Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, War Related Injury and Illness Study Center, 3801 Miranda Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Curr Biol. 2019 Feb 18;29(4):R122-R125. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.013.
Sex hormones have easy access to the brain and their receptors are expressed by cortical neurons. Until recently, little was known about what impact, if any, they have on cortical processing. New data reveal that estradiol potently alters inhibitory neurotransmission in the neocortex.
性激素可轻易进入大脑,其受体由皮质神经元表达。直到最近,人们还不太清楚它们对皮质处理有什么影响(如果有的话)。新的数据显示,雌二醇能强烈改变新皮层中的抑制性神经传递。