Sex-specific processing of social cues in the medial amygdala

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Bergan, Joseph F ^a   Ben Shaul, Yoram ^b   Dulac, Catherine ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84902664339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02743.001     Document Type: Article

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