Despite popular belief, men are not better (or worse) than women at spatial cognition tasks. However, men and women approach mental rotational tasks in different ways.
Despite there being no differences in IQ or general intelligence between males and females, men often overestimate their IQ's, considering them to be higher than females. Researchers explore why this matters in an educational context and evaluate why females often underestimate their intellectual abilities.
According to researchers, tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women, involving genes associated with cancer and estrogen metabolism.
Study finds evidence of inflammation in the blood of patients during the early stages of Parkinson's disease. The findings support the theory that inflammation is a driver of the neurodegenerative disorder. The effect was most noticed in women with Parkinson's.
According to a new study, cocaine has the most potent effects on the female brain when estrogen levels are at their highest.
Researchers discover structural and functional differences in the insula between men and women.
Researchers also found preliminary evidence that ovarian hormones may modulate the differential response in women and may be related to different levels of estrogen.
A new study reveals a history of binge drinking leads to more instances of drinking under stress and when anxious in males, but not in females.
Researchers report our gender can determine longevity and response to treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer. The study reports male survival is determined by genes that control cell division, where as female survival is often determine by genes that regulate the ability of cancer cells to migrate to different brain areas.
Researchers have discovered a type of face men are better at identifying than women: the faces of Transformer toys.
Estrogen sets up physical differences in the brains of males and females during development, a new study reports.
As estrogen levels rise in women, the volume of the hippocampus increases, a new study reports.
