“…A growing body of evidence indicates sex-differences in these functions ( Cahill et al., 2004 ; Canli et al., 2002 ; Greiner et al., 2019 ; Gruene et al., 2015 ; Lebron-Milad and Milad, 2012 ). Moreover, the BLA is implicated in the etiology of neuropsychiatric diseases including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety ( Daviu et al., 2019 ; Mahan and Ressler, 2012 ; Nestler et al., 2002 ), characterized by their higher prevalence in the female population ( Christiansen and Berke, 2020 ; Kuehner, 2017 ; McLean et al., 2011 ).While the study of females’ brains and sex differences in preclinical research have recently gained momentum ( Shansky and Murphy, 2021 ), sex differences in the functions of the BLA have mostly been studied in pathological rodent models ( Blume et al., 2019 ; Geary et al., 2021 ; Guadagno et al., 2020 ; Przybysz et al., 2021 ) and the physiological development of the female BLA remains partially understood.…”