Sex differences in sleep: impact of biological sex and sex steroids

JA Mong, DM Cusmano - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Men and women sleep differently. While much is known about the mechanisms that drive
sleep, the reason for these sex differences in sleep behaviour is unknown and understudied …

Sex differences in circadian timing systems: implications for disease

M Bailey, R Silver - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Virtually every eukaryotic cell has an endogenous circadian clock and a biological sex.
These cell-based clocks have been conceptualized as oscillators whose phase can be reset …

Exploring sex and gender differences in sleep health: a Society for Women's Health Research Report

MP Mallampalli, CL Carter - Journal of women's health, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Previous attempts have been made to address sleep disorders in women; however,
significant knowledge gaps in research and a lack of awareness among the research …

The neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness

MD Schwartz, TS Kilduff - Psychiatric Clinics, 2015 - psych.theclinics.com
Our understanding of the neural control of sleep in large part parallels the history of
neuroscience. As new tools and methodologies have become available to the research …

Sleep, rhythms, and the endocrine brain: influence of sex and gonadal hormones

JA Mong, FC Baker, MM Mahoney, KN Paul… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
While much is known about the mechanisms that underlie sleep and circadian rhythms, the
investigation into sex differences and gonadal steroid modulation of sleep and biological …

[HTML][HTML] APOE-ε4 synergizes with sleep disruption to accelerate Aβ deposition and Aβ-associated tau seeding and spreading

C Wang, A Nambiar, MR Strickland… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. The APOE-ε4 allele of the
apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset AD. The …

[HTML][HTML] The stress of losing sleep: Sex-specific neurobiological outcomes

CJ Wright, S Milosavljevic, A Pocivavsek - Neurobiology of stress, 2023 - Elsevier
Sleep is a vital and evolutionarily conserved process, critical to daily functioning and
homeostatic balance. Losing sleep is inherently stressful and leads to numerous detrimental …

Sleep during development: sex and gender differences

P Franco, B Putois, A Guyon, A Raoux… - Sleep Medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sleep occupies a substantial proportion of life. Sleep modifications parallel brain
development during childhood. Sex and gender differences have been reported in brain …

Sex differences in circadian rhythms

JC Walton, JR Bumgarner… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Sex as a biological variable is the focus of much literature and has been emphasized by the
National Institutes of Health, in part, to remedy a long history of male-dominated studies in …

[HTML][HTML] Narrative review: The role of circadian rhythm on sports performance, hormonal regulation, immune system function, and injury prevention in athletes

H Nobari, S Azarian, S Saedmocheshi… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Objectives This study was a narrative review of the importance of circadian rhythm (CR),
describes the underlying mechanisms of CR in sports performance, emphasizes the …