Neuroscience: Sex Hormones at Work in the Neocortex

Kristen Delevich¹, David Piekarski², Linda Wilbrecht³

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¹ Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, War Related Injury and Illness Study Center, 3801 Miranda Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: wilbrecht@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 30779899
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.013

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Neuroscience: Sex Hormones at Work in the Neocortex

Kristen Delevich et al. Curr Biol. 2019.

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. 2019 Feb 18;29(4):R122-R125.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.013.

Authors

Kristen Delevich¹, David Piekarski², Linda Wilbrecht³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, War Related Injury and Illness Study Center, 3801 Miranda Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: wilbrecht@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 30779899
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.013

Abstract

Sex hormones have easy access to the brain and their receptors are expressed by cortical neurons. Until recently, little was known about what impact, if any, they have on cortical processing. New data reveal that estradiol potently alters inhibitory neurotransmission in the neocortex.

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Estrus-Cycle Regulation of Cortical Inhibition.
Clemens AM, Lenschow C, Beed P, Li L, Sammons R, Naumann RK, Wang H, Schmitz D, Brecht M. Clemens AM, et al. Curr Biol. 2019 Feb 18;29(4):605-615.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.045. Epub 2019 Feb 7. Curr Biol. 2019. PMID: 30744972

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