"I'm not aware of any measure you can make of the human brain where the male and female distributions don't overlap," ...

Scientists said it is "incredibly difficult" to "distinguish how much of a sex difference is societally or environmentally ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) may have uncovered a key reason why women tend to outlive men and maintain better cognitive function as they age. Their research ...

“In typical aging, women have a brain that looks younger, with fewer cognitive deficits compared to men,” said Dr. Dena Dubal ...

Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, ...

A new study out of the University of California San Francisco indicates that women’s brains might be better suited for aging, ...

The overlooked influence of this genetic library could be a key reason why females live longer than males and exhibit slower ...

These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science Advances UCSF researchers may have discovered how the female brain remains resilient in aging, answering an age-old ...

Rhythmic changes, driven by hormonal fluctuations, offer a unique window into the intricate connection between the female ...

A not-so-silent X leads to a brain-restoring factor One of the 22 genes that had 'escaped' silencing on the X chromosome, PLP1, stood out to the researchers. PLP1 helps build the neural insulation ...