University of Groningen
Structural plasticity of the social brain Patel, Deepika
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10.33612/diss.133472775
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Publication date: 2020
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Patel, D. (2020). Structural plasticity of the social brain: Social stress-induced adaptations in dendritic remodeling and behavior. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.133472775
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Propositions
accompanying the thesis
“Structural plasticity of the social brain”
by Deepika Patel
1. The personality of an individual decides not only its style of coping with stressors, but also dictates its vulnerability to stress.
2. Stability of the social hierarchy makes or breaks the alpha male.
3. Actively incorporating biological variation into study design through diversifying study samples and conditions will improve reproducibility between laboratories.
4. The proportion of females in a rat colony positively correlates with the perceived stress in males.
5. Comparison between non-social and social stressors reveal more similarities than dissimilarities of their impact at different levels of neural organization.
6. Neuronal remodeling is not equivalent to adaptive failure. - (this thesis)
7. "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge". - Daniel J. Boorstin