Behavioural neuroscience: Fighting females

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 643 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.132 Author: Sian Lewis The ventromedial hypothalamus (VMLvl) has been shown to play a key role in aggression in male mice, but whether it plays a similar role in females remains controversial. Both aggression-inducing conditions and mating increased directly measured neural activity in oestrogen-expressing neurons in the VMLvl. In
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