Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant

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Ryali et al. do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization, and underscore...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

The sex of human experimenters influences mouse behaviors and neural responses.

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As I was scanning a recent nature neuroscience table of contents, the title of this item elicited an immediate “What the f…..?” reaction, s...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Testerone production in adult men is regulated by an adolescent period sensitive to family experiences.

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 From Gettler et al. : Significance Testosterone influences how animals devote energy and time toward reproduction, including opposing de...
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Friday, March 11, 2022

The manly art of self-promotion

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Exley and Kessler suggest that gender wage gaps may have roots in men being more self-promoting than women: We run a series of experiments...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Castration delays aging

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I pass on this nugget by Beverly Purnell in the Editor's Choice section of this week's Science Magazine noting an interesting paper...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Ancient Greece's Army of Lovers

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This post is under MindBlog's "random and curious stuff" category. A piece by Daniel Mendelsohn in The New Yorker: Comprisin...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Brain mechanism by which testosterone reduces generosity

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 Interesting work from Jianxin Ou et al.: Significance Testosterone is associated with aggressive behavior in both animals and humans. H...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Sexiest birds on the planet - Manakins have the best moves

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Elizabeth Pennisi describes reports from a recent virtual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology on the genetic und...
Friday, January 15, 2021

How oxytocin enhances male sexual activity

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An article by Oti et al. in Current Biology makes me want to buy an oxytocin inhaler (just google oxytocin nasal spray). I'll pass on ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Conserved aspects of sex-biased brain development in humans and mice

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It is a pity that in our current political environment any scientist adding to the abundant evidence of brain differences between the sexes ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men

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It is interesting that debate over whether genuinely bisexual men actually exist has continued for so long. In the current issue of PNAS Ja...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Progress toward gender equality in the United States has slowed or stalled

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From England et al. : Significance Social scientists have documented dramatic change in gender inequality in the last half century, so...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Gender differences in the brain connections that predict intelligence.

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From Jiang et al : Scores on intelligence tests are strongly predictive of various important life outcomes. However, the gender discrepancy...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Increased emotional reactivity in men with high hair testosterone concentrations.

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As I was scanning the table of contents of the latest issue of the journal "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience" the artic...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Same-Sex behavior in animals - a new view.

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Monk et al. offer a fresh perspective on the "problem" of how same-sex sexual behavior could have evolved. It is a problem only i...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Gender and race stereotypes - what's in a name...

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Eaton et al. give us more data on the application of gender and race stereotypes in academia: The current study examines how intersecting ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Gender neutral pronouns reduce bias in favor of traditional gender roles

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An interesting study by Tavits and Pérez on Sweden's 2015 incorporation into the Swedish Academy Glossary (which sets norms for Sweden&...
Friday, September 06, 2019

How personal and professional conduct relate to one another.

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From Griffin et al. : Significance The relative importance of personal traits compared with context for predicting behavior is a long-s...
Monday, July 08, 2019

Subgroups of gay men correspond to different biodevelopmental pathways

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Swift-Gallant et al. consider three established biomarkers of sexual orientation and suggest they reflect distinct biodevelopmental pathway...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Inequality brokered

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Public opinion about sexual minorities has improved dramatically in recent years, but Sun and Gao do an analysis showing that discriminator...