Molecular Underpinnings of Estradiol-Mediated Sexual Dimorphism of Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus of Rodents

On a population level, males and females excel at different kinds of memory tasks. In particular, men overall have a greater ability to remember spatial representations, whereas women perform better on tasks requiring semantic memory ([Andreano and Cahill, 2009][1]). Initial encoding of different