[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

Factors associated with gender and sex differences in anxiety prevalence and comorbidity: A systematic review

NZ Farhane-Medina, B Luque, C Tabernero… - Science …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The prevalence and comorbidity of anxiety disorders are significantly different
between women and men, with research showing a greater impact on women. The aim of …

Replicable brain–phenotype associations require large-scale neuroimaging data

S Liu, A Abdellaoui, KJH Verweij… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural basis of interindividual
differences but the replicability of brain–phenotype associations remains largely unknown …

Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans

S Liu, J Seidlitz, JD Blumenthal… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Humans display reproducible sex differences in cognition and behavior, which may partly
reflect intrinsic sex differences in regional brain organization. However, the consistency …

Why and how to account for sex and gender in brain and behavioral research

L Eliot, AK Beery, EG Jacobs, HF LeBlanc… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Long overlooked in neuroscience research, sex and gender are increasingly included as
key variables potentially impacting all levels of neurobehavioral analysis. Still, many …

A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood

AM Alex, F Aguate, K Botteron, C Buss, YS Chong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The human brain grows quickly during infancy and early childhood, but factors influencing
brain maturation in this period remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we …

Shedding light on biological sex differences and microbiota–gut–brain axis: a comprehensive review of its roles in neuropsychiatric disorders

P Shobeiri, A Kalantari, AL Teixeira, N Rezaei - Biology of sex differences, 2022 - Springer
Women and men are suggested to have differences in vulnerability to neuropsychiatric
disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro-and microstructural MRI findings

LB Norbom, L Ferschmann, N Parker, I Agartz… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Through dynamic transactional processes between genetic and environmental factors,
childhood and adolescence involve reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex …

Intrinsic excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic men versus women

S Trakoshis, P Martínez-Cañada, F Rocchi, C Canella… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Excitation-inhibition (E: I) imbalance is theorized as an important pathophysiological
mechanism in autism. Autism affects males more frequently than females and sex-related …

The scientific body of knowledge–Whose body does it serve? A spotlight on oral contraceptives and women's health factors in neuroimaging

CM Taylor, L Pritschet, EG Jacobs - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2021 - Elsevier
Women constitute half of the world's population, yet neuroscience research does not serve
the sexes equally. Fifty years of preclinical animal evidence documents the tightly-coupled …