S. Marc Breedlove
Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience
Depts. Psychology and Zoology
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
240 Giltner Hall
Office Telephone: 517-355-1749
breedsm@msu.edu
Research website
Developing and Adult Nervous System
I study the effect of steroid hormones on the developing and adult nervous system, including the sexual differentiation of the developing brain and spinal cord, as well as the activation of plasticity in the adult nervous system.
To learn more about our research visit our website.
Representative Publications
J.A.Morris, C.L.Jordan and S.M.Breedlove (2005) Partial demasculinization of several brain regions in adult male (XY) rats with a dysfunctional androgen receptor gene. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 487: 217-226.
E.N.Ottem, D.G.Zuloaga and S.M.Breedlove (2004) Brain gender: prostaglandins have their say. Nature Neuroscience, 7: 570-572.
N.V.Watson, L.M. Freeman and S.M. Breedlove (2001) Neuronal size in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB): direct modulation by androgen in animals with mosaic androgen insensitivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 21: 1062-1067.