Sexual differences of human brain
During the last decades there has been an increasing interest in studying the differences between males and females. These differences extend from behavioral to cognitive to micro- and macro- neuro-anatomical aspects of human biology. There have been many methods to evaluate these differences and ex...
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doaj-38440b9dd4e84322a12a0f680324f8fb2020-11-25T00:43:21ZengMashhad University of Medical SciencesReviews in Clinical Medicine2345-62562345-68922014-04-011251562325Sexual differences of human brainMasoud Pezeshki Rad0Mahdi Momennezhad1Shahrokh Naseri2Mahsa Nahidi3Abolfazl Mahmoudzadeh4Behzad Aminzadeh5Department of Radiology, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDepartment of Medical Physics, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDepartment of Medical Physics, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDepartment of Psychiatry, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDepartment of Radiology, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDepartment of Radiology, School of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranDuring the last decades there has been an increasing interest in studying the differences between males and females. These differences extend from behavioral to cognitive to micro- and macro- neuro-anatomical aspects of human biology. There have been many methods to evaluate these differences and explain their determinants. The most studied cause of this dimorphism is the prenatal sex hormones and their organizational effect on brain and behavior. However, there have been new and recent attentions to hormone's activational influences in puberty and also the effects of genomic imprinting. In this paper, we reviewed the sex differences of brain, the evidences for possible determinants of these differences and also the methods that have been used to discover them. We reviewed the most conspicuous findings with specific attention to macro-anatomical differences based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. We finally reviewed the findings and the many opportunities for future studies.http://rcm.mums.ac.ir/pdf_2325_ae0a2d020781ab232673767d92e4ad92.htmlBrainmagnetic resonance imagingSexual differences |
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Sexual differences of human brain |
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During the last decades there has been an increasing interest in studying the differences between males and females. These differences extend from behavioral to cognitive to micro- and macro- neuro-anatomical aspects of human biology. There have been many methods to evaluate these differences and explain their determinants. The most studied cause of this dimorphism is the prenatal sex hormones and their organizational effect on brain and behavior. However, there have been new and recent attentions to hormone's activational influences in puberty and also the effects of genomic imprinting. In this paper, we reviewed the sex differences of brain, the evidences for possible determinants of these differences and also the methods that have been used to discover them. We reviewed the most conspicuous findings with specific attention to macro-anatomical differences based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. We finally reviewed the findings and the many opportunities for future studies. |
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