Jill B. Becker

ORCID: 0000-0003-3880-6408
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Research Areas
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Hormonal and reproductive studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices
  • Neurological and metabolic disorders
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects

University of Michigan
2016-2025

Individual Differences
2025

Pennsylvania State University
2022

University of Kansas
2022

Clackamas Community College
2022

Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
2021

Michigan United
2013-2020

Neurosciences Institute
2019-2020

Neuroscience Institute
1982-2019

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2016

Not including female rats or mice in neuroscience research has been justified due to the variable nature of data caused by hormonal fluctuations associated with reproductive cycle. In this study, we investigated whether are more than male scientific reports neuroscience-related traits.PubMed and Web Science were searched for period from August 1, 2010, July 31, 2014, articles that included both measured diverse aspects brain function. Only empirical using gonad-intact adult rats, written...

10.1186/s13293-016-0087-5 article EN cc-by Biology of Sex Differences 2016-07-26

Abstract The nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) system is sexually dimorphic. In female but not male rats, striatal DA activity modulated by gonadal steroid hormones. Ovariectomy (OVX) decreases release and turnover. Estrogen replacement restores the response to that of intact in estrus. contrast, castration (CAST) rats has no effect on stimulated from tissue. This report addresses question: Dose estrogen act directly striatum induce changes release? Physiological concentrations 17b̃‐estradiol...

10.1002/syn.890050211 article EN Synapse 1990-01-01

In this review we propose that there are sex differences in how men and women enter onto the path can lead to addiction. Males more likely than females engage risky behaviors include experimenting with drugs of abuse, susceptible individuals, they drawn into spiral eventually Women girls begin taking as self-medication reduce stress or alleviate depression. For reason downward further along addiction, so transition addiction rapidly. We difference is due, at least part, organization neural...

10.1186/2042-6410-3-14 article EN cc-by Biology of Sex Differences 2012-01-01

Women exhibit more rapid escalation from casual drug taking to addiction, a greater withdrawal response with abstinence, and tend vulnerability than men in terms of treatment outcome. In rodents, short-term estradiol intake female rats enhances acquisition taking, motivation for drugs abuse, relapse-like behaviors. There is also sex difference the dopamine nucleus accumbens. Ovariectomized smaller initial increase after cocaine castrated males. Estradiol ovariectomized stimulated release...

10.31887/dcns.2016.18.4/jbecker article EN cc-by-nc-nd Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 2016-12-31
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