Neuroscience: A Male-Specific Pain Memory Mechanism

Stephanie Shiers; Theodore J Price

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.062

Neuroscience: A Male-Specific Pain Memory Mechanism

Curr Biol. 2019 Jan 21;29(2):R50-R52. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.062.

Authors

Stephanie Shiers¹, Theodore J Price²

Affiliations

¹ School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 30668946
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.062

Abstract

Memories of painful events protect us from danger. A new study demonstrates that, in both mice and humans, pain memories elicited by place conditioning are driven by spinal mechanisms, involve stress circuits and are surprisingly only found in males.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Male
Memory*
Mice
Neurosciences*
Pain