Publications & Data
The Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network is supported by NIA R24 AG065172 "Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging." Since it was funded in 2020, this grant has made possible over 40 publications across multiple institutions, organizations, and other networks that aim to advance research on the social dimensions of aging. Most of the authors within the citations listed below are active members of the Research Network, including our Investigator team, Advisory Board, and Pilot awardees and Fellows.
2025
- Dong Z, Feng Y, Diego K, Baggetta AM, Sweis BM, Pennington ZT, Lamsifer SI, Zaki Y, Sangiuliano F, Philipsberg PA, Morales-Rodriguez D, Kircher D, Slesinger P, Shuman T, Aharoni D, Cai DJ. Simultaneous two-color imaging with a dual-channel miniscope in freely behaving mice. Sci Adv. 2025 Jul 4;11(27):eadr6470. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr6470. Epub 2025 Jul 2.
- Durand-de Cuttoli R, Issler O, Pedersen SMB, Yakubov B, Jahan N, Abid A, Kasparov S, Granizo K, Ahmed S, Russo SJ, Nestler EJ, Sweis BM. Change-of-mind neuroeconomic decision-making is modulated by LINC00473 in medial prefrontal cortex in a sex-dependent manner. Sci Adv. 2025 Jul 11. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.08.592609.
- Wolf SE, George EM, Dong J, Rosvall KA. Telomere-Related Gene Networks in the Ovary Shift Across Environmental Factors. J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol. 2025 Jul 2.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.70003.
- Zipple, M.N., Zhao, I., Chang Kuo, D. Moe Lee, S., Sheehan, M.J. Zhou, W. Ecological realism accelerates epigenetic aging in mice. Aging Cell, 21 May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70098
- Motes-Rodrigo A, Albery GF, Negron-Del Valle JE, Philips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Testard C. 2025. A natural disaster exacerbates and redistributes disease risk across free-ranging macaques by altering social structure. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70000
- Nwakama CA, Durand-de Cuttoli R, Oketokoun ZM, Brown SO, Haller JE, Méndez A, Jodeiri Farshbaf M, Cho YZ, Ahmed S, Leng S, Ables JL, Sweis BM. Neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting are altered in a mouse model of diabetes. Commun Biol. 2025 Jan 21;8(1):102. doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-07500-6.
- Zipple, Matthew N., Daniel Chang Kuo, Xinmiao Meng, Tess M. Reichard, Kwynn Guess, Caleb C. Vogt, Andrew H. Moeller, and Michael J. Sheehan. “Competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice.” Science 387, no. 6729 (2025): 81-85.
2024
- Bartolomucci A, Tung J, Harris KM. 2024. The fortunes and misfortunes of social life across the life course: A new era of research from field, laboratory and comparative studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 162: 105655. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105655. PMID: 38583652.
- Bartolomucci A, Kane AE, Gaydosh L, Razzoli M, McCoy BM, Ehninger D, Chen BH, Howlett SE, Snyder-Mackler N. Animal Models Relevant for Geroscience: Current Trends and Future Perspectives in Biomarkers, and Measures of Biological Aging. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Sep 1;79(9):glae135. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glae135.
- Sapolsky, R. 2024. Making sense of the costs of adversity throughout the lifespan on aging in humans and other animals. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 159: 105571. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105571. PMID: 38316195
- Testard C, Shergold C, Acevedo-Ithier A, Hart J, Bernau A, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Watowich MM, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, Platt ML, Brent LJN. Ecological disturbance alters the adaptive benefits of social ties. Science. 2024 Jun 21;384(6702):1330-1335.
- Zipple MN, Vogt CC, Sheehan MJ. Genetically Identical Mice Express Alternative Reproductive Tactics Depending on Social Conditions in the Field. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 31:2023.05.25.542282. doi: 10.1101/2023.05.25.542282. Update in: Proc Biol Sci. 2024 Mar 27;291(2019):20240099. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0099.
- Vogt CC, Zipple MN, Sprockett DD, Miller CH, Hardy SX, Arthur MK, Greenstein AM, Colvin MS, Michel LM, Moeller AH, Sheehan MJ. Female behavior drives the formation of distinct social structures in C57BL/6J versus wild-derived outbred mice in field enclosures. BMC Biol. 2024 Feb 14;22(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01809-0
- Real MVF, Colvin MS, Sheehan MJ, Moeller AH. Major urinary protein (Mup) gene family deletion drives sex-specific alterations in the house-mouse gut microbiota. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Feb 6;12(2):e0356623. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03566-23.
- Durand-de Cuttoli R, Martínez-Rivera FJ, Li L, Minier-Toribio A, Dong Z, Cai DJ, Russo SJ, Nestler EJ, Sweis BM. A Double Hit of Social and Economic Stress in Mice Precipitates Changes in Decision-Making Strategies. Biol Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 1;96(1):67-78. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.011.
