After debunking many myths around male and female brains, Gina Rippon’s research interests now include gender gaps in science and why they persist, even in allegedly gender-equal societies. Gina ...

Are male brains really that different from female brains? Does it matter? Why should anybody care? More than 100 years ago, a German neurologist named Paul Julius Möbius published a book titled Über ...

Important brain structures that are key for signaling in the brain are narrower and less dense in females, and more likely to be damaged by brain injuries, such as concussion. Long-term cognitive ...

When male and female fruit flies age, their brains become desexualized. Age-related changes take place in both sexes, but the male brain becomes feminized to a larger extent than the female brain ...

DALLAS - A few years ago, at the urging of his wife, Greg Johnson scheduled the first checkup of his adult life. "I didn't even have a doctor," says the 49-year-old Corinth, Texas, businessman, who ...

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 ...

DURHAM, NC -- More than half of all women in the United States are overweight or obese when they become pregnant. While being or becoming overweight during pregnancy can have potential health risks ...

New findings in mice show that excessive weight gain while pregnant tips the scales for male but not female mice to be more depressed in adulthood due to less brain serotonin. A similar result was ...

DALLAS — A few years ago, at the urging of his wife, Greg Johnson scheduled the first checkup of his adult life. “I didn’t even have a doctor,” says the 49-year-old Corinth, Texas, businessman, who ...

Antidepressants have strong impact on male brains — with the nature of the impact depending on the age of the subject — but do not affect female brains, a new study of rats has shown, suggesting that ...