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Individual and Social Behaviors

Submit your research

Author guidelines

Editor guidelines

Peer review

Publishing fees

Journal notices

Mediterranean Neuroscience Society partner journal

Let’s meet in San Diego at Neuroscience 2025

AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

Virtual reality for neurodevelopmental disorders

Community feedback

Editors

walter adriani

nathaniel e. anderson

ricardo mario arida

valerie j bolivar

Articles

Dynamic Duos: Learning to Care as a Pair in the Biparental Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)

Refinement of the novel tank diving test: toward standardized and robust analysis of anxiety-like behavior in zebrafish

Comparison of ziprasidone and olanzapine on cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia at different stages: a prospective study in Huai’an, China

Inverted-U association between daily steps and WHO-5 in university students: non-linear modeling and robustness checks

Research Topics

Circadian rhythms, chronotypes, and adaptive decision-making: Neurobiological and behavioral perspectives

Artificial Intelligence for Behavioral Neuroscience: Unlocking mechanisms, modeling behavior, and advancing prediction

Unraveling the Neural Underpinnings of Antisocial Behavior and Deviance: Implications for Forensic Intervention and Legal Practices

Medical cannabis in the 21st century: Mechanisms, evidence, and future directions in Behavioral Neuroscience