Summary
Project Summary Social relationships are a key component of human health and survival and impairments in social behavior have a major impact in many psychiatric conditions. Yet despite the importance of social context to health, there remains no FDA-approved medications that target social cognition and behavior. Social context is defined by the social stimuli available to an animal, is a key mediator of behavior in rodents, and impacts social choices. Yet little is known about how neuronal circuits encode social context and choice.In rodents, circuits in ACC that project to the amygdala (ACC-
