Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dementia's gender differences revealed
Dementia is one of the leading causes of death in Australia, but University of Queensland research has found the disease affects men and women differently.
Mar 4, 2019
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News tagged with biological differences
Medical research
The Lypla1 gene impacts obesity in a sex-specific manner
Susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance and other cardio-metabolic traits may also be dependent on a person's sex. An international research team of the University of California (UCLA), Helmholtz Zentrum München, a ...
Feb 18, 2019
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Cardiology
Black people more likely to die of sudden cardiac arrest, but why?
Physicians have known for years that black people in the United States are at higher risk than whites of dying from sudden cardiac arrest, but the reasons have been unclear.
Nov 13, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Sex-linked differences in cancer may identify gender-specific genetic drivers and predict responses to treatment
Analysis of male- and female-derived tumor samples revealed differences in prognostic biomarkers, genes that drive cancer, and in regulation of key pathways that may predict responses to treatment, according to results published ...
Oct 2, 2018
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Neuroscience
People with depression have stronger emotional responses to negative memories
People with major depressive disorder (MDD) feel more negative emotion when remembering painful experiences than people without the disorder, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. ...
Mar 6, 2018
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Neuroscience
How 'neurosexism' is holding back gender equality – and science itself
People looking for proof that men and women learn, speak, solve problems or read maps differently often think brain scanners are the ultimate answer. And it's easy to see why. Whether you want to advocate separate schools ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Neuroscience
Are male and female brains really different?
Along with just about every other aspect of real or imagined differences between the sexes, the idea that your biological sex will determine the sex of your brain – and so your behaviour, aptitudes and personality – has ...
Feb 9, 2016
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Medical research
NIH isn't ensuring that clinical trials account for different outcomes by sex
Twenty-two years after Congress ordered the National Institutes of Health to include women in the clinical trials it funds to test medical treatments, women make up more than half the participants in those trials.
Dec 8, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gender roles: Men and women are not so different after all
Gender is a large part of our identity that is often defined by our psychological differences as men and women. Not surprisingly, those differences are reflected in many gender stereotypes - men rarely share their feelings, ...
Jan 29, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The math of one-night stands and long-term relationships
Popular wisdom and established evolutionary science hold that the sexes seek fundamentally different relationships: men want short-term, no-strings-attached relationships whereas women value longer-term, loyal partnerships.
Jan 14, 2015
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