Why rats comfort some and shun others: Brain pathway offers clues

MedicalXpress | 五月 04, 2026

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of the brain—the insular cortex and prefrontal cortex—supports social decisions in male rats. Why did the researchers choose to assess the insular cortex and prefrontal cortex of rats?