Sex Influences on the Brain: An Issue Whose Time Has Come

Larry Cahill; Dana Aswad

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.021

Sex Influences on the Brain: An Issue Whose Time Has Come

Neuron. 2015 Dec 16;88(6):1084-1085. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.021.

Authors

Larry Cahill¹, Dana Aswad²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA. Electronic address: lfcahill@uci.edu.
² Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA.

PMID: 26687218
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.021

Abstract

The issue of sex influences on the brain is rapidly moving center stage, driven by abundant results proving that subject sex can and regularly does alter, negate, and even reverse neuroscientific findings and conclusions down to the molecular level and thus can no longer be justifiably marginalized or ignored.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / metabolism*
Female
Humans
Male
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / physiology
Sex Characteristics*