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 ...

It is one of those controversies that make you wonder how far feminism has really come. Harvard President Lawrence Summers recently suggested that the difference in men's and women's brains could be ...

WE’VE heard it all. Male brains are bigger and better at spatial awareness. Female brains are geared to multitasking and emotional intelligence. Stereotypes of how sex influences behaviour abound, and ...

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science ...

Female cells have two X chromosomes and male cells have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. So that the body can develop normally, it switches off one of the two X chromosomes in females in a very ...

Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, menopause and Alzheimer’s. By Gina Kolata Women’s brains are superior to men’s in ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken late in life and turn on genes that keep the brain healthy. UCSF researchers may have discovered how the ...