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Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective

Apart from their role in reproduction androgens also respond to social challenges and this response has been seen as a way to regulate the expression of behavior according to the perceived social environment (Challenge hypothesis, Wingfield et al., 1990). This hypothesis implies that social decision...

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Autores principales: Oliveira, Gonçalo A., Oliveira, Rui F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00209
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description Apart from their role in reproduction androgens also respond to social challenges and this response has been seen as a way to regulate the expression of behavior according to the perceived social environment (Challenge hypothesis, Wingfield et al., 1990). This hypothesis implies that social decision-making mechanisms localized in the central nervous system (CNS) are open to the influence of peripheral hormones that ultimately are under the control of the CNS through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Therefore, two puzzling questions emerge at two different levels of biological analysis: (1) Why does the brain, which perceives the social environment and regulates androgen production in the gonad, need feedback information from the gonad to adjust its social decision-making processes? (2) How does the brain regulate gonadal androgen responses to social challenges and how do these feedback into the brain? In this paper, we will address these two questions using the integrative approach proposed by Niko Tinbergen, who proposed that a full understanding of behavior requires its analysis at both proximate (physiology, ontogeny) and ultimate (ecology, evolution) levels.
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spelling pubmed-41056292014-08-06 Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective Oliveira, Gonçalo A. Oliveira, Rui F. Front Neurosci Endocrinology Apart from their role in reproduction androgens also respond to social challenges and this response has been seen as a way to regulate the expression of behavior according to the perceived social environment (Challenge hypothesis, Wingfield et al., 1990). This hypothesis implies that social decision-making mechanisms localized in the central nervous system (CNS) are open to the influence of peripheral hormones that ultimately are under the control of the CNS through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Therefore, two puzzling questions emerge at two different levels of biological analysis: (1) Why does the brain, which perceives the social environment and regulates androgen production in the gonad, need feedback information from the gonad to adjust its social decision-making processes? (2) How does the brain regulate gonadal androgen responses to social challenges and how do these feedback into the brain? In this paper, we will address these two questions using the integrative approach proposed by Niko Tinbergen, who proposed that a full understanding of behavior requires its analysis at both proximate (physiology, ontogeny) and ultimate (ecology, evolution) levels. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4105629/ /pubmed/25100938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00209 Text en Copyright © 2014 Oliveira and Oliveira. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title_full Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title_fullStr Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title_full_unstemmed Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title_short Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
title_sort androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective
topic Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00209
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