"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 ...

Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way In work published today in the journal Science Advances 1, a team reports that, at ...

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, ...

Females, on average, live nearly five years longer than males. They also tend to experience age-related cognitive decline at ...

Scientists have discovered that a specific area within the brain, known as the cortical amygdala, plays a pivotal role in ...

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

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 ...

Volunteers will undergo magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy scans of the brain at Kennedy Krieger Institute or Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore ...