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Sex differences in the neurobiology of fear conditioning and extinction: a preliminary fMRI study of shared sex differences with stress-arousal circuitry

BACKGROUND: The amygdala, hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and brain-stem subregions are implicated in fear conditioning and extinction, and are brain regions known to be sexually dimorphic. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate sex differences in brain acti...

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Autores principales: Lebron-Milad, Kelimer, Abbs, Brandon, Milad, Mohammed R, Linnman, Clas, Rougemount-Bücking, Ansgar, Zeidan, Mohammed A, Holt, Daphne J, Goldstein, Jill M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22738021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-5380-2-7