Robert Sapolsky

Publication Details

• Disruption of fear memory through dual-hormone gene therapy.

  Rodrigues SM, Sapolsky RM. Biol Psychiatry. 2009; 65 (5): 441-4

  The basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) is uniquely affected by steroid hormones. Whereas glucocorticoids (GCs)--the adrenal hormones released during stress--increase the excitability of BLA neurons, estrogen decreases it.

  PubMedID: 18973875