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Aubrey M. Kelly
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 36
Citations - 1100
Aubrey M. Kelly is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Vasopressin. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 25 publications receiving 884 citations. Previous affiliations of Aubrey M. Kelly include Indiana University & Cornell University.
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Evolving nonapeptide mechanisms of gregariousness and social diversity in birds.
TL;DR: A research program is described that has leveraged the social diversity of estrildid finches to gain insights into the nonapeptide mechanisms of grouping, a behavioral dimension that is not experimentally tractable in most other taxa.
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Social functions of individual vasopressin-oxytocin cell groups in vertebrates: what do we really know?
Aubrey M. Kelly,James L. Goodson +1 more
TL;DR: What is actually known about the social behavior functions of nonapeptide cell groups is reviewed, with a focus on aggression, affiliation, bonding, social stress, and parental behavior, and recent studies that demonstrate a diversity of sex-specific contributions of VP-OT cell groups to gregariousness and pair bonding are discussed.
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Midbrain dopamine neurons reflect affiliation phenotypes in finches and are tightly coupled to courtship
TL;DR: Findings for the ventral tegmental area of the VTA suggest that divergent social phenotypes may arise due to the differential assignment of “incentive value” to conspecific stimuli.
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Vasotocin neurons and septal V1a-like receptors potently modulate songbird flocking and responses to novelty.
Aubrey M. Kelly,Marcy A. Kingsbury,Kristin Hoffbuhr,Sara E. Schrock,Brandon Waxman,David Kabelik,Richmond R. Thompson,James L. Goodson +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that intraseptal infusions of a V(1a) antagonist in male zebra finches reduce gregariousness, but have no effect on the amount of time that subjects spend in close proximity to other birds ("contact time").
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Hypothalamic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons exert sex-specific effects on pair bonding, gregariousness, and aggression in finches.
Aubrey M. Kelly,James L. Goodson +1 more
TL;DR: Paraventricular neurons are major contributors to the effects of VP-OT peptides on pair bonding and gregariousness, and the observed effects of OT knockdown on feeding and stress coping parallel findings in mammals, suggesting that OT modulation of these processes is evolutionarily conserved across the amniote vertebrate classes.