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Medicine · Neurology
A new study published in Physiology & Behavior characterizes sex-specific neural activation patterns in response to both acute and chronic restraint stress in a mouse model. Researchers mapped brain-wide c-Fos expression to identify distinct neuronal circuits activated in male versus female mice under these stress paradigms. For a neuroscientist developing preclinical models of placebo analgesia and chronic pain, this work is directly relevant as it provides a mechanistic framework for understanding how biological sex may influence stress-related neural circuitry, a critical factor in refining translational pain models and interpreting sex-dependent variability in pain and placebo responses.
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