of opposing cues by the same animal may explain the contradicting outcomes from the interaction between naive and frightened conspecifics, which reflect the fine balance between fear facilitation and buffering. The neuronal mechanisms that determine that balance provide an exciting target for future studies to probe the brain circuits underlying social modulation of emotional behaviors" |
| Keywords: | "Adaptation, Psychological/*physiology Animals Brain/physiology Fear/*physiology/psychology Humans *Social Behavior alarm pheromone appeasing pheromone avoidance observational fear social buffering;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineMorozov, Alexei Ito, Wataru eng R21 MH107970/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ R21 MH112093/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ R21MH107970/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Review England 2018/06/14 Genes Brain Behav. 2019 Jan; 18(1):e12491. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12491. Epub 2018 Jul 3" |
