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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2014

Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective.

Gonçalo A Oliveira, Rui F Oliveira

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Dynamic modulation of sociality and aggression: an examination of plasticity within endocrine and neuroendocrine systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gonçalo A OliveiraUnidade de Investigação em Eco-Etologia, ISPA - Instituto Universitário Lisboa, Portugal.
Rui F OliveiraUnidade de Investigação em Eco-Etologia, ISPA - Instituto Universitário Lisboa, Portugal ; Integrative Behavioural Biology Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oeiras, Portugal ; Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown Lisboa, Portugal.
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência · PTISPA - Instituto Universitário · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apart from their role in reproduction androgens also respond to social challenges and this response has been seen as a way to regulate the expression of behavior according to the perceived social environment (Challenge hypothesis, Wingfield et al., 1990). This hypothesis implies that social decision-making mechanisms localized in the central nervous system (CNS) are open to the influence of peripheral hormones that ultimately are under the control of the CNS through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Therefore, two puzzling questions emerge at two different levels of biological analysis: (1) Why does the brain, which perceives the social environment and regulates androgen production in the gonad, need feedback information from the gonad to adjust its social decision-making processes? (2) How does the brain regulate gonadal androgen responses to social challenges and how do these feedback into the brain? In this paper, we will address these two questions using the integrative approach proposed by Niko Tinbergen, who proposed that a full understanding of behavior requires its analysis at both proximate (physiology, ontogeny) and ultimate (ecology, evolution) levels.

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Identifiers

PMID25100938
PMCPMC4105629
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