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Sex Differences in the Brain: The Not So Inconvenient Truth

Year: 2012

Type: review

Abstract: ### Introduction In 2001 the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S.A., concluded that many aspects of both normal and pathological brain functioning exhibit important yet poorly understood sex differences ([Wizemann and Pardu, 2001][1]). Ten years later, the

Source: Journal of Neuroscience

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5372-11.2012

Authors: Margaret M. McCarthy, Arthur P. Arnold, Gregory F. Ball, Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Geert. J. De Vries

Institutions: University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of California, Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Language: English

Topic: Sex and Gender in Healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke