Hormones have pervasive influences on animal behavior; at the level of individual neurons and neural circuits, steroid effects on dendritic morphology, synaptic function and ionic conductances have been implicated in the regulation of behavior in both vertebrates and invertebrates.  My studies take a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to understand how steroid hormones modulate neural plasticity in two model systems:

 

 

 

 

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