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    • Adaptive social behavior necessitates balancing self-interest with others' welfare.
    • The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is implicated in prosocial behavior, but broader networks are unclear.
    • Most studies use inbred mice, limiting understanding of genetic diversity in social decision-making.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • Investigate neural mechanisms underlying selfish versus prosocial choices.
    • Examine how genetic background influences social decision-making.
    • Identify distributed cortical-subcortical networks involved in social choice.

    Main Methods:

    • Used a social decision-making task in C57BL/6 and CD1 mice.
    • Employed c-Fos mapping to assess neural activity across brain regions.
    • Analyzed coordinated activity within prefrontal-subcortical circuits.

    Main Results:

    • CD1 mice showed a stronger bias toward selfish behavior; C57BL/6 mice were more prosocial.
    • Elevated c-Fos activity in mPFC and nucleus accumbens core (NAcC) in CD1 mice.
    • Distinct prefrontal-subcortical network configurations were recruited by prosocial and selfish individuals.

    Conclusions:

    • Social choice bias is encoded in distributed circuit organization, not just single regions.
    • Genetic background significantly shapes neural implementation of social decisions.
    • Identified strain-dependent differences in neural architecture for prosocial and selfish behavior.