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The National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has established an annual lecture to honor Robert W. Goy (1924-1999), a pioneer in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Past lectures were delivered by Kim Wallen, Arthur Arnold, Margaret McCarthy, Tracy Bale and Bruce McEwen. I had the pleasure to present this year’s lecture online on April 9 and the video of this presentation is now available at:
https://mediaspace.wisc.edu/.../WNPRC+-+2021.../1_ddtjid0l
For those interested you have here 75 min of data on sexual differentiation, neuroestrogens and brain plasticity in quail and songbirds!
New Publications - year 2020
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BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2020). The neuroendocrine integration of environmental information, the regulation and action of testosterone and the challenge hypothesis. Horm. Behav. 104574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104574.
BALL GF, MADISON FN, BALTHAZART J & ALWARD BA. (2019). How Does Testosterone Act to Regulate a Multifaceted Adaptive Response? Lessons from Studies of the Avian Song System. J. Neuroendocrinol. 32/1, e12793. doi: 10.1111/jne.12793
CORNEZ G, SHEVCHOUK OT, GHORBANPOOR S, BALL GF, CORNIL CA & BALTHAZART J. (2020) Testosterone stimulates perineuronal nets development around parvalbumin cells in the adult canary brain in parallel with song crystallization. Horm. Behav. 119 :104643
CORNEZ G, COLLIGNON C, MÜLLER W, BALL GF, CORNIL CA & BALTHAZART J. (2020) Seasonal changes of perineuronal nets and song learning in adult canaries (Serinus canaria). Behav. Brain. Res. 380 : 112437.
CORNEZ G, LANGRO J, CORNIL CA, BALTHAZART J & LYNCH KS. (2020). Comparing perineuronal nets and parvalbumin development between blackbird species with differences in early devepmental song exposure. J. Exp. Biol. Jeb 212910.
ORIJE J, DE GROOF G., HAMAIDE J, VAN MASSENHOVEN S, CARDON E, JONCKERS E, DARRAS V, BALTHAZART J, VERHOYE M, VAN DER LINDEN A. (2020). In vivo online monitoring of testosterone-induced neuroplasticity in a female seasonal songbird. Horm. Behav. 118 : 104639
MAJUMDAR G, YADAV1 G, HAMAIDE J, COUSSEMENT L, ANAND AJ, DE MEYER T, VERHOYE M, VANDEN BERGHE W, BALTHAZART J & VAN DER LINDEN A. Molecular correlates of hypothalamic development in song bird ontogeny and their comparison with development of telencephalon. FASEB J. 4(4):4997-5015. doi: 10.1096/fj.201902477R.
BALTHAZART, J. (2020). How technical progress reshaped behavioral neuroendocrinology during the last 50 years… and some methodological remarks. Horm. Behav. 18:104682. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104682
CORNEZ G, COLLIGNON C, MÜLLER W, CORNIL CA, BALL GF & BALTHAZART J. (2020). Development of perineuronal nets during ontogeny correlates with sensorimotor vocal learning in canaries. eNeuro 2020 7(2):ENEURO.0361-19.2020. 1-17.
CORNIL, C.A., BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2020). Sexually differentiated and neuroanatomically specific co-expression of aromatase neurons and GAD67 in the male and female quail brain. Eur. J. Neurosci. 52, 2963-2981.
BALTHAZART, J. (2020). Sexual partner preference in animals and humans. Neurosci. Biobehav Rev. 115 : 34-47.
COURT, L., VANDRIES, L., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2020) Key Role of Estrogen Receptor β in the organization of brain and behavior of the Japanese quail. Horm. Behav.125, 104827.
BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2020) Sex differences and similarities in the neural circuit regulating song and other reproductive behaviors in songbirds. Neurosci. Biobehav Rev. 118 : 258-269.
HAAKENSON, C.M., BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. Effects of inactivation of the periaqueductal gray on song production in testosterone-treated male canaries (Serinus canaria). eNeuro. 2020 7(4) ENEURO.0048-20.2020 1-9
La liste complète et les abstracts peuvent se trouver sur Pubmed à l’URL:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=balthazart
Publication of the Italian version of my book on the Biology of Homosexuality entitled:
BALTHAZART, J. (2020). Biologia dell’omosessualità. Eterosessuali o omosessuali si nasce, non si diventa. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, Italy. pp325.
