The neurobiological basis of sex differences in learned fear and its inhibition

• Published in: The European journal of neuroscience Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 2466 - 2486
• Main Authors: Day, Harriet L. L., Stevenson, Carl W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Brain; discrimination; extinction; Extinction behavior; Extinction, Psychological; Fear; fear conditioning; Female; Gender differences; generalization; Humans; Learning; Male; Neural networks; Neurobiology; Sex Characteristics; Sex differences; Sex Differences in Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology; Special Issue Review; Survival; Trauma; discrimination; extinction; fear conditioning; female; generalization; male

Learning that certain cues or environments predict threat enhances survival by promoting appropriate fear and the resulting defensive responses. Adapting to changing stimulus contingencies by learning that such cues no longer predict threat, or distinguishing between these threat‐related and other i...