Sex-specific processing of social cues in the medial amygdala

JF Bergan, Y Ben-Shaul, C Dulac - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.02743.001 Animal–animal recognition within, and across species, is essential
for predator avoidance and social interactions. Despite its essential role in orchestrating …

Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum form an anatomically distinct subclass

W Menegas, JF Bergan, SK Ogawa, Y Isogai… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.10032.001 Combining rabies-virus tracing, optical clearing (CLARITY), and
whole-brain light-sheet imaging, we mapped the monosynaptic inputs to midbrain dopamine …

[PDF][PDF] Superresolution imaging of chemical synapses in the brain

A Dani, B Huang, J Bergan, C Dulac, X Zhuang - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
Determination of the molecular architecture of synapses requires nanoscopic image
resolution and specific molecular recognition, a task that has so far defied many conventional …

Galanin neurons in the medial preoptic area govern parental behaviour

Z Wu, AE Autry, JF Bergan, M Watabe-Uchida… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Mice display robust, stereotyped behaviours towards pups: virgin males typically attack pups,
whereas virgin females and sexually experienced males and females display parental care…

A neural circuit perspective on brain aromatase

JA Spool, JF Bergan, L Remage-Healey - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2022 - Elsevier
This review explores the role of aromatase in the brain as illuminated by a set of conserved
network-level connections identified in several vertebrate taxa. Aromatase-expressing …

Oxytocin signaling in the medial amygdala is required for sex discrimination of social cues

S Yao, J Bergan, A Lanjuin, C Dulac - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.31373.001 The neural control of social behaviors in rodents requires the
encoding of pheromonal cues by the vomeronasal system. Here we show that the typical …

Brain-wide synaptic inputs to aromatase-expressing neurons in the medial amygdala suggest complex circuitry for modulating social behavior

J Dwyer, DA Kelly, J Bergan - Eneuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
Here, we reveal an unbiased view of the brain regions that provide specific inputs to
aromatase-expressing cells in the medial amygdala, neurons that play an outsized role in the …

Hunting increases adaptive auditory map plasticity in adult barn owls

JF Bergan, P Ro, D Ro, EI Knudsen - Journal of Neuroscience, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
The optic tectum (OT) of barn owls contains topographic maps of auditory and visual space.
Barn owls reared with horizontally displacing prismatic spectacles (prisms) acquire a novel …

Synaptic connections of aromatase circuits in the medial amygdala are sex specific

A Billing, MH Correia, DA Kelly, GL Li, JF Bergan - Eneuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
The brains of male and female mice are shaped by genetics and hormones during development.
The enzyme aromatase helps establish sex differences in social behaviors and in the …

A sex‐specific feedback projection from aromatase‐expressing neurons in the medial amygdala to the accessory olfactory bulb

T Inbar, R Davis, JF Bergan - Journal of Comparative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) plays a critical role in classifying pheromonal signals.
Here we identify two previously undescribed sources of aromatase signaling in the AOB: (1) a …