New Publications - End of 2019
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BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). In Memoriam : Ronald J. Barfield (July 25, 1936-September 29, 2015). Horm. Behav. 112 : 107-108
DE BOURNONVILLE, C., SCHMIT, M., TELLE, M., COURT, L., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2019). Effects of a novel partner and sexual satiety on the expression of male sexual behavior and brain aromatase activity in quail. Behav. Brain Res. 359 : 502-515.
LIERE, P, CORNIL, C.A., DE BOURNONVILLE, M.P., PIANOS, A., KELLER, M., SCHUMACHER, M. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). Steroid profiles in quail brain and serum: sex and regional differences and effects of castration with steroid replacement. J. Neuroendo. DOI: 10.1111/jne.12681
DE BOURNONVILLE, M.P., VANDRIES, L.M., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2019). Site-specific effects of aromatase inhibition on the activation of male sexual behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Horm. Behav. 108 : 42-49.
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). Rapid testosterone-induced growth of the medial preoptic nucleus in male canaries. Physiol. Behav. 204 : 20-26.
VANDRIES LM, GHORBANPOOR S, CORNEZ G, SHEVCHOUK OT, BALL GF, CORNIL CA, BALTHAZART J. (2019). Testosterone or Estradiol When Implanted in the Medial Preoptic Nucleus Trigger Short Low-Amplitude Songs in Female Canaries. eNeuro. 2019 May 7;6(2). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0502-18.2019.
BALTHAZART J. (2019). New concepts in the study of the sexual differentiation and activation of reproductive behavior, a personal view. Front. Neuroendocrinol. 55 :100785
BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). The neuroendocrine integration of environmental information, the regulation and action of testosterone and the challenge hypothesis. Horm. Behav. 104574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104574.
BALL GF, MADISON FN, BALTHAZART J & ALWARD BA. (2019). How Does Testosterone Act to Regulate a Multifaceted Adaptive Response? Lessons from Studies of the Avian Song System. J. Neuroendocrinol. E12793.
New publications—March 2019
CORNEZ, G., JONCKERS, E., TER HAAR, S.M., (...), CORNIL, C.A., BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Timing of perineuronal net development in the zebra finch song control system correlates with developmental song learning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285(1883),20180849.
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., GHORBANPOOR, S., SMITH, E., LIERE, P., SCHUMACHER, M. BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A., BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Behavioral evidence for sex steroids hypersensitivity in castrated male canaries. Hormones and Behavior 103: 80-96.
REMAGE-HEALEY, L., CHOLERIS, E. & BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Rapid effects of steroids in the brain: Introduction to special issue. Horm. Behav. 104 : 1-3.
CORNIL, C.A., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Differential control of appetitive and consummatory sexual behavior by neuroestrogens in male quail. Hormones and Behavior 104 : 15-31.
ALWARD, B.A., CORNIL, C.A., BALTHAZART, J., BALL, G.F. (2018). The regulation of birdsong by testosterone: Multiple time-scales and multiple sites of action. Hormonese and Behavior 104 : 32-40.
VAN DER LINDEN, A. & BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Rapid changes in auditory processing in songbirds following acute aromatase inhibition as assessed by fMRI. Horm. Behav. 104 : 63-76.
BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. (2018) Sexual Behavior in males from a Neuroendocrine perspective. Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.8.
BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2018). In Memoriam : Ronald J. Barfield (July 25, 1936-September 29, 2015). Horm. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.02.012.
DE BOURNONVILLE, C., SCHMIT, M., TELLE, M., COURT, L., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2019).Effects of a novel partner and sexual satiety on the expression of male sexual behavior and brain aromatase activity in quail. Behav. Brain Res. 359 : 502-515.
