Trends in Neurosciences
Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2016, Pages 51-53
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Fight, Flight, or Freeze? The Answer May Depend on Your Sex

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Pavlovian fear conditioning is one of the most common and well-understood methods for studying fear learning. However, research is predominantly performed in males. Recently, in a classical Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm, Gruene and colleagues described an active conditioned fear response (‘darting’) prevalent in female rats that better maintain an extinction memory.

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