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Sexual Differentiation of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis in Humans May Extend into Adulthood
1 Feb 2002
Abstract excerpt
Gonadal steroids have remarkable developmental effects on sex-dependent brain organization and behavior in animals. Presumably, fetal or neonatal gonadal steroids are also responsible for sexual differentiation of the human brain. A limbic structure of special interest in this regard is the sexually dimorphic central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc), because its size has been related...
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