Frank Beach Award Winner: Steroids as neuromodulators of brain circuits and behavior

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 552-560

  Remage Healey, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Estrogens; Neurosteroids; Songbird; Steroids; STG

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OCTOPAMINE; SEROTONIN; STEROID HORMONE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; SEX HORMONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BREATHING; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; FEEDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART RATE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 84922021588     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.07.014     Document Type: Review

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