Having confirmed findings in adult zebra finches, Gadagkar and his team at Columbia University turned their attention to juveniles, who were learning to produce sound for the first time. A juvenile's ...
Many types of synaptic and behavioral plasticity decline as animals mature, but we still do not understand what causes adult behaviors to stabilize. Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony ...
Welsh trio Budgie may not have been as successful as Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, but they influenced everyone from Metallica and Iron Maiden to Soundgarden and Steve Albini. In 2004, helium-voiced ...
Sexual differentiation of the brain is determined in part by steroids such as estrogen, which are generally assumed to arise from the gonads. Here we show that estrogens are produced autonomously in ...