Sexual orientation, controversy, and science

JM Bailey, PL Vasey, LM Diamond… - … science in the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen …

[HTML][HTML] Preventing Parkinson's disease: an environmental agenda

BR De Miranda, SM Goldman… - Journal of …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Fueled by aging populations and continued environmental contamination, the global burden
of Parkinson's disease (PD) is increasing. The disease, or more appropriately diseases …

Sex-specific neurotoxic effects of heavy metal pollutants: Epidemiological, experimental evidence and candidate mechanisms

M Gade, N Comfort, DB Re - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
The heavy metals lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), and cadmium (Cd) are ubiquitous environmental
pollutants and are known to exert severe adverse impacts on the nervous system even at …

Personality and gender differences in global perspective

DP Schmitt, AE Long, A McPhearson… - International Journal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Men's and women's personalities appear to differ in several respects. Social role theories of
development assume gender differences result primarily from perceived gender roles …

Biological sex differences in depression: a systematic review

A Labaka, O Goñi-Balentziaga… - … research for nursing, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and its prevalence is 2 times higher
in women than in men. There is, however, a lack of data on sex-specific pathophysiology of …

[图书][B] Sex/gender: Biology in a social world

A Fausto-Sterling - 2012 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be
produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This …

Gender identity development in adolescence

TD Steensma, BPC Kreukels, ALC de Vries… - Hormones and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue" Puberty and Adolescence". This article aims to provide
an outline of what is currently known on trajectories, and contributing factors to gender …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in Parkinson's disease

GE Gillies, IS Pienaar, S Vohra, Z Qamhawi - Frontiers in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) displays a greater prevalence and earlier age at onset in men.
This review addresses the concept that sex differences in PD are determined, largely, by …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain

D Joel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper reviews the relations between sex and brain in light of the binary
conceptualization of these relations and the challenges posed to it by the …

A review on sex differences in processing emotional signals

ME Kret, B De Gelder - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …