title: Fight, Flight, or Freeze? The Answer May Depend on Your Sex.
abstract: Pavlovian fear conditioning is one of the most common and well-understood methods for studying fear learning. However, research is predominantly performed in males. Recently, in a classical Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm, Gruene and colleagues described an active conditioned fear response ('darting') prevalent in female rats that better maintain an extinction memory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, A8000 Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, A8000 Austin, TX 78712, USA. Electronic address: marie.monfils@utexas.edu.
authors.forename: Marie-H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Monfils
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male
keywords: escape; fear conditioning; females; sex differences