LIERE, P, CORNIL, C.A., DE BOURNONVILLE, M.P., PIANOS, A., KELLER, M., SCHUMACHER, M. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). Steroid profiles in quail brain and serum: sex and regional differences and effects of castration with steroid replacement. J. Neuroendo. DOI: 10.1111/jne.12681
DE BOURNONVILLE, M.P., VANDRIES, L.M., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2019). Site-specific effects of aromatase inhibition on the activation of male sexual behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Horm. Behav. 108 : 42-49.
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A. & BALTHAZART, J. (2019). Rapid testosterone-induced growth of the medial preoptic nucleus in male canaries. Physiol. Behav. 204 : 20-26.
New publications—January 2018
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., GHORBANPOOR, S., BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A. & BALTHAZART, J. (2017). Testosterone-induced neuroendocrine changes in the medial preoptic area precede song activation and plasticity in song control nuclei of female canaries. Eur. J. Neurosci. 45(7), 886-900
GROOF, G., BALTHAZART, J., CORNIL, C.A., & VAN DER LINDEN, A. (2017). Topography and lateralized effect of acute aromatase inhibition on auditory processing in a seasonal songbird. J. Neurosci. 37(16), 4243-4254.
DE BOURNONVILLE, C., SMOLDERS, I., VAN EECKHAUT, A., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL, C.A. (2017). Glutamate released in the preoptic area during sexual behavior controls local estrogen synthesis in male quail. Pychoneuroendocrinology 79, 49-58.
BALTHAZART, J. (2017). Steroid metaboism in the brain : From birdwatching to molecular biology, a personal journey. Hormones and Behavior 93, 137-150.
BALTHAZART, J. & COURT, L. (2017). Human sexual orientation : The importance of evidentiary convergence. Archives of Sexual Behavior 46(6), 1595-1600.
CORNEZ, G., MADISON, F.N., VAN DER LINDEN, A., CORNIL, C.A., YODER, K.M., BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. (2017). Perineuronal nets and vocal plasticity in songbirds: a proposed mechanism for the regulation of closed- versus open-ended learning? Dev. Neurobiol. 77(8), 975-994.
ALWARD, B.A., BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. (2017). Dissociable effects on birdsong of androgen signaling in cortex-like brain regions of canaries. J. Neurosci. 37(36), 8612-8624.
Balthazart, J. (2017) Genetic and prenatal components of homosexuality. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, T.D. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes-Shackelford eds, Springer Ed. pp 1-4.
BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. (2017). Male Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates. Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-809633-8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633- 8.01059-1
DE BOURNONVILLE, C., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. & CORNIL C.A. (2017) Rapid changes in brain aromatase activity in the female quail brain following expression of sexual behavior. J. Endocrinol. 29(11). doi: 10.1111/jne.12542.
BALTHAZART, J. (2018). Fraternal birth order effect on sexual orientation explained. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 9;115(2):234-236. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719534115. Epub 2017 Dec 19.
BALTHAZART, J., CHOLERIS, E., REMAGE-HEALEY, L. (2018). Steroids and the brain: 50 years of research, conceptual shifts and the ascent of non-classical and membrane-initiated actions. Horm Behav. 2018 Jan 11;99:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.01.002.
Presentation of the Lehrman Award on June 14, 2017 in Long Beach, CA during the SBN meeting
March 10, 2017
Jacques Balthazart is announced as the 2017 awardee for the Daniel S. Lehman lifetime achievement award of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
see: http://sbn.org/awards/daniel-s-lehrman-award.aspx
February 1st, 2017
Jacques Balthazart is appointed Associate Editor of the Journal Hormones and Behavior Elsevier, the official journal of the Society for Behavioral neuroendocrinology.
New Publications February 2017
IYILICKI, O., BALTHAZART, J., & BALL, G.F. (2016) Medial preoptic regulation of the ventral tegmental area related to the control of sociosexual behaviors. eNEURO 3(6) e0283-16.2016, 1-12
ALWARD, B.A., ROUSE, M.L.Jr, BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. (2017) Testosterone Regulates Birdsong in an Anatomically Specific Manner. Anim. Behav.124, 291-298
BALL, G.F., ALWARD, B.A. & BALTHAZART, J. (2017) Seasonal Changes in Brain and Behavior. In « Biological Timekeeping : clocks, rhythms and behavior » V. Kumar editor.
