ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Regulation of prosocial and cognitive behaviors along the dorsoventral hippocampal axis
Prosociality—the act of assisting others—is essential for survival across species. It encompasses key cognitive and emotional components, including empathic responses to distress, cognitive problem-solving for assessing needs, and the willingness to take risks to help. However, neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and psychopathy are characterized by intact or enhanced cognitive abilities, yet they display significant deficits in prosocial behavior. This raises the question: what neurobiological mechanisms underlie this phenomenon? The hippocampus, with its functional differentiation along the dorsoventral axis, offers an ideal framework for investigation. The dorsal hippocampus (dHC)…
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