The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-1995 school year. Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships,...

This ongoing prospective cohort study examines a wide range of individual, social and structural factors as predictors of risk and resilience for behavioral outcomes (e.g., substance use and sexual activity), mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety) and biological outcomes (e.g., HIV seroconversion, viral and bacterial sexually transmitted infections) in a sample of emerging adult men based...

The Gallup Poll Social Series is a set of public opinion surveys designed to monitor U.S. adults' (aged 18 and up) views on numerous social, economic, and political topics. The topics are arranged thematically across 12 surveys. Gallup administers these surveys during the same month every year and includes the survey's core trend questions in the same order each administration. Using this consistent...

This dataset contains the following: video recordings of animal behaviors, RNA-seq analysis, in vitro recordings, and fiber photometry recordings for a study on the regulation by the posterior amygdala (PA) of sexual and aggressive behaviors in male mice. The video recordings are of all animal behaviors from two synchronized cameras on the side and top of the cage with frame by frame behavioral annotation...

Oxytocin, a hormone released by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), enables neuroplasticity in the auditory cortex for maternal recognition of pup distress. This study continuously monitored the behavior of female virgin mice co-housed with an experienced mother and litter. To examine the behavioral events and neural activity patterns that lead to maternal behavior in virgin female mice,...

Ventrolateral area is known as a critical locus for the generation of conspecific aggression, where neurons responding during multiple phases of a social interaction. However, how these neurons organize aggressive action is still unknown. This study found that a hypothalamic-midbrain circuit that represents hierarchically organized signals during aggression. For this study, C57BL/6N, Swiss Webster,...

Social interactions strongly impact the brain and the body. However, high-resolution descriptions of these important physical interactions and their neural correlates are lacking. This study described a hardware/software system and analysis pipeline that combines 3D videography, deep learning, physical modeling, and GPU-accelerated robust optimization with automatic analysis of neuronal receptive fields...

Baby's First Years is the first randomized controlled trial in the United States to examine the causal impact of unconditional cash payments on children's early cognitive, socio-emotional, and brain development over 52 months. Researchers recruited 1,000 mothers with infants and incomes below the federal poverty line residing near study sites in New Orleans, LA, the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN and...

To investigate the impact of social buffering on pain, the study team administered mild tail shocks to infant rat pups at postnatal day (PN) 8 or 12, with or without their mothers. They hypothesized that repeated exposure to shock would alter their inflammatory pain responses as adults when experienced between PN5 and 9 (pain sensitive period prior to functional maturation of the amygdala), whereas...

The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study examines risk factors for heart disease among South Asians of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, and Sri Lankan descent in the United States to guide preventative measures and future treatments. Beginning in 2010, eligible South Asian participants between the ages of 40 and 80 were recruited from the San Francisco...