Sex Differences in the Brain: The Not So Inconvenient Truth

By Mark I. McCarthy, A. Arnold, Gregory F Ball, J. Blaustein, G. J. de Vries. Journal of Neuroscience, 2012

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### 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

Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Sex differences in anxiety and depression clinical perspectives (2014, background): “, 2013), organizational effects of gonadal steroid exposure during development, and activational effects of reproductive hormone exposure throughout the lifespan (Arnold, 2009; McCarthy et al., 2012).”
• Sex Differences in Animal Models: Focus on Addiction (2016, background): “A number of authors have described various ways that males and females can be different (e.g., McCarthy et al., 2012).”
• Transgenerational epigenetic programming via sperm microRNA recapitulates effects of paternal stress (2015, background): “However, the interaction of zygote miR injection with sex on adrenal Mc2r expression suggests that miR reprogramming of the HPA axis may involve a convergent sex difference, whereas the endpoint effect on the HPA is ultimately the same (35).”