Neurogenetics of Social Behavior Sector

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF INVESTIGATION

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Agonistic Behavior
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Behavioral, Physiological and Neurochemical Aspects of Influence of Repeated Experience of Social Victories and Defeats in Daily Social Confrontations in Male Mice of Different Strains

• Neurochemical mechanisms of aggressive and submissive behavior in male mice.
• Chronic social conflicts and gonadal functions.
• Chronic social conflicts and immune responsiveness.
• Monoaminergic mechanisms of neurogenic gastric damage induced by social stress in inbred mice.

The Modeling and Pharmacological Corrections of Psychopathologies, Developing Under Influence of Chronic Social Conflicts in the Experiments:

• Behavioral and brain monoaminergic mechanisms of natural and pathological anxiety.
• Brain monoaminergic systems during the development of experimental anxious depression induced by social confrontations (DISC).
• Neurophysiological basis of genetic predisposition to development of depression.
• Behavioral and neurochemical aspects of affective and learned aggression.
• Pharmacological correction of experimental psychopathologies.
• Features of psychoemotional states and its pharamcological corrections in females.