TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Fight, flight, or freeze? The answer may depend on your sex JO - Trends in neurosciences A1 - Jones, Carolyn E. A1 - Monfils, Marie-H SP - 51 EP - 53 VL - 39 IS - 2 N2 - 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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