In a previous article, we talked about how men and women have distinct perspectives and often approach and interpret events differently. It's not that one is better than the other; they’re just ...

Brain scientists have long debated when, and how strongly, sex starts to shape the human brain. A growing body of imaging work now points to a clear answer: measurable differences in brain size and ...

"Women are emotional, men are logical," "Women are good at language, men are good at spatial awareness"—we frequently hear ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behavior have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the ...

Newswise — Women are twice as likely as men to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — and new research may offer a biological clue as to why. A Virginia Tech study found that the female brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oxford researchers mapped the adult fruit fly brain, showing neurons retain a molecular record of development. (CREDIT: ...

More than 7 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer's Association. The O'Banion Lab at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the ...

Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory, responses to stress ...

Neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley and her team at Northwestern University were studying synaptic modulation in female mice when they ran into some trouble. They were attempting to replicate ...

Between books claiming that men and women come from different planets and presidential candidates trying to tell people what gender they have to be, you might think that the human brain reveals some ...

Scientists based at the University of Bern, Switzerland have undertaken what they are describing as the first scan for evidence of brains for different sexes (or genders, depending on whether a ...