2023
- Rothwell, E.S., Carp, S.B., Bliss-Moreau, E. (2023). The importance of social behavior in nonhuman primate studies of aging: A mini-review.. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 154, 105422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105422
- Albery, G.F., Sweeny, A.R., Webber, Q. (2023). How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105426
- Berendzen, K.M. (2023). Understanding social attachment as a window into the neural basis of prosocial behavior. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1247480
- Berendzen, K.M., Bales, K.L., Manoli, D.S. (2023). Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105339
- Hernández-Pacheco, R., Steiner, U.K., Rosati, A., Tuljapurkar, S. (2023). Advancing methods for the biodemography of aging within social contexts. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105400
- Gonzalez SJ, Sherer AJ, Hernández-Pacheco R. Differential effects of early life adversity on male and female rhesus macaque lifespan. Ecol Evol. 2023 Nov 5;13(11):e10689.
- Lyons, C.E., Razzoli, M., Bartolomucci, A. (2023). The impact of life stress on hallmarks of aging and accelerated senescence: Connections in sickness and in health. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105359
- Dettmer, A.M., Chusyd, D.E. (2023). Early life adversities and lifelong health outcomes: A review of the literature on large, social, long-lived nonhuman mammals. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105297
- Rosenbaum, S., Kuzawa, C.W. (2023). The promise of great apes as model organisms for understanding the downstream consequences of early life experiences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105240
- Thompson González, N., Machanda, Z., Emery Thompson, M. (2023). Age-related social selectivity: An adaptive lens on a later life social phenotype. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105294
- Tung, J., Lange, E.C., Alberts, S.C., Archie, E.A. (2023). Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105282
- Housman G, Tung J. Next-generation primate genomics: New genome assemblies unlock new questions. Cell. 2023 Dec 7;186(25):5433-5437. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.11.014.
- Wolf, S.E., Shalev, I. (2023). The shelterin protein expansion of telomere dynamics: Linking early life adversity, life history, and the hallmarks of aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105261
- Zipple, M.N., Vogt, C.C., Sheehan, M.J. (2023). Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105238
- Gendron, C.M., Chakraborty, T.S., Duran, C., Dono, T., Pletcher, S.D. (2023). Ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex act as a rheostat for sensory modulation of aging. PLoS Biology, 21(6), e3002149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002149
- Morrison, R.E., Eckardt, W., Stoinski, T.S., Rosenbaum, S. (2023). Cumulative early-life adversity does not predict reduced adult longevity in wild gorillas. Current Biology, 33(11), 2307-2314.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.051
- Berendzen, K.M., Sharma, R., Mandujano, M.A., Wei, Y., Rogers, F.D., Simmons, T.C., Seelke, A.M.H., Bond, J.M., Larios, R., Goodwin, N.L., Sherman, M., Parthasarthy, S., Espineda, I., Knoedler, J.R., Beery, A., Bales, K.L., Shah, N.M., Manoli, D.S. (2023). Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles. Neuron, 111(6), 787-796.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.12.011
- Kivimäki, M., Bartolomucci, A., & Kawachi, I. (2023). The multiple roles of life stress in metabolic disorders. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 19, 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-022-00746-8
- Newman LE, Testard C, DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Watowich MM, Janiak MC, Pavez-Fox MA, Sanchez Rosado MR, Cooper EB, Costa CE, Petersen RM; Cayo Biobank Research Unit; Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP. The biology of aging in a social world: Insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2023 Nov;154:105424. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105424.
2022
- Berendzen, K.M. and Manoli, D.S. (2022). Rethinking the Architecture of Attachment: New Insights into the Role for Oxytocin Signaling. Affective Science, 3(4), 734-748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00142-5
- Albery, G.F., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, D.H., & Firth, J.A. (2022). Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01817-9
- Testard, C., Brent, L.J., Andersson, J., Chiou, K.L., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., DeCasien, A.R., Acevedo-Ithier, A., Stock, M.K., Antón, S.C., Gonzalez, O., & Walker, C.S. (2022). Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society. Science Advances, 8(15), p.eabl5794. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl5794
2021
- Green, C.L., Englund, D.A., Das, S., Herrerias, M.M., Yousefzadeh, M.J., Grant, R.A., Clark, J., Pak, H.H., Liu, P., Bai, H., Prahlad, V., Lamming, D.W., & Chusyd, D.E. (2021). The Second Annual Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium: The Future of Aging Research in the Midwestern United States. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 76(12), 2156-2161. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab210
- Albery, Gregory F., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pemberton, J.M., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Nussey, D.H., & Firth, J.A. (2021). Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate. Ecology Letters, 24(4), 676-686. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13684
- Bartolomucci, A., & Sapolsky, R. M. (2021). Psychosocial Risk Factors, Noncommunicable Diseases, and Animal Models for COVID-19. Biological psychiatry, 89(12), e67–e71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.12.014
- Testard, C., Larson, S. M., Watowich, M. M., Kaplinsky, C. H., Bernau, A., Faulder, M., Marshall, H. H., Lehmann, J., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Higham, J. P., Montague, M. J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Platt, M. L., & Brent, L. (2021). Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster. Current Biology: CB, 31(11), 2299–2309.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.029
- Testard, C., Tremblay, S., & Platt, M. (2021). From the field to the lab and back: neuroethology of primate social behavior. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 68, 76–83.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.01.005
2020
- Snyder-Mackler, N., Burger, J. R., Gaydosh, L., Belsky, D. W., Noppert, G. A., Campos, F. A., Bartolomucci, A., Yang, Y. C., Aiello, A. E., O’Rand, A., Harris, K. M., Shively, C. A., Alberts, S. C., & Tung, J. (2020). Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6493), eaax9553. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9553