Social buffering of fear inhibition in adolescent rats

青春期是一个重要的时期，人们学会管理与压力相关的情绪，如恐惧。同伴可以帮助或阻碍个人调节恐惧。这个项目旨在了解在青春期恐惧调节的社会缓冲是如何、何时以及为谁发生的。它使用行为学、药理学和神经学方法来探索这些问题。该项目旨在缩小人们对社会伙伴如何影响青少年基本学习和记忆过程的理解差距。该项目的预期成果包括更丰富的同龄人在发展过程中如何塑造情绪调节的知识，这将最终为改善青少年情绪调节的社会基础方法提供信息。

Adolescence is an important time when individuals learn to manage stress-related emotions like fear. Peers can help, or hinder, individuals to regulate fear. This project aims to understand how, when, and for whom social buffering of fear regulation occurs during adolescence. It uses a behavioural, pharmacological, and neural approach to explore these issues. The project aims to close the gap in understanding of how social companions affect basic learning and memory processes in an understudied population of adolescents. The expected outcomes of this project include a richer knowledge of how peers shape emotional regulation during development, which will ultimately inform social-based approaches for improving emotion regulation in youth.