ReviewHormones and behavior2018
Neuroestrogens rapidly shape auditory circuits to support communication learning and perception: Evidence from songbirds.
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- Acute Aromatase Inhibition Impairs Neural and Behavioral Auditory Scene Analysis in Zebra Finches.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Adult auditory brain responses to nestling begging calls in seasonal songbirds: an fMRI study in non-parenting male and female starlings (Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- Effect of estradiol and predator cues on behavior and brain responses of captive female house sparrows (Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) increases undirected singing behavior and alters dopaminergic regulation of undirected song in non-breeding male European starlings (Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Estradiol decreases the excitability of RA projection neurons in adult male zebra finches.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Article
- A brain for all seasons: An in vivo MRI perspective on songbirds.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Review
- Motivational increase of androgens and behavior by infant distress calls in highly responsive common marmoset fathers, Callithrix jacchus.Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
- Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- Aromatase and nonaromatase neurons in the zebra finch secondary auditory forebrain are indistinct in their song-driven gene induction and intrinsic electrophysiological properties.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Testosterone Treatment Mimics Seasonal Downregulation of Dopamine Innervation in the Auditory System of Female Midshipman Fish.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Aromatase in the Human Brain.Androgens: clinical research and therapeutics · 2021Review
- Testosterone synthesis in the female songbird brain.Hormones and behavior · 2020Article
- Non-reproductive Functions of Aromatase in the Central Nervous System Under Physiological and Pathological Conditions.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2019Review
- Male dominance status regulates odor-evoked processing in the forebrain of a cichlid fish.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Aromatase on Neurobehavioral Responses.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018Review
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Abstract
Contribution to Special Issue on Fast effects of steroids. Steroid hormones, such as estrogens, were once thought to be exclusively synthesized in the ovaries and enact transcriptional changes over the course of hours to days. However, estrogens are also locally synthesized within neural circuits, wherein they rapidly (within minutes) modulate a range of behaviors, including spatial cognition and communication. Here, we review the role of brain-derived estrogens (neuroestrogens) as modulators within sensory circuits in songbirds. We first present songbirds as an attractive model to explore how neuroestrogens in auditory cortex modulate vocal communication processing and learning. Further, we examine how estrogens may enhance vocal learning and auditory memory consolidation in sensory cortex via mechanisms similar to those found in the hippocampus of rodents and birds. Finally, we propose future directions for investigation, including: 1) the extent of developmental and hemispheric shifts in aromatase and membrane estrogen receptor expression in auditory circuits; 2) how neuroestrogens may impact inhibitory interneurons to regulate audition and critical period plasticity; and, 3) dendritic spine plasticity as a candidate mechanism mediating estrogen-dependent effects on vocal learning. Together, this perspective of estrogens as neuromodulators in the vertebrate brain has opened new avenues in understanding sensory plasticity, including how hormones can act on communication circuits to influence behaviors in other vocal learning species, such as in language acquisition and speech processing in humans.
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