Sex differences between males and females can be detected early in life. They are present
also later even to a much greater extent affecting our life in adulthood and a wide spectrum …

Within the basic and clinical biomedical research community, there is increasing recognition
that differences between males and females across the lifespan affect an individual's health …

Sex differences in the brain are reflected in behavior and in the risk for neuropsychiatric
disorders. The fetal brain develops in the male direction due to a direct effect of testosterone …

Why do men and women think differently? Why do they behave differently in stressed
situations? Why do women act more emotionally as compared to men? Why do men and …

The concept that the brain differs in make-up between males and females is not new. For
example, it is well established that anatomists in the nineteenth century found sex …

Sex determination occurs at the moment of conception, as a result of XX or XY chromosome
pairing. From that point, the body undergoes the process of sexual differentiation, inducing …

In 2001 the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA,
concluded that many aspects of both normal and pathological brain functioning exhibit …

A rapidly burgeoning literature documents copious sex influences on brain anatomy,
chemistry and function. This article highlights some of the more intriguing recent discoveries …

Studies of sex differences in the brain range from reductionistic cell and molecular analyses
in animal models to functional imaging in awake human subjects, with many other levels in …

Female and male brains differ. Differences begin early during development due to a
combination of genetic and hormonal events and continue throughout the lifespan of an …