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Dopamine regulation of human speech and bird song: a critical review.
(Brain Lang, 2012-09)
To understand the neural basis of human speech control, extensive research has been
done using a variety of methodologies in a range of experimental models. Nevertheless,
several critical questions about learned vocal motor ...
The 70-kDa heat shock cognate protein (Hsc73) gene is enhanced by ovarian hormones in the ventromedial hypothalamus.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1999-02-16)
Estrogen (E) and progesterone (P) orchestrate many cellular responses involved in
female reproductive physiology, including reproductive behaviors. E- and P-binding
neurons important for lordosis behavior have been located ...
Analysis of the mouse transcriptome for genes involved in the function of the nervous system.
(Genome Res, 2003-06)
We analyzed the mouse Representative Transcript and Protein Set for molecules involved
in brain function. We found full-length cDNAs of many known brain genes and discovered
new members of known brain gene families, including ...
Influence of network topology and data collection on network inference.
(Pac Symp Biocomput, 2003)
We recently developed an approach for testing the accuracy of network inference algorithms
by applying them to biologically realistic simulations with known network topology.
Here, we seek to determine the degree to which ...
Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication.
(Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2015-12-19)
Understanding the mechanisms of evolution of brain pathways for complex behaviours
is still in its infancy. Making further advances requires a deeper understanding of
brain homologies, novelties and analogies. It also requires ...
A relationship between behavior, neurotrophin expression, and new neuron survival.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2000-07-18)
The high vocal center (HVC) controls song production in songbirds and sends a projection
to the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA) of the descending vocal pathway. HVC
receives new neurons in adulthood. Most of the ...
Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language.
(Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2004-06)
Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in
only three distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and cetaceans) and three
distantly related groups of birds (parrots, hummingbirds, ...
A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2006-10-10)
Songbirds have one of the most accessible neural systems for the study of brain mechanisms
of behavior. However, neuroethological studies in songbirds have been limited by the
lack of high-throughput molecular resources ...
Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds.
(Science, 2014-12-12)
Song-learning birds and humans share independently evolved similarities in brain pathways
for vocal learning that are essential for song and speech and are not found in most
other species. Comparisons of brain transcriptomes ...
NSF workshop report: discovering general principles of nervous system organization by comparing brain maps across species.
(J Comp Neurol, 2014-05-01)
Efforts to understand nervous system structure and function have received new impetus
from the federal Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
Initiative. Comparative analyses can contribute ...