Sex Differences in Psychiatric Disease: A Focus on the Glutamate System

Alterations in glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, are implicated in several psychiatric diseases. Many of these psychiatric diseases display epidemiological sex differences, with either males or females exhibiting different symptoms or disease prevalence. However, littl...

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Main Authors: Megan M. Wickens, Debra A. Bangasser, Lisa A. Briand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00197/full