Social plasticity, defined as the ability to adaptively change the expression of social behavior
according to previous experience and to social context, is a key ecological performance …

Recent research has revealed surprisingly important connections between animals’ microbiome
and social behaviour. Social interactions can affect the composition and function of the …

Chemical communication of predation risk has evolved multiple times in fish species, with
conspecific alarm substance (CAS) being the most well understood mechanism. CAS is …

The industry is increasingly relying on fish for toxicity assessment. However, current guidelines
for toxicity assessment focus on teratogenicity and mortality. From an ecotoxicological …

Current theories on the role of serotonin (5‐HT) in vertebrate defensive behavior suggest
that this monoamine increases anxiety but decreases fear, by acting at different levels of the …

Rationale The absence of ovarian hormones that is characteristic of natural and surgical
postmenopause in women is frequently related to such disorders as depression and anxiety. …

Defensive behavior is a function of specific survival circuits, the “aversive brain system”, that
are thought to be conserved across vertebrates, and involve threat detection and the …

Zebrafish have been introduced as a model organism in behavioral neuroscience and
biological psychiatry, increasing the breadth of findings using fish to study the neurobiology of …

Zebrafish anxiety-like behavior was assessed in the novel tank test after the formation of
dominant-subordinate hierarchies. 10 pairs of animals were subjected to dyadic interactions for …

Chronic alcohol use induces adaptations and toxicity that can induce symptoms of anxiety,
autonomic hyperarousal, and epileptic seizures when alcohol is removed (withdrawal …