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Sex-specific behaviors and the rat amygdala

Jul 23, 2007 08:25

Cooke et al (2007) discuss morphological differences in the medial amygdala (MeA) posterodorsal subnucleus (MeApd). The medial amygdala, according to Cooke et al, "is crucial in the expression of sex-specific social behaviors." Using electron microscopy, Cooke et al found that the left MeApd is larger in male rats than in female rats (both ( Read more... )

s mizukami, medial amygdala, laterality, sex, bradley cooke, gender differences, brains, neurons, constanza villalba, animal studies, dendrites, sex differences, rat studies, neuroscience, d w rowe, geert j de vries, m s erskine, amygdala, rats

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differenceblog July 23 2007, 16:21:36 UTC

Usually I try to ask people for sources for "well-established" facts, but I suspect you're citing Summers and Pinker (2005), right?

this response given with just as much tongue-in-cheek as I suspect the OP of using