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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 22.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2005 Jun;48(1):11–22. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.02.003

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Chemoarchictural themes of the social behavior network as exemplified in songbirds (photomontage of a female zebra finch brain at the level of the anterior commissure; AC). Immunohistochemical triple-labelling for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP; Alexa Fluor 488, green), neuropeptide Y (NPY; Alexa Fluor 594, red) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH; Alexa Fluor 350, pseudocolored purple) shows the location of multiple zones of the lateral septum (LS) and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) that are now known to be extensively comparable to mammals (see Aste et al., 1998; Goodson et al., 2004a; Richard et al., 2004). This labeling also clearly shows the medial and lateral divisions of the ventromedial hypothalamus (i.e., VMH core and shell, respectively), which exhibit a similar topography across the vertebrate taxa (see Table 1). Scale bar = 200 μm. Modified from Goodson et al., 2004a. Other abbreviations: AH, anterior hypothalamus; BSTm, medial bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; BSTl, lateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Hp, hippocampus; LSc, caudal division of the lateral septum (dorsal, ventrolateral, lateral and ventral zones denoted as LSc.d, LSc.vl, LSc.l and LSc.v, respectively); LSr, rostral division of the lateral septum; ME, median eminence; MS, medial septum; MSib, internal band of the medial septum; ot, optic tract; OM, occipitomesencephalic tract; PVN, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; SH, septohippocampal septum; v, lateral ventricle.