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Testosterone biases the amygdala toward social threat approach

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Radke, Sina, Volman, Inge, Mehta, Pranjal, van Son, Veerle, Enter, Dorien, Sanfey, Alan, Toni, Ivan, de Bruijn, Ellen R. A. +1 more·2015·Science Advances

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Testosterone administration in human participants increased amygdala responses during threat approach and decreased it during threat avoidance.

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  • Testosterone is implicated in the modulation of PFC activity; when increased, it may affect fear-processing circuitry, which has been associated with reactive and abnormal aggressive responses.

    “Testosterone is a sex hormone that has been implicated in the modulation of PFC activity; when increased, it may affect fear-processing circuitry, which has been associated with reactive and abnormal aggressive responses [52, 53].”

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Authors
Radke, S., Volman, I., Mehta, P., van Son, V., Enter, D., Sanfey, A., Toni, I., de Bruijn, E. R. A., & Roelofs, K.
Affiliations
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
  • University of Oregon (US)
  • Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Leiden University (NL)
  • Department of Clinical Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, Netherlands.
Corresponding author
Radke, Sina
Venue
Science Advances
Published
2015-06-05
Volume
1
Issue
5
Pages
e1400074-e1400074
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2141789543
Cited by
112
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 2
FWCI
20.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)
Funders
  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (ID0EREBG1183, 453-12-001, ID0E2HBG1185, 016-135-367, ID0ERJBG1186, 452-07-008)
  • European Research Council (ID0EFGBG1184, ERC_StG2012_313749)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
testosterone, amygdala, social danger, threat avoidance, dominance, motivational salience, neuroendocrine regulation, sex differences

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