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·October 17, 2017·6 min read

Signaling Pathway May Be Key To Why Autism Is More Common In Boys

A mouse study reveals the male brain may be more vulnerable to a genetic cause of autism.

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·October 16, 2017·3 min read

Stress May Be Just As Unhealthy As Junk Food To Digestive System

Stress causes gut microbiota composition to shift as though a female mouse is on a high fat diet, researchers report.

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·October 10, 2017·4 min read

Stress Has Dramatically Different Effects on Male and Female Brains: Mouse Study

Researchers from Rockefeller University have identified what they claim to be 'remarkable' differences between the way the male and female brains respond to stress.

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·October 9, 2017·3 min read

Female Brain Reacts More Strongly to Prosocial Behavior Than Male Brain

University of Zurich researchers report prosocial behaviors trigger stronger reward system activation in women, where as the same neural response is elicited by selfish behavior in men.

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·October 5, 2017·5 min read

Mouse Cell Type Census Reveals Gender Specific Brain Differences

A multiyear study reveals, contrary to expectations, numbers and ratios of three major inhibitory cell types vary stereo-typically across different cortical parts. Additionally, researchers identified 11 subcortical areas with gender specific differences in mice.

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·October 4, 2017·2 min read

High Blood Pressure in 40s Linked to Increased Dementia Risk For Women

Women who had high blood pressure in their 40s are 73% more likely to develop dementia as they age than those with normal blood pressure, a new study in Neurology reports.

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·October 1, 2017·4 min read

Concussions May Affect Women Differently Than Men

Rutgers researchers are conducting two new studies that will investigate how concussion affects female athletes.

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·September 28, 2017·5 min read

For Boys At Risk of Psychopathy, Laughter Isn’t So Contagious

According to a new study, boys who show behaviors consistent with psychopathic traits report they did not want to join in with laughter as much as their peers. Additionally, neuroimaging revealed reduced response to the sound of laughter in areas of the brain associated with emotional perception.

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·September 25, 2017·6 min read

Study Reveals Gender Specific Autism Risk in Siblings

A new study confirms previous findings that males have a higher risk of ASD than females. However, researchers discovered, regardless of gender, siblings born after a female child with autism had an increased risk of ASD than those born after a male on the spectrum.

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·September 21, 2017·3 min read

One in Four Girls is Depressed at Age 14

UCL researchers report 24 percent of girls aged 14 report feeling symptoms of depression. Only 9 percent of young teenage males reported feeling depressed.

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·September 18, 2017·5 min read

Sex and Aggression Controlled Separately in Female Animal Brains, But Overlap in Male Brains

According to a new study, while brain regions that control sexual and aggressive behaviors in male and female mice are the same, the way they are wired is different.

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·August 7, 2017·4 min read

Women Have More Active Brains Than Men

A large scale SPECT imaging study reveals women's brains are significantly more active in more regions than males, including the prefronal cortex and limbic areas. Visual and areas associated with coordination were more active in males, researchers noted.