Stress-induced disturbances along the gut microbiota-immune-brain axis and implications for mental health: Does sex matter?

MC Audet - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Women are roughly twice as likely as men to suffer from stress-related disorders, especially
major depression and generalized anxiety. Accumulating evidence suggest that microbes …

Transcriptomic sex differences in postmortem brain samples from patients with psychiatric disorders

Y Xia, C Xia, Y Jiang, Y Chen, J Zhou, R Dai… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Many psychiatric disorders exhibit sex differences, but the underlying mechanisms remain
poorly understood. We analyzed transcriptomics data from 2160 postmortem adult prefrontal …

A new view of sexual differentiation of mammalian brain

MM McCarthy - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2020 - Springer
Establishment of enduring sex differences in brain and behavior occurs during pre-or
perinatal development, depending on species. For over 50 years the focus has been on …

Gender and sex in eating disorders: A narrative review of the current state of knowledge, research gaps, and recommendations

É Breton, RP Juster, L Booij - Brain and behavior, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction Eating disorders (EDs) have long been considered conditions
exclusively affecting women, and studies in the ED field regularly exclude men. Research …

Gene-by-sex interactions in mitochondrial functions and cardio-metabolic traits

F Norheim, Y Hasin-Brumshtein, L Vergnes… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
We studied sex differences in over 50 cardio-metabolic traits in a panel of 100 diverse
inbred strains of mice. The results clearly showed that the effects of sex on both clinical …

Sexual differentiation of brain and other tissues: five questions for the next 50 years

AP Arnold - Hormones and behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of founding of the journal
Hormones and Behavior, the official journal of the Society for Behavioral …

Genetic correlations of psychiatric traits with body composition and glycemic traits are sex-and age-dependent

C Hübel, HA Gaspar, JRI Coleman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Body composition is often altered in psychiatric disorders. Using genome-wide common
genetic variation data, we calculate sex-specific genetic correlations amongst body fat%, fat …

[PDF][PDF] Factores asociados al desarrollo de estrés, ansiedad y depresión en trabajadores sanitarios en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19 en Perú

M Osorio-Martínez, M Malca-Casavilca… - … de Prevención de …, 2022 - SciELO Espana
Objetivo: Describir las características sociodemográficas y determinar los factores
asociados a manifestaciones psicológicas de depresión, ansiedad y estrés en trabajadores …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in breathing

LH Gargaglioni, DA Marques, LGA Patrone - … Biochemistry and Physiology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Breathing is a vital behavior that ensures both the adequate supply of oxygen and the
elimination of CO 2, and it is influenced by many factors. Despite that most of the studies in …

Early-life stress modulates gut microbiota and peripheral and central inflammation in a sex-dependent manner

HJ Park, SA Kim, WS Kang, JW Kim - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent studies have reported that changes in gut microbiota composition could induce
neuropsychiatric problems. In this study, we investigated alterations in gut microbiota …