Sex differences in conditioned stimulus discrimination during context-dependent fear learning and its retrieval in humans: the role of biological sex, contraceptives and menstrual cycle phases
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience2015Vol. 40(6), pp. 368–375
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Tina B. Lonsdorf, Jan Haaker, Dirk Schümann, Tobias Sommer, Janine Bayer, Stefanie Brassen, Nico Bunzeck, Matthias Gamer, Raffaël Kalisch
Abstract
The response pattern in women shows striking similarity to previously reported sex differences in patients with anxiety. Our results suggest that pronounced deficits in associative discrimination learning and subjective expression of safety information (CS- responses) might underlie higher prevalence and higher symptom rates seen in women with anxiety disorders. The data call for consideration of biological sex and hormonal contraceptive use in future studies and may suggest that targeting inhibitory learning during therapy might aid precision medicine.
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