Dopamine: Helping males copulate for at least 200 million years: Theoretical comment on Kleitz-Nelson et al. (2010).

摘要: Brain dopamine (DA) systems are implicated in a variety of behavioral responses and clinical syndromes, including sex, drug addiction, feeding, satiety, sleep, wakefulness, arousal, attention, reward, decision-making, depression, anxiety, psychosis, movement disorders. The paper this issue by Kleitz-Nelson, Dominguez, Ball (2010) shows how DA release the medial preoptic area male quail activated an androgen-dependent manner during appetitive consummatory phases sexual behavior, similar to that reported previously rats. Those data suggest steroid-dependent role hypothalamic behavior has been conserved through evolutionary time.