Marc Breedlove
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Marc Breedlove's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Marc Breedlove is the Barnett Rosenberg professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He was born and raised in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri. After graduating from Central High School in 1972, he earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Yale University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA in 1982. He was a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1982 to 2003, moving to Michigan State in 2001. He works in the fields of Behavioral Neuroscience and Neuroendocrinology. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Biological Sciences section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Marc Breedlove's Published Works
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- Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids on brain and behavior: A reanalysis (1985) (766)
- Sexual differentiation of the vertebrate nervous system (2004) (617)
- Hormone accumulation in a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus of the rat spinal cord. (1980) (599)
- Finger-length ratios and sexual orientation (2000) (575)
- Masculinized Finger Length Patterns in Human Males and Females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (2002) (500)
- Sexual Differentiation of the Vertebrate Brain: Principles and Mechanisms (1998) (482)
- Sexually dimorphic motor nucleus in the rat lumbar spinal cord: Response to adult hormone manipulation, absence in androgen-insensitive rats (1981) (414)
- Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science (2016) (380)
- A brain sexual dimorphism controlled by adult circulating androgens. (1999) (295)
- Hormonal control of a developing neuromuscular system. I. Complete Demasculinization of the male rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus using the anti-androgen flutamide (1983) (283)
- Hormonal control of a developing neuromuscular system. II. Sensitive periods for the androgen-induced masculinization of the rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (1983) (282)
- Sexual dimorphism in the vertebrate nervous system. (1992) (250)
- Minireview: Organizational hypothesis: instances of the fingerpost. (2010) (228)
- Spatial Ability and Prenatal Androgens: Meta-Analyses of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Studies (2008) (221)
- The role of androgen receptors in the masculinization of brain and behavior: What we've learned from the testicular feminization mutation (2008) (205)
- Sexual differentiation of the human nervous system. (1994) (188)
- Sexual dimorphism and the influence of neonatal androgen in the dorsolateral motor nucleus of the rat lumbar spinal cord (1982) (177)
- Seasonal variation in mammalian striated muscle mass and motoneuron morphology. (1987) (165)
- Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience (1996) (164)
- Overexpression of wild-type androgen receptor in muscle recapitulates polyglutamine disease (2007) (160)
- Differences in Finger Length Ratios Between Self-Identified “Butch” and “Femme” Lesbians (2002) (156)
- Sleep and waking activity of pontine gigantocellular field neurons (1977) (155)
- Sexual dimorphism in the vertebrate nervous system (1992) (149)
- Sexual dimorphism in digit‐length ratios of laboratory mice (2002) (148)
- Both estrogen receptors and androgen receptors contribute to testosterone-induced changes in the morphology of the medial amygdala and sexual arousal in male rats (2003) (126)
- Sex on the brain (1997) (125)
- Prenatal hormone exposure and risk for eating disorders: a comparison of opposite-sex and same-sex twins. (2008) (120)
- A Reanalysis of Five Studies on Sexual Orientation and the Relative Length of the 2nd and 4th Fingers (the 2D:4D Ratio) (2005) (120)
- Androgen alters the dendritic arbors of SNB motoneurons by acting upon their target muscles (1995) (120)
- Preliminary evidence that gonadal hormones organize and activate disordered eating (2005) (117)
- Masculinization of the female rat spinal cord following a single neonatal injection of testosterone propionate but not estradiol benzoate (1982) (117)
- Sexual dimorphism in human and canine spinal cord: role of early androgen. (1986) (116)
- Sex differences in the pattern of steroidaccumulation by motoneurons of the rat lumbar spinal cord (1983) (116)
- Cellular analyses of hormone influence on motoneuronal development and function. (1986) (113)
- Ciliary neurotrophic factor maintains motoneurons and their target muscles in developing rats (1993) (109)
- Potential hormonal mechanisms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder: A new perspective (2009) (106)
