Current projects include ontogeny and hormonal control of sex differences in spinal nuclei, functional and morphological plasticity in hormonally sensitive neurons, and determination of neuronal morphology and connectivity of spinal motoneurons. Synergistic effects of testosterone metabolites on the development of motoneuron morphology in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. Denervation-induced sprouting of intact peripheral afferents into the cuneate nucleus of adult rats. Visual and song nuclei correlate with courtship skills in bown-headed cowbirds. Prenatal gonadal steroids affect adult spatial behavior, CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cell morphology in rats.
Aromatase inhibition reduces dendritic growth in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus.