Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are ...

The reason female brains have less cognitive aging may be due to the reawakening of the dormant X chromosome late in life, which turns on genes that help sustain healthy brain cell connections. This ...

In a previous article, we talked about how men and women have distinct perspectives and often approach and interpret events differently. It's not that one is better than the other; they’re just ...

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Throughout the brain of a genetic female, there is a mosaic of neurons relying on either the mother’s X genes or the father’s X genes. The subtle differences in the two copies of the genes could lead ...

A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows. Compared with women having their first child and those who had never given birth, ...

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression—but only in females. According to a new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ...

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 ...

Neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley and her team at Northwestern University were studying synaptic modulation in female mice when they ran into some trouble. They were attempting to replicate ...