- Sexual dimorphism in neuronal number of the posterodorsal medial amygdala is independent of circulating androgens and regional volume in adult rats (2008) (100)
- Sexually dimorphic gastrin releasing peptide system in the spinal cord controls male reproductive functions (2008) (99)
- Evidence for androgen receptors in sexually dimorphic perineal muscles of neonatal male rats. Absence of androgen accumulation by the perineal motoneurons. (1990) (94)
- Sex differences and laterality in astrocyte number and complexity in the adult rat medial amygdala (2008) (93)
- Interaction of fraternal birth order and handedness in the development of male homosexuality (2006) (93)
- The Orthodox View of Brain Sexual Differentiation (1999) (91)
- Salivary testosterone does not predict mental rotation performance in men or women (2010) (82)
- Masculinized finger-length ratios of boys, but not girls, are associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (2008) (80)
- Sexual dimorphism and androgen effects on spinal motoneurons innervating the rat flexor digitorum brevis (1991) (80)
- Androgen Spares Androgen-Insensitive Motoneurons from Apoptosis in the Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus in Rats (1996) (79)
- Distribution of androgen receptor immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of wild‐type, androgen‐insensitive and gonadectomized male rats (1995) (77)
- Mice with the testicular feminization mutation demonstrate a role for androgen receptors in the regulation of anxiety-related behaviors and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (2008) (76)
- Sex difference and laterality in the volume of mouse dentate gyrus granule cell layer (1999) (74)
- Androgen locally regulates rat bulbocavernosus and levator ani size. (1992) (74)
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on 2D:4D Finger Length Ratios: A Study of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Male and Female Twins (2008) (73)
- Neuronal Size in the Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus: Direct Modulation by Androgen in Rats with Mosaic Androgen Insensitivity (2001) (69)
- Prenatal Influences on Human Sexual Orientation: Expectations versus Data (2017) (69)
- Post-weaning social isolation of male rats reduces the volume of the medial amygdala and leads to deficits in adult sexual behavior (2000) (69)
- Ontogeny of steroid accumulation in spinal lumbar motoneurons of the rat: Implications for androgen's site of action during synapse elimination (1991) (66)
- Hormonal control of the anatomical specificity of motoneuron-to-muscle innervation in rats. (1985) (65)
- Androgen-dependent regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and tyrosine kinase B in the sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus. (2007) (64)
- Steroid influences on the development and function of a neuromuscular system. (1984) (61)
- Neurogenesis of motoneurons in the sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus in rats. (1983) (56)
- Partial demasculinization of several brain regions in adult male (XY) rats with a dysfunctional androgen receptor gene (2005) (56)
- Androgen receptors are required for full masculinization of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) in rats (2007) (56)
- Neonatal androgen maintains sexually dimorphic muscles in the absence of innervation. (1988) (55)
- Sex differences in the traumatic stress response: PTSD symptoms in women recapitulated in female rats (2018) (55)
- Fulfilling desire: Evidence for negative feedback between men's testosterone, sociosexual psychology, and sexual partner number (2015) (54)
- Regulation of motoneuron death in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus. (1992) (51)
- Local perineal implants of anti-androgen block masculinization of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus. (1992) (51)
- Male rats with the testicular feminization mutation of the androgen receptor display elevated anxiety-related behavior and corticosterone response to mild stress (2011) (50)
- Sex differences in digit ratio (2D:4D) are disrupted in adolescents with schizotypal personality disorder: Altered prenatal gonadal hormone levels as a risk factor (2006) (49)
- The emergence of sex differences in risk for disordered eating attitudes during puberty: a role for prenatal testosterone exposure. (2013) (49)
- Motoneuronal death during human fetal development (1987) (48)
- Sexual dimorphism and steroid responsiveness of the posterodorsal medial amygdala in adult mice (2008) (48)
- Sexual dimorphism of perineal muscles and motoneurons in spotted hyenas (1996) (48)
- Differential effects of testosterone metabolites upon the size of sexually dimorphic motoneurons in adulthood (1992) (48)
- Impaired motoneuronal retrograde transport in two models of SBMA implicates two sites of androgen action. (2011) (47)
