ReviewJournal of chemical neuroanatomy2010
Birdsong and the neural production of steroids.
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- Estrogen profiling in blood and brain: Effects of season and an aggressive interaction in a songbird.PloS one · 2025Article
- Aromatase Inhibition Eliminates Sexual Receptivity Without Enhancing Weight Gain in Ovariectomized Marmoset Monkeys.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2022Article
- Motivational increase of androgens and behavior by infant distress calls in highly responsive common marmoset fathers, Callithrix jacchus.Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
- Acute neuroestrogen blockade attenuates song-induced immediate early gene expression in auditory regions of male and female zebra finches.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Steroid profiles in quail brain and serum: Sex and regional differences and effects of castration with steroid replacement.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2019Article
- Analysis of Corticosterone and Testosterone Synthesis in Rat Salivary Gland Homogenates.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- Neuroestrogens rapidly shape auditory circuits to support communication learning and perception: Evidence from songbirds.Hormones and behavior · 2018Review
- Genes linked to species diversity in a sexually dimorphic communication signal in electric fish.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- Endocrine disruption by dietary phyto-oestrogens: impact on dimorphic sexual systems and behaviours.The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 2017Review
- GPER/GPR30, a membrane estrogen receptor, is expressed in the brain and retina of a social fish (Carassius auratus) and colocalizes with isotocin.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2017Article
- Neural endocannabinoid CB1 receptor expression, social status, and behavior in male European starlings.Brain research · 2016Article
- Dominance-related seasonal song production is unrelated to circulating testosterone in a subtropical songbird.General and comparative endocrinology · 2016Article
- Variations on a theme: Songbirds, variability, and sensorimotor error correction.Neuroscience · 2015Review
- A mechanism for rapid neurosteroidal regulation of parenting behaviour.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Social regulation of male reproductive plasticity in an African cichlid fish.Integrative and comparative biology · 2013Review
- Translating birdsong: songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research.Annual review of neuroscience · 2013Review
- Functional changes between seasons in the male songbird auditory forebrain.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2013Article
- Rapid control of male typical behaviors by brain-derived estrogens.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2012Article
- Changing neuroestrogens within the auditory forebrain rapidly transform stimulus selectivity in a downstream sensorimotor nucleus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012Article
- To modulate and be modulated: estrogenic influences on auditory processing of communication signals within a socio-neuro-endocrine framework.Behavioral neuroscience · 2012Review
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Abstract
The forebrain circuits involved in singing and audition (the 'song system') in songbirds exhibit a remarkable capacity to synthesize and respond to steroid hormones. This review considers how local brain steroid production impacts the development, sexual differentiation, and activity of song system circuitry. The songbird forebrain contains all of the enzymes necessary for the de novo synthesis of steroids - including neuroestrogens - from cholesterol. Steroid production enzymes are found in neuronal cell bodies, but they are also expressed in pre-synaptic terminals in the song system, indicating a novel mode of brain steroid delivery to local circuits. The song system expresses nuclear hormone receptors, consistent with local action of brain-derived steroids. Local steroid production also occurs in brain regions that do not express nuclear hormone receptors, suggesting a non-classical mode of action. Recent evidence indicates that local steroid levels can change rapidly within the forebrain, in a manner similar to traditional neuromodulators. Lastly, we consider growing evidence for modulatory interactions between brain-derived steroids and neurotransmitter/neuropeptide networks within the song system. Songbirds have therefore emerged as a rich and powerful model system to explore the neural and neurochemical regulation of social behavior.
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