{"id":178094,"date":"2023-12-12T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-cluster-of-genetically-defined-brainstem-neurons-involved-in-the-production-and-modulation-of-sounds"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:36:26","slug":"a-cluster-of-genetically-defined-brainstem-neurons-involved-in-the-production-and-modulation-of-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-cluster-of-genetically-defined-brainstem-neurons-involved-in-the-production-and-modulation-of-sounds","title":{"rendered":"A cluster of genetically defined brainstem neurons involved in the production and modulation of sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cluster-of-genetically-defined-brainstem-neurons-involved-in-the-production-and-modulation-of-sounds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans and other mammals can produce a wide range of sounds, while also modulating their volume and pitch. These sounds, also known as mammalian vocalizations, play a central role in communication between both animals of the same and of different species.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding the neural mechanisms underpinning the production and modulation of mammal vocalizations. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-023-01478-2\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, identifies a neural circuit and a set of genetically defined <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurons<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mouse+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mouse brain<\/a> that play a key role in the production of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sound\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll mammals, including humans, vocalize by pushing air past the vocal cords of the larynx, which vibrate to produce sound,\u201d Avin Veerakumar, co-author of the paper, told Medical Xpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans and other mammals can produce a wide range of sounds, while also modulating their volume and pitch. These sounds, also known as mammalian vocalizations, play a central role in communication between both animals of the same and of different species. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine recently carried out a study aimed at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}