This article is part of a Special Issue (“Estradiol and cognition”). Estrogens have repeatedly
been shown to influence a wide array of social behaviors, which in rodents are …

Males and females of most mammalian species depend on chemosignals to find, attract and
evaluate mates and, in most cases, these appetitive sexual behaviors are strongly …

Sex steroid hormones act on developing neural circuits regulating the hypothalamic‐
pituitary‐gonadal axis and are involved in hormone‐sensitive behaviours. These hormones …

Sociality comes with specific cognitive skills that allow the proper processing of information
about others (social recognition), as well as of information originating from others (social …

Intraspecific communication involves the activation of chemoreceptors and subsequent
activation of different central areas that coordinate the responses of the entire organism …

The posterodorsal medial amygdala (MePD) is a sex steroid-responsive area in the rat
brain. The dendritic spine density of Golgi-impregnated MePD neurons were studied in:(1) …

Sexual satiety is the inhibition of masculine mating behavior produced by copulation itself.
This inhibition is manifested in different ways depending upon the species, the time and the …

Reproductive aging in males is characterized by a diminution in sexual behavior beginning
in middle age. We investigated the relationships among testosterone, androgen receptor …

The existence of play, a form of behaviour without obvious benefits to survival or
reproduction, is a long-standing ethological mystery. Experiments in which socially deprived …

There are numerous evidence showing that cadmium (Cd) is an endocrine disruptor that
exerts multiple toxic effects at different reproductive levels, including male sexual behavior …