Female rats are smarter than males: influence of test, oestrogen receptor subtypes and glutamate.

摘要: Interest in the influence of sex hormones within central nervous system is a rapidly expanding area research. A considerable amount evidence has recently been obtained to support an important role gonadal steroids cognitive processing. Not only are distinct and complementary behavioural phenotypes evident for each gender, case female but they also reliant upon hormonal status. Gender influences status thus paramount should encourage development more hypothesis-driven research strategies understand gender differences both normal behaviour where this altered neuropsychiatric disorders.