ReviewJournal of chemical neuroanatomy2010
What birdsong can teach us about the central noradrenergic system.
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- Nightly changes in neural activity and auditory processing of song control neurons depend on melatonin.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Neural Circuit Connections and Functions of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Diversity of ancestral brainstem noradrenergic neurons across species and multiple biological factors.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- In search of the locus coeruleus: guidelines for identifying anatomical boundaries and electrophysiological properties of the blue spot in mice, fish, finches, and beyond.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Review
- Listening to your partner: serotonin increases male responsiveness to female vocal signals in mice.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural circuit for social authentication in song learning.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Locus Coeruleus in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Hidden neural states underlie canary song syntax.Nature · 2020Article
- Arousal State-Dependent Alterations in Neural Activity in the Zebra Finch VTA/SNc.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Noradrenergic receptor modulation influences the acoustic parameters of pro-social rat ultrasonic vocalizations.Behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Norepinephrine enhances song responsiveness and encoding in the auditory forebrain of male zebra finches.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Monoaminergic integration of diet and social signals in the brains of juvenile spadefoot toads.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Adrenoceptor-Mediated Post- and Pre-Synaptic Regulations of the Reticulospinal Neurons in Rat Caudal Pontine Reticular Nucleus.Molecular neurobiology · 2016Article
- Serotonin, estrus, and social context influence c-Fos immunoreactivity in the inferior colliculus.Behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Mechanisms underlying the social enhancement of vocal learning in songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Socially induced serotonergic fluctuations in the male auditory midbrain correlate with female behavior during courtship.Journal of neurophysiology · 2016Article
- Reduced vocal variability in a zebra finch model of dopamine depletion: implications for Parkinson disease.Physiological reports · 2015Article
- Norepinephrine Modulates Coding of Complex Vocalizations in the Songbird Auditory Cortex Independent of Local Neuroestrogen Synthesis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- DSP4, a selective neurotoxin for the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system. A review of its mode of action.Neurotoxicity research · 2015Review
- Catecholaminergic connectivity to the inner ear, central auditory, and vocal motor circuitry in the plainfin midshipman fish porichthys notatus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Increasing evidence indicates that the noradrenergic system plays a key role in biasing the nervous system towards producing behaviors that help animals adapt to constantly changing environments. Most of the studies investigating noradrenergic function are performed in animals that have a limited repertoire of tractable natural behaviors. Songbirds, in contrast, with their rich set of precisely quantifiable vocal behaviors, provide a unique model system to study the noradrenergic system. An additional advantage of this system is the existence of a well-defined neural circuit, known as the song system, that is necessary for the production, learning and perception of song and can be studied at many different levels. These include the ability to investigate the effect of norepinephrine on synaptic function using brain slices, identifying its influence on singing-related gene expression and monitoring its impact on the activity of single neurons recorded in awake behaving birds. In this review article, we describe the similarities and differences, both anatomical and functional, between the avian and mammalian noradrenergic system and its role in sensory processing, learning, attention and synaptic modulation. We also describe how the noradrenergic system influences motor production, an under-explored aspect of norepinephrine function in mammalian studies. We argue that the richness of behaviors observed in songbirds provides a unique opportunity to study the noradrenergic system in a highly integrative manner that will ultimately provide important insights into the role of this system in normal behavior and disease.
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