Sex-specific pruning of neuronal synapses in Caenorhabditis elegans AUTHORS: Meital Oren-Suissa, Emily A. Bayer & Oliver Hobert “Nematode worms have sex specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to act differently.” An NIH-funded (NINDS) study at Columbia University explores how sexually dimorphic connections arise in the worm nervous system. The worms […]
brain, Brain Sex Differences, Evolution, Genetics, NeurololgyEvery Organ Has a Sex Such an interesting article in the Biology of Sex Differences Journal this month! The authors attempt to answer the question of what makes brains of men and women unique to each sex, and come to the conclusion that sex differences in the nervous system are inseparable from sex differences in […]
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Sex differences in the brain: a whole body perspective Authors: Geert J. de Vries* and Nancy G. Forger Abstract Most writing on sexual differentiation of the mammalian brain (including our own) considers just two organs: the gonads and the brain. This perspective, which leaves out all other body parts, misleads us in several ways. First, […]
Adipose tissue, Bladder, brain, environment, Gender Difference, Gut, Immune system, Kidney, liver, Muscle, Neurology, Placenta, Sensory system, Sex differenceSURVEY FINDS THAT MOST WOMEN DON’T KNOW FEMALE-SPECIFIC SIGNS, SYMPTOMS OF STROKE A national survey of 1000 women, done at Ohio State University, showed that only 11% could correctly identify female-specific early warning signs of stroke. These include: pregnancy, oral contraception, lupus, migraine headache, dizziness, and hiccups associated with atypical chest pain. Women also were […]
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