Sexual differentiation of neural mechanisms of stress sensitivity during puberty
Emily C. Wright, Pei X. Luo, Hannah Cortez Zakharenkov, Alexandra Serna Godoy, Alyssa A. Lake, Zhana D. Prince, Shwetha Sekar, Hannah I. Culkin, Alison V. Ramirez, Tjien Dwyer, Amita Kapoor, Cody Corbett, Lin Tian, Andrew S. Fox, Brian C. Trainor
The paper shows that pubertal androgen exposure programs adult behavioral responses to social defeat stress, with effects mediated by the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Oct 17, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience