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Neuroscience: Sex Hormones at Work in the Neocortex
Kristen Delevich1, David Piekarski2, Linda Wilbrecht3
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|February 20, 2019
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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