At a population level, women and men differ in a wide variety of behavioral traits and in the
probabilities of developing certain mental disorders. Some of these sex differences may be�…

Women and men differ in a wide variety of behavioral traits and in their vulnerability to
developing certain mental disorders. This review endeavors to explore how recent�…

In the past decennia, our understanding of the sexual differentiation of the mammalian brain
has dramatically changed. The simple model according to which testosterone masculinizes�…

The underlying assumption in popular and scientific publications on sex differences in the
brain is that human brains can take one of two forms “male” or “female,” and that the�…

The prevalence, age of onset, and symptomatology of many neuropsychiatric conditions
differ between males and females. To understand the causes and consequences of sex�…

This volume of Progress in Brain Research documents recent developments and research
findings in relation to sex and how the brain's function and behavior differs from men to�…

Humans show reproducible sex-differences in cognition and psychopathology that may be
contributed to by influences of gonadal sex-steroids and/or sex-chromosomes on regional�…

Female and male humans are different. As simple and obvious as that statement is, in
biomedical research there has been an historical tendency to either not consider sex at all or�…

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem�…

Although considerable progress has been made in our understanding of brain function,
many questions remain unanswered. The ultimate goal of studying the brain is to�…