BALTHAZART, J. & BALL, G.F. (2017) Male Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates. Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier.
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A. & BALTHAZART, J. Studies of HVC plasticity in adult canaries reveal social effects and sex differences as well as limitations of multiple markers available to assess adult neurogenesis. Plos One 12(1): e0170938
BALTHAZART J. (2017) Genetic and prenatal components of homosexuality. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Sciences. Spinger Int. T.K.Shackelford & V.A. Weeks-Shackelford (eds)
SHEVCHOUK, O.T., GHORBANPOOR, S., BALL, G.F., CORNIL, C.A. & BALTHAZART, J. Testosterone-induced neuroendocrine changes in the medial preoptic area precede song activation and plasticity in song control nuclei of female canaries. Eur. J. Neurosci. (In Press)
CORNEZ, G., MADISON, F.N., VAN DER LINDEN, A., CORNIL, C.A., YODER, K.M., BALL, G.F. & BALTHAZART, J. Perineuronal nets and vocal plasticity in songbirds: a proposed mechanism for the regulation of closed- versus open-ended learning? Dev. Neurobiol. (In Press)
DE GROOF, G., BALTHAZART, J., CORNIL, C.A., & VAN DER LINDEN, A. Acute Effect of Aromatase Inhibition on Auditory Processing in a Seasonal Songbird. J. Neurosci. (In Press)
DE BOURNONVILLE, C., SMOLDERS, I., VAN EECKHAUT, A ;, BALL, G.F., BALL, G.F., BALTHAZART, J. &CORNIL, C.A. Glutamate released in the preoptic area during sexual behavior controls local estrogen synthesis in male quail. Pychoneuroendocrinolmogy (In Press)
Publication in November 2016 of the 3rd édition of Hormones, Brain and Behavior (5 volumes, ± 2500 pages) including the 2nd volume (Non mammalian hormone-behavior systems) that was edited by Jacques Balthazart. This book contains also 3 chapters that were written by members of the Liège research group, namely:
Chapter 2.11 Gregory F Ball and Jacques Balthazart. Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproductive Behavior in Birds Vol 2, p 217-254.
Chapiter 2.13 L Remage-Healey, S A Heimovics, K K Soma, and C A Cornil . Rapid Effects of Estrogens on Avian Brain and Social Behavior Vol 2, p 291-304.
Chapter 5.09 Jacques Balthazart, Arthur P Arnold, and Elizabeth Adkins-Regan. Sexual Differentiation of Brain and Behavior in Birds Vol 5, 185-224.
Jacques Balthazart received the Farner Medal for his lifetime research achievements in avian endocrinology on October 14, 2016 during the International Symposium on Avian Endocrinology held in Niagara on the Lake, Ontarion Canada.
See http://www.isae2016.ca/award-ceremony/
Jacques Balthazart was elected fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) at the annual meeting of the society in Washington DC on February 12, 2016.
Publication on February 3, 2016 in Philosophical Transactions B of the paper titled:
Sex differences in partner preference in humans and animals.
J. Balthazart(2016) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20150118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0118
The Radio show called « Science vs. the Gay Gene » by Wendy Zukerman including interviews of Prof. Jenny Graves, Prof. Jacques Balthazart, Prof. William Rice and Dr. Iian Dar-Nimrod (from ABC Radio) is now available on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/science-vs/the-gay-gene and iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/science-vs/id998250544?mt=2
PUBLICATION OF:
The dual action of estrogen hypothesis. by Charlotte A. Cornil, Gregory F. Ball et Jacques Balthazart in Trends in Neuroscience (Juillet 2015).
** The Chapter on "Mate selection, Sexual orientation and Pair Bonding" by Jacques Balthazart & Larry Young is now published as Chapter 48 in Knobil and Neill’s Physiology of Reproduction 4th Ed.
See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397175-3.00048-X
** Our papers written in response to the Vellema et al paper in J. Comp. Neurol (2014, 522:1299-1315) to discuss the usefulness of doublecortin as a marker of adut neurogenesis in birds are now published or available online. See:
http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/362917
-Journal of Comparative Neurology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.23661/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false