Basal ganglia: Bursting with song

Melissa J Coleman; Stephanie A White

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.064

Basal ganglia: Bursting with song

Curr Biol. 2021 Jun 21;31(12):R791-R793. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.064.

Authors

Melissa J Coleman¹, Stephanie A White²

Affiliations

¹ W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont, McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. Electronic address: mcoleman@kecksci.claremont.edu.
² Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: sawhite@ucla.edu.

PMID: 34157263
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.064

Abstract

The songs of mature zebra finches are notoriously repetitious, or 'crystallized'. Despite this stability, new work reveals that chronic pharmacologically driven bursting of cortical inputs to the basal ganglia can drive cumulative and lasting changes to multiple vocal features, including phenomena reminiscent of human stuttering.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Basal Ganglia
Finches*
Vocalization, Animal