Social trauma engages lateral septum circuitry to occlude social reward

In humans, traumatic social experiences can contribute to psychiatric disorders 1 . It is suggested that social trauma impairs brain reward function such that social behaviour is no longer rewarding, leading to severe social avoidance 2,3 . In rodents, the chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) model has been used to understand the neurobiology underlying stress susceptibility versus resilience following social trauma, yet little is known regarding...