Social stress has emerged as a research front in the neurosciences, and this volume highlights recent insights in brain mechanisms and methodological advances. The topics range from the evolutionary origins of coping with social challenges to neural mechanism-driven focus on novel treatment targets. The parallel presentation of work with animal models and human subjects is bound to be useful to a broad research community.

Provides current insights into brain mechanisms and methodological advances Assembles innovative work on mechanisms of coping with social challenges Sheds light on novel treatment targets

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Part I Preclinical Research: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Social Bonds and Separation Stress in Rodents, Dogs, and Other Species.- Methods and Challenges in Investigating Sex-Specific Consequences of Social Stressors in Adolescence in Rats: Is It the Stress or the Social or the Stage of Development?- Social stress-induced neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction as a link to depression and cardiovascular disease comorbidity.- Mean Girls: Social Stress Models for Female Rodents.- Development of Mixed Anxiety/ Depression-Like State as a Consequence of Chronic Anxiety: Review of Experimental Data.- Unravelling the Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Social Defeat Stress on Use of Drugs of Abuse.- Social Stress and Aggression in Murine Models.- More or less: glucocorticoid roles in aggression.- Neurobiological Bases of Urges for Alcohol Consumption After Social Stress.- Epigenetics of Aggression.- Part II Human Research: Early Life Stress and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence: Implications for Risk and Adaptation.- Effects of Parenting Environment on Child and Adolescent Social-Emotional Brain Function.- The Stressed Brain: Neural Underpinnings of Social Stress Processing in Humans.- Social Acts and Anticipation of Social Feedback.- Clinical Outcomes of Severe Forms of Early Social Stress.- Childhood Violence Exposure, Inflammation, and Cardiometabolic Health.- Social Support Effects on Neural Stress and Alcohol Reward Responses.- Neural Underpinnings of Social Stress in Human Addiction.