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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 17, 2017·4 min read

Mounting Challenges to Brain Sex Differences

A new meta analysis reveals no significant differences in the size of the amygdala between males and females.

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Featured Psychology

·November 11, 2016·5 min read

Traumatic Stress Changes Brains of Boys and Girls Differently

A new study reports an area of the brain associated with emotion appears to undergo accelerated maturation in teenage girls with PTSD, but not in their male peers with the condition.

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Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·June 8, 2016·6 min read

Differences in Male and Female Brain Activity When it Comes to Cooperation

A new study may provide clues as to how cooperative behavior could have evolved differently between men and women.

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Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 23, 2016·3 min read

Alzheimer’s More Severe in Women Than in Men

A new study reveals women with Alzheimer's disease have poorer cognitive abilities than men at the same stage of the disease.

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Featured Genetics Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 17, 2016·4 min read

Increased Alzheimer’s Risk in Women Due to Proteins?

Researchers reveal gender specific differences between male and female dementia patients.

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Featured Neurology

·March 17, 2016·4 min read

Women Retain Verbal Memory Skills Longer Than Men in Early Stages of Alzheimer’s

A new study reports women may retain better verbal memory during the early stages of Alzheimer's than men, despite evidence of similar levels of hippocampal shrinkage.

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Featured Neuroscience

·February 9, 2016·4 min read

Are Male and Female Brains Really Different?

A new article questions whether the male and female brain are really that different.

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Autism Featured Psychology

·January 10, 2016·2 min read

Why It’s Easier For Girls With Autism to Develop Friendships

A new study reports girls with autism tend to be more socially motivated and have more intimate friendships than autistic boys.

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Featured Psychology

·January 4, 2016·3 min read

Self Esteem Gender Gap More Pronounced in Western Countries

According to a new study, the self esteem gender gap is more pronounced in Western industrial countries.

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Featured Neuroscience

·December 7, 2015·5 min read

Which Way Now? Men Have Better Sense of Direction Than Women

A drop of testosterone under the tongue allowed women to better orient themselves in navigational tests, a new study reports.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 7, 2015·5 min read

Young Male Chimps Play With Objects More But Aren’t So Adept at Tool Use

A new study reports young male chimps spend time manipulating objects, but are not as adept at tool use as older females are.

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Autism Featured Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 7, 2015·5 min read

Both Autistic Men and Women Show an Extreme of Typical Male Pattern on ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test

According to researchers, a new study provides strong support for the extreme male brain theory of autism.

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