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Antagonistic Control of Social versus Repetitive Self-Grooming Behaviors by Separable Amygdala Neuronal Subsets
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Animals display a range of innate social behaviors that play essential roles in survival and reproduction. While the medial amygdala (MeA) has been implicated in prototypic social behaviors such as aggression, the circuit-level mechanisms controlling such behaviors are not well understood. Using cell-type-specific functional manipulations, we find that distinct neuronal populations in the MeA control different social and asocial behaviors. A GABAergic subpopulation promotes aggression and two other social behaviors, while neighboring glutamatergic neurons promote repetitive self-grooming, an asocial behavior. Moreover, this glutamatergic subpopulation inhibits social interactions independently of its effect to promote self-grooming, while the GABAergic subpopulation inhibits self-grooming, even in a nonsocial context. These data suggest that social versus repetitive asocial behaviors are controlled in an antagonistic manner by inhibitory versus excitatory amygdala subpopulations, respectively. These findings provide a framework for understanding circuit-level mechanisms underlying opponency between innate behaviors, with implications for their perturbation in psychiatric disorders.
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“While advanced circuit mapping tools have recently been effective at identifying specific nodes critical for sex-specific behaviors like mating, parenting, and aggression (Hong et al., 2014; Wu et al., 2009), many of these techniques rely on the use of transgenic mice, which, in contrast to rats, do not engage in tertiary social play.”
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“previous work has demonstrated that activation of GABAergic rather than glutamatergic neurons in the MeA is associated with onset of male aggression [82].”
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“The MeA has been subdivided into distinct functional regions along the anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral axes, with the medial amygdala posterodorsal (MeApd) primarily involved in conspecific social behaviors such as mating and aggression (Choi et al., 2005; Hong et al., 2014).”
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“The MeApd comprises GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons at an approximate ratio of 2:1, with GABAergic neurons representing the major population of projection neurons driving social responses (Choi et al., 2005; Hong et al., 2014; Keshavarzi et al., 2014).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hong, W., Kim, D.-W., & Anderson, D. J.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Anderson, David J.
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-09
- Volume
- 158
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1348-1361
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4167378
- OpenAlex
- W2065254519
- Cited by
- 405
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 15.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Simons Foundation
- California Institute of Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH085082, MH070053, R01MH085082, R01MH070053)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- medial amygdala, social behavior, aggression, GABAergic neurons, glutamatergic neurons, neuronal subpopulations, asocial behavior
- MeSH terms
- Aggression, Amygdala, Animals, Female, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Grooming, Male, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neurons, Social Behavior, Mice, In Vitro Techniques
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