Psychedelics are a broad class of drugs defined by their ability to induce an altered state of
consciousness,. These drugs have been used for millennia in both spiritual and medicinal …

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hearing and balance disorders caused by loss of
the sensory hair cells that convert sound vibrations and head movements into electrical …

The ears of nonmammalian vertebrates are capable of regenerating sensory hair cells after
acoustic trauma or ototoxic injury. In contrast, the mammalian inner ear lacks regenerative …

The hypothesis that children surpass adults in long-term second-language proficiency is
accepted as evidence for a critical period for language. However, the scope and nature of a …

As psychedelic compounds gain traction in psychiatry, there is a need to consider the active
mechanism to explain the effect observed in randomized clinical trials. Traditionally …

In both humans and songbirds, infants learn vocalizations by imitating the sounds of adult
tutors with whom they interact during an early sensitive period. Vocal learning occurs in few …

Humans learn to speak by a process of vocal imitation that requires the availability of
auditory feedback. Similarly, young birds rely on auditory feedback when learning to imitate …

In contrast to mammals, birds recover naturally from acquired hearing loss, which makes
them an ideal model for inner ear regeneration research. Here, we present a validated …

The discovery of hair cell regeneration in the inner ear of birds provides new optimism that
there may be a treatment for hearing and balance disorders. In this review we describe the …

The study of bird song is a favorite textbook example in ethology (Alcock, 2001; Manning
and Dawkins, 1998; McFarland, 1999; Slater, 1999). Bird song is a behavior well suited to …