Dr. David J. Perkel

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Cellular mechanisms of vocal learning in songbirds, Aug 1, 1998 to Jul 31, 2002.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Synaptic processing in a forebrain pathway essential for vocal learning in songbirds, Apr 1, 1999 to Mar 31, 2002.

• Park KH, Meitzen J, Moore IT, Brenowitz EA, Perkel DJ (2005) Seasonal-like plasticity of spontaneous firing rate in a songbird pre-motor nucleus, Journal of Neurobiology, 64 (2), 181-191
• Farries MA, Meitzen J, Perkel DJ (2005) Electrophysiological properties of neurons in the basal ganglia of the domestic chick: conservation and divergence in the evolution of the avian basal ganglia, Journal of Neurophysiology, 94 (1), 454-467
• Gale SD, Perkel DJ, Properties of Dopamine Release and Uptake in the Songbird Basal Ganglia., Journal of Neurophysiology, 93(4), 1871-9, Apr 2005
• Person AL, Perkel DJ (Apr 2005) Unitary IPSPs drive precise thalamic spiking in a circuit required for learning., 46 (1), 129-40
• Solis, MM, Perkel, DJ, Rhythmic Activity in a Forebrain Vocal Control Nucleus in Vitro, Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 2811-2822, 16 Mar 2005
• Farries MA, Ding L, Perkel DJ, Evidence for "direct" and "indirect" Pathways Through the Song System Basal Ganglia., The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 484(1), 93-104, Mar 2005
• Jarvis ED, Gunturkun O, Bruce L, Csillag A, Karten H, Kuenzel W, Medina L, Paxinos G, Perkel DJ, Shimizu T, Striedter G, Wild JM, Ball GF, Dugas-Ford J, Durand SE, Hough GE, Husband S, Kubikova L, Lee DW, Mello CV, Powers A, Siang C, Smulders TV, Wada K, White SA, Yamamoto K, Yu J, Reiner A, Butler AB, Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium, Avian Brains and a New Understanding of Vertebrate Brain Evolution., Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 6(2), 151-9, Feb 2005
• Perkel DJ, Origin of the Anterior Forebrain Pathway., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1016, 736-48, Jun 2004
• Reiner A, Perkel DJ, Mello CV, Jarvis ED, Songbirds and the Revised Avian Brain Nomenclature., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1016, 77-108, Jun 2004
• Reiner A, Perkel DJ, Bruce LL, Butler AB, Csillag A, Kuenzel W, Medina L, Paxinos G, Shimizu T, Striedter G, Wild M, Ball GF, Durand S, Gunturkun O, Lee DW, Mello CV, Powers A, White SA, Hough G, Kubikova L, Smulders TV, Wada K, Dugas-Ford J, Husband S, Yamamoto K, Yu J, Siang C, Jarvis ED, Guturkun O, Avian Brain Nomenclature Forum, Revised Nomenclature for Avian Telencephalon and Some Related Brainstem Nuclei., The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 473(3), 377-414, May 2004
• Ding L, Perkel DJ, Long-term potentiation in an avian basal ganglia nucleus essential for vocal learning, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 24(2), 488-94, 2004
• Ding L, Perkel DJ, Farries MA, Presynaptic depression of glutamatergic synaptic transmission by D1-like dopamine receptor activation in the avian basal ganglia, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 23(14), 6086-95, 2003
• Luo M, Perkel DJ, Intrinsic and synaptic properties of neurons in an avian thalamic nucleus during song learning, Journal of Neurophysiology, 88(4), 1903-14, 2002
• Farries MA, Perkel DJ, A telencephalic nucleus essential for song learning contains neurons with physiological characteristics of both striatum and globus pallidus, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 22(9), 3776-87, 2002
• Perkel DJ, Farries MA, Luo M, Ding L, Electrophysiological analysis of a songbird basal ganglia circuit essential for vocal plasticity, Brain Research Bulletin, 57(3-4), 529-32, 2002
• Luo M, Ding L, Perkel DJ, An avian basal ganglia pathway essential for vocal learning forms a closed topographic loop, Journal of Neuroscience, 21(17), 6836-45, 2001
• Perkel DJ, Farries MA, Complementary 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' approaches to basal ganglia function, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 10(6), 725-31, December 2000
• Kopp DM, Perkel DJ, Balice-Gordon RJ, Disparity in neurotransmitter release probability among competing inputs during neuromuscular synapse elimination, The Journal of Neuroscience [computer File], 20(23), 8771-9, 2000
• Dutar P, Petrozzino JJ, Vu HM, Schmidt MF, Perkel DJ, Slow synaptic inhibition mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptor activation of GIRK channels, Journal of Neurophysiology, 84(5), 2284-90, November 2000
• Farries MA, Perkel DJ, Electrophysiological properties of avian basal ganglia neurons recorded in vitro, Journal of Neurophysiology, 84(5), 2502-13, November 2000
• Nealen PM, Perkel DJ, Sexual dimorphism in the song system of the Carolina wren Thryothorus ludovicianus, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 418(3), 346-60, March 2000
• Stark LL, Perkel DJ, Two-stage, input-specific synaptic maturation in a nucleus essential for vocal production in the zebra finch, Journal of Neuroscience, 19(20), 9107-16, October 1999
• Luo M, Perkel DJ, A GABAergic, strongly inhibitory projection to a thalamic nucleus in the zebra finch song system., Journal of Neuroscience, 19(15), 6700-11, 1 Aug 1999
• Dutar P, Vu HM, Perkel DJ, Pharmacological characterization of an unusual mGluR-evoked neuronal hyperpolarization mediated by activation of GIRK channels., Neuropharmacology, 38(4), 467-75, April 1999
• Luo M, Perkel DJ, Long-range GABAergic projection in a circuit essential for vocal learning., Journal of Comparative Neurology, 403(1), 68-84, 5 Jan 1999
• Dutar P, Vu HM, Perkel DJ, Multiple cell types distinguished by physiological, pharmacological, and anatomic properties in nucleus HVc of the adult zebra finch, Journal of Neurophysiology, 80(4), 1828-38, October 1998
• Schmidt MF, Perkel DJ, Slow synaptic inhibition in nucleus HVc of the adult zebra finch, Journal of Neuroscience, 18(3), 895-904, February 1998