The Unexpected Effects of Beneficial and Adverse Social Experiences during Adolescence on Anxiety and Aggression and Their Modulation by Genotype.

In the DL, there was a significant main effect of social experience, with animals from the adverse condition displaying significantly less anxiety-like and more exploratory behavior compared to animals that experienced beneficial conditions: AE animals had a shorter latency to enter the light compartment [ F (1, 72) = 17.076, p < 0.001; Figure 4B , Table 2 ], entered it more often [ F (1, 72) = 12.824, p = 0.001] and furthermore showed a trend to spend more time in it [ F (1, 72) = 2.824, p = 0.097; Table 2 ].

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