Social buffering of fear inhibition in adolescent rats

青春期是个人学会管理恐惧等与压力相关的情绪的重要时期。同龄人可以帮助或阻碍个人调节恐惧。该项目旨在了解在青春期如何、何时以及为谁提供社会缓冲的恐惧调节。它使用行为学、药理学和神经学的方法来探索这些问题。该项目旨在弥合对社交伙伴如何影响研究不足的青少年群体的基本学习和记忆过程的理解上的差距。这个项目的预期结果包括更丰富的关于同龄人如何在发展过程中形成情绪调节的知识，这最终将为改善青少年情绪调节的基于社会的方法提供信息。

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.