- Recovery of function in a myogenic mouse model of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (2009) (46)
- Through a glass, darkly: Human digit ratios reflect prenatal androgens, imperfectly (2020) (42)
- Androgen regulates the sexually dimorphic gastrin-releasing peptide system in the lumbar spinal cord that mediates male sexual function. (2009) (42)
- Androgen Receptor Expression in the Levator Ani Muscle of Male Mice (2007) (42)
- Sexual Differentiation of Brain and Behavior (2002) (42)
- Astrocytes in the rat medial amygdala are responsive to adult androgens (2012) (41)
- New knockout model confirms a role for androgen receptors in regulating anxiety-like behaviors and HPA response in mice (2014) (41)
- Homosexual Mating Preferences from an Evolutionary Perspective: Sexual Selection Theory Revisited (2007) (41)
- Brain Lesions Affect Penile Reflexes (1993) (39)
- Does androgen affect axonal transport of cholera toxin HRP in spinal motoneurons? (1991) (38)
- Ciliary neurotrophic factor arrests muscle and motoneuron degeneration in androgen-insensitive rats. (1995) (38)
- Brain sites projecting to the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (1991) (37)
- Stress Affects a Gastrin-Releasing Peptide System in the Spinal Cord That Mediates Sexual Function: Implications for Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction (2009) (36)
- Ontogeny of functional innervation of bulbocavernosus muscles in male and female rats. (1987) (36)
- The androgenic induction of spinal sexual dimorphism is independent of supraspinal afferents. (1985) (35)
- Sex differences in the traumatic stress response: the role of adult gonadal hormones (2018) (35)
- Steroid hormone masculinization of neural structure in rats: a tale of two nuclei (2004) (33)
- Anabolic responsiveness of skeletal muscles correlates with androgen receptor protein but not mRNA. (2006) (32)
- Androgens regulate the mammalian homologues of invertebrate sex determination genes tra-2 and fox-1. (2001) (31)
- Androgen-sensitivity of somata and dendrites of spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) motoneurons in male C57BL6J mice (2007) (31)
- Effects of the testicular feminization mutation (tfm) of the androgen receptor gene on BSTMPM volume and morphology in rats (2007) (31)
- The organizational role of testicular hormones and the androgen receptor in anxiety-related behaviors and sensorimotor gating in rats. (2011) (29)
- Prenatal Flutamide Enhances Survival in a Myogenic Mouse Model of Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (2010) (27)
- Got milk? Oxytocin triggers hippocampal plasticity (2003) (27)
- Neonatal Androgen and Estrogen Treatments Masculinize the Size of Motoneurons in the Rat Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus (1997) (26)
- Hand Asymmetry in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women: Relationship to 2D:4D Digit Ratios and Other Sexually Dimorphic Anatomical Traits (2008) (26)
- Androgen receptors mediate masculinization of astrocytes in the rat posterodorsal medial amygdala during puberty (2013) (26)
- The increasingly plastic, hormone-responsive adult brain (2001) (25)
- The role of the bulbocavernosus in penile reflex behavior in rats (1992) (25)
- Neonatal androgen maintains sexually dimorphic muscles in the absence of innervation (1988) (25)
- Social Cues Attenuate Photoresponsiveness of the Male Reproductive System in Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) (1999) (25)
- Neuromuscular junctions are pathological but not denervated in two mouse models of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy. (2016) (24)
- Neonatal androgen‐dependent sex differences in lumbar spinal cord dopamine concentrations and the number of A11 diencephalospinal dopamine neurons (2010) (24)
- Androgen receptors in muscle fibers induce rapid loss of force but not mass: Implications for spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (2013) (23)
- Distribution of androgen receptor immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of wild-type, androgen-insensitive and gonadectomized male rats. (1995) (23)
- Steroid influences on a mammalian neuromuscular system (1991) (23)
- Defects in Neuromuscular Transmission May Underlie Motor Dysfunction in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (2016) (23)
- Contractile dysfunction in muscle may underlie androgen-dependent motor dysfunction in spinal bulbar muscular atrophy. (2015) (23)
- Photoperiod and social cues influence the medial amygdala but not the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the Siberian hamster (2001) (22)
- Photoperiod-Dependent Response to Androgen in the Medial Amygdala of the Siberian Hamster, Phodopus sungorus (2002) (22)
- The De-Scent of Sexuality: Did Loss of a Pheromone Signaling Protein Permit the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Primates? (2019) (22)
