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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2026

Editorial: Sex as a biological variable in the neurocircuitry of motivated behavior.

Paul Leon Brown, Polymnia Georgiou, Amy Stave Kohtz, Antoniette M Maldonado-Devincci

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Paul Leon BrownDepartment of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Polymnia GeorgiouDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States.
Amy Stave KohtzDepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States.
Antoniette M Maldonado-DevincciDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, United States.

Funding

Estrogen modulation of the lateral habenula and its ability to inhibit midbrain dopamine neuronsR21MH129809 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI BROWN, PAUL LEON · 2023 to 2024
$415k
NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH129809
6 · The paper itself

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dopamineestrogenmotivationrewardtestosterone

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PMID41799246
PMCPMC12960293

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