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His and Hers: Sex Differences in the Brain

The neurobiological sex differences in the male and female brain remain largely a mystery. Our author—an acclaimed neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University—tells us what we know and why we don’t know more.
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Addressing Gender Bias in Medicine for National Women’s Health Week

Women's Health Week is an opportunity to address the troubling fact that many women, particularly women of color, often report feeling dismissed or undermined by medical professionals regarding a variety of physical or mental issues.

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Incorporating Sex Influences into Today’s Brain Research

The need to incorporate sex influences in brain research is becoming more widely accepted, but how the research community should address sex as a biological variable remains hotly debated.
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Sorting Out the Links Between Menopause and Memory Decline

New study suggests that memory changes in women in mid-life might be influenced by dropping hormonal levels.
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Reaction to “Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain”

A recent Cerebrum article by Larry Cahill about sex differences in the human brain has prompted a group of women academicians to respond and for the author to reply to their response. We encourage you to evaluate both points of view, as well as the original article, and form your own opinion.

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NIH Calls for ‘Sea Change’ Regarding Sex Differences in Research

New policy for US National Institutes of Health funding will require that researchers propose studies that have balance of male and female cells, tissues, or animals.
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Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain

While advances in brain imaging confirm that men and women think in their own way and that their brains are different, the biomedical community mainly uses male animals as testing subjects with the assumption that sex differences in the brain hardly matter. This month’s Cerebrum highlights some of the thinking and research that invalidates that assumption.
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The End of Sex as We Know It

Sex differences always harbor the potential to create misunderstanding, even conflict. Although we have far to go to understand the detailed neurobiology associated with our own human behaviors, we already have more than enough new information and insight to begin reevaluating our stereotypes of the sexes, sex differences, and the ever-elusive notion of equality of the sexes.
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A Scientist Dissents on Sex and Cognition

Do the hormones that determine our sex in the womb, then transform our bodies in puberty, leave our brains utterly untouched? Not so, says psychologist Doreen Kimura.

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