The anxiety associated with social avoidance can have long - term effects. (kidshealth.org)
Specifically, our data with the CSDS model suggests that animals most susceptible to social stress after going through the 10 - day social defeat paradigm exhibit increased social avoidance behavior, anhedonia and potentiated fear responding to sound cues. (psychogenics.com)
In September, Hagerman and colleagues reported that arbaclofen, a drug that stimulates a type of GABA receptor, reduced social avoidance in people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that shares many features with autism. (sciencemag.org)