Background: Although the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is twice as
high in women as it is in men, the role of estrogen in the risk for PTSD is not well understood …

BACKGROUND: Women are twice as likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
than men. As shown in our previous work, the inability to suppress fear responses in safe …

Background Fear responding in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is sexually
heterogeneous and varies with hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle. While …

Classical fear acquisition and extinction are important models for the etiology and treatment
of anxiety disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Women are at a higher …

Women are disproportionately affected by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and
gonadal hormones are implicated in fear learning processes associated with PTSD. In …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric illness whose prevalence in women is
more than twice the rate as men. Despite a burgeoning literature characterizing sex …

Background Findings about sex differences in the field of fear conditioning and fear
extinction have been mixed. At the psychophysiological level, sex differences emerge only …

The sex hormone estradiol has a modifying role in the underlying neurobiology of cognitive
emotion regulation, although whether estradiol is associated with outcomes of techniques …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects millions of people who experience trauma in a
given year and women are twice as likely to develop PTSD (1). Many preclinical and clinical …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be conceptualized as a disorder of emotional
memory showing strong (conditioned) responses to trauma reminders and intrusive …