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Female and flexible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Jane Stewart
Jane Stewart
Affiliation:
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada stewart@csbn.concordia.ca
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Abstract

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The fact that the female mammalian brain remains responsive to estrogens throughout life may open the way for other instigators of neuronal plasticity, making the female brain different from that of the male in its response to the actions of a number of hormones, to injury and to aging.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998, pp. 338
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press