[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 …

Why are autism spectrum conditions more prevalent in males?

S Baron-Cohen, MV Lombardo, B Auyeung… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer
clues to the etiology of this condition. Although the cause of this bias remains a mystery, we …

Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

DP Hibar, LT Westlye, NT Doan, N Jahanshad… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD) is still not well
understood. Structural brain differences have been associated with BD, but results from …

Mapping cortical brain asymmetry in 17,141 healthy individuals worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium

XZ Kong, SR Mathias, T Guadalupe… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hemispheric asymmetry is a cardinal feature of human brain organization. Altered brain
asymmetry has also been linked to some cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, the …

Anatomically motivated modeling of cortical laminae

MD Waehnert, J Dinse, M Weiss, MN Streicher… - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Improvements in the spatial resolution of structural and functional MRI are beginning to
enable analysis of intracortical structures such as heavily myelinated layers in 3D, a …

Sex differences in cortical thickness mapped in 176 healthy individuals between 7 and 87 years of age

ER Sowell, BS Peterson, E Kan, RP Woods… - Cerebral …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Findings from previous magnetic resonance imaging studies of sex differences in gray
matter have been inconsistent, with some showing proportionally increased gray matter in …

A review of the status of brain structure research in transsexualism

A Guillamon, C Junque, E Gómez-Gil - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2016 - Springer
The present review focuses on the brain structure of male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-
male (FtM) homosexual transsexuals before and after cross-sex hormone treatment as …

Brain size and cortical structure in the adult human brain

K Im, JM Lee, O Lyttelton, SH Kim, AC Evans… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the scale relationship between size and cortical structure of human brains
in a large sample of magnetic resonance imaging data. Cortical structure was estimated with …

Subtle in‐scanner motion biases automated measurement of brain anatomy from in vivo MRI

A Alexander‐Bloch, L Clasen, M Stockman… - Human brain …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
While the potential for small amounts of motion in functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) scans to bias the results of functional neuroimaging studies is well appreciated, the …

Sex effects on brain structure in de novo Parkinson's disease: a multimodal neuroimaging study

C Tremblay, N Abbasi, Y Zeighami, Y Yau, M Dadar… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease varies in severity and age of onset. One source of this variability is sex.
Males are twice as likely as females to develop Parkinson's disease, and tend to have more …