- Seasonal plasticity of neuromuscular junctions in adult male Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) (1999) (21)
- Age differences in prenatal testosterone's protective effects on disordered eating symptoms: developmental windows of expression? (2015) (20)
- Down, But Not Out: Partial Elimination of Androgen Receptors in the Male Mouse Brain Does Not Affect Androgenic Regulation of Anxiety or HPA Activity. (2016) (20)
- A behavioral and polygraphic study of sleep in the shrews Suncus murinus, Blarina brevicauda, and Cryptotis parva. (1977) (19)
- Antiandrogen flutamide protects male mice from androgen-dependent toxicity in three models of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy. (2014) (19)
- With a little help from my friends: Androgens tap BDNF signaling pathways to alter neural circuits (2013) (19)
- Differential expression and regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA isoforms in androgen-sensitive motoneurons of the rat lumbar spinal cord (2010) (18)
- Evidence That Androgen Acts Through NMDA Receptors to Affect Motoneurons in the Rat Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus (2002) (18)
- Human trust: Testosterone raises suspicion (2010) (18)
- Androgen-dependent loss of muscle BDNF mRNA in two mouse models of SBMA (2015) (17)
- What Neuromuscular Systems Tell Us about Hormones and Behavior (2002) (17)
- Photoperiod and Androgens Act Independently to Induce Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus Neuromuscular Plasticity in the Siberian Hamster, Phodopus sungorus (2002) (16)
- Sex and laterality differences in medial amygdala neurons and astrocytes of adult mice (2016) (16)
- Gonadal Steroids Regulate Neural Plasticity in the Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus of the Preoptic Area of Adult Male and Female Rats (2008) (16)
- Motoneurons innervating guinea pig perineal muscles are sexually dimorphic in size but not number (1995) (16)
- No evidence that hormonal contraceptive use or circulating sex steroids predict complex emotion recognition (2019) (15)
- Digit ratio: A pointer to fertility, behavior, and health (2003) (14)
- Brain aromatase: dyed-in-the-wool homosexuality. (2004) (14)
- Effects of sex hormones on associative learning in spontaneously hypertensive rats (2008) (14)
- Pubertal growth of the medial amygdala delayed by short photoperiods in the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus (2007) (14)
- Sexual Differentiation of the Brain (2009) (13)
- Short day lengths delay development of the SNB neuromuscular system in the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus. (1998) (13)
- O brother, where art thou? The fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation. (2006) (13)
- Ontogeny of androgen receptor expression in spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus motoneurons and their target muscles in male mice (2012) (12)
- Brain stem units related to movements of the pinna (1980) (12)
- Progress report on a hormonally sensitive neuromuscular system (1988) (12)
- Neonatal Androgen and Estrogen Treatments Masculinize the Size of Motoneurons in the Rat Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus (2004) (12)
- Time course of adult castration-induced changes in soma size of motoneurons in the rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (2009) (11)
- Defending the brain from estrogen (2006) (11)
- Muscle BDNF improves synaptic and contractile muscle strength in Kennedy's disease mice in a muscle‐type specific manner (2020) (11)
- Regional sex differences in steroid accumulation in the nervous system (1983) (11)
- Steroid Receptors in the Central Nervous System (1993) (10)
- Hormone-sensitive periods for the control of motoneuron number and soma size in the dorsolateral nucleus of the rat spinal cord (1993) (10)
- Differences in digit ratios between gay men who prefer receptive versus insertive sex roles indicate a role for prenatal androgen (2021) (9)
- Ontogeny of calcitonin gene‐related peptide immunoreactivity in rat lumbar motoneurons: Delayed appearance and sexual dimorphism in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (1993) (8)
- Timing of peripubertal steroid exposure predicts visuospatial cognition in men: Evidence from three samples (2020) (8)
- Behavioural neurobiology: Females can also be from Mars (2007) (8)
- Non-Cell-Autonomous Regulation of Retrograde Motoneuronal Axonal Transport in an SBMA Mouse Model (2016) (7)
- Pre-clinical symptoms of SBMA may not be androgen-dependent: implications from two SBMA mouse models (2018) (7)
- Another important organ (1995) (6)
- The Testosterone Two-Step Is Really a Minuet (2010) (6)
- Operant conditioning of pontine gigantocellular units (1979) (6)
- Disease Affects Bdnf Expression in Synaptic and Extrasynaptic Regions of Skeletal Muscle of Three SBMA Mouse Models (2019) (6)
- Photographic analysis of relation between unit activity and movement (1979) (6)
- The Mind's Machine: Foundations of Brain and Behavior (2012) (5)
- Short Day Lengths Affect Perinatal Development of the Male Reproductive System in the Siberian Hamster, Phodopus sungorus (1999) (5)
- Relationships between ovarian hormone concentrations and mental rotations performance in naturally-cycling women (2020) (5)
- Pubertal timing predicts adult psychosexuality: Evidence from typically developing adults and adults with isolated GnRH deficiency (2020) (5)
- Testosterone works through androgen receptors to modulate neuronal response to anxiogenic stimuli (2021) (4)
- Oestrogen and androgen receptor activation contribute to the masculinisation of oxytocin receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of rats (2019) (4)
- Erratum: Lineage of motoneurons in chick spinal cord studied with a retroviral marker (Ann Neural 1989;26;447A) (1990) (3)
- Neuroendocrine Influences on Human Sexuality (2019) (3)
- Sexual Differentiation of a Neuromuscular System (1999) (3)
- The under-appreciated role of the androgen receptor (AR) in sexual differentiation of the brain (2009) (2)
- Sexuality. Another important organ. (1995) (2)
- Replicable data for digit ratio differences (2019) (2)
- Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology (2)
- Brain gender: prostaglandins have their say (2004) (2)
- Book Review Sexing The Body: Gender politics and the construction of sexuality By Anne Fausto-Sterling. 485 pp., illustrated. New York, Basic Books, 2000. $35. 0-465-07713-7 (2000) (2)
- Heterozygosity of the major histocompatibility complex predicts later self-reported pubertal maturation in men (2021) (1)
- Evidence for Perinatal Steroid Influence on Human Sexual Orientation and Gendered Behavior. (2021) (1)
- Prenatal Influences on Human Sexual Orientation: Expectations versus Data (2017) (1)
- O Gay New World: Ramifications of the Maternal Immune Hypothesis (2018) (1)
- Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women’s sexual attraction to men (2021) (1)
- Seductive allure of dichotomies (1998) (1)
- Consequences of cesarean delivery for neural development (2018) (1)
- Book Review: Human Sexuality. By Simon LeVay and Sharon M. Valente. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, 2003, 628 pp., $88.95 (2004) (1)
- Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men (2021) (1)
- "Sexual orientation, controversy, and science": Corrigendum. (2016) (1)
- Author ' s personal copy Recovery of function in a myogenic mouse model of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (2009) (0)
- Fraternizing with gender differences (2008) (0)
- Neurochemicals Drawing the Line Between Love and Hate (2017) (0)
- Sexually dimorphic gastrin-releasing peptide system in the lumbar spinal cord controls masculine reproductive functions in rats (2009) (0)
- Steroidal and environmental influences on sexual differentiation of behavior (Special lecture) (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- Neurobiology of PTSD: Effects on the spinal cord (2011) (0)
- Response to Commentaries (2017) (0)
- 1 1 Contractile dysfunction in muscle may underlie androgen-dependent 2 motor dysfunction in spinal bulbar muscular atrophy 3 4 running title : Contractile dysfunction underlies motor dysfunction in SBMA 5 6 (2015) (0)
- The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Table of Content, Vol. 524, No. 12, August 15, 2016 (2016) (0)
- The De-Scent of Sexuality: Did Loss of a Pheromone Signaling Protein Permit the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Primates? (2019) (0)
- "Sexual orientation, controversy, and science": Erratum. (2017) (0)
- Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology. Volume 11: Sexual Differentiation.Arnold A. Gerall , Howard Moltz , Ingeborg L. Ward (1993) (0)
- Study guide to accompany biological psychology (1999) (0)
- Effects of photoperiod and androgen in the medial amygdala of the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus (2000) (0)
- Response to Commentaries: Sniffing Out Consensus on the Evolution of Primate Same-Sex Sexual Behavior (2021) (0)
- O Gay New World: Ramifications of the Maternal Immune Hypothesis (2017) (0)
- SEXUAL DIFFEREN TIATION OF THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM (1994) (0)
- Two Views of Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: A Brain Divided. (1993) (0)
- Sex differences in the traumatic stress response: the role of adult gonadal hormones (2018) (0)
- Operant Conditioning of Pontine Gigantocellular Units 1 (2003) (0)
- Sex differences in the traumatic stress response: PTSD symptoms in women recapitulated in female rats (2018) (0)
- Love and pain meet in the brain (2003) (0)
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