Sex differences in oxytocin and vasopressin: implications for autism spectrum disorders?

CS Carter - Behavioural brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are male-biased and characterized by deficits in social
behavior and social communication, excessive anxiety or hyperreactivity to stressful …

Sex difference in the near-24-hour intrinsic period of the human circadian timing system

JF Duffy, SW Cain, AM Chang… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The circadian rhythms of melatonin and body temperature are set to an earlier hour in
women than in men, even when the women and men maintain nearly identical and …

Functional connectivity mapping of the human precuneus by resting state fMRI

S Zhang, RL Chiang-shan - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Precuneus responds to a wide range of cognitive processes. Here, we examined how the
patterns of resting state connectivity may define functional subregions in the precuneus …

A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity

A Garcia-Falgueras, DF Swaab - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Transsexuality is an individual's unshakable conviction of belonging to the opposite sex,
resulting in a request for sex-reassignment surgery. We have shown previously that the bed …

Sexual differentiation of central vasopressin and vasotocin systems in vertebrates: different mechanisms, similar endpoints

GJ De Vries, GC Panzica - Neuroscience, 2006 - Elsevier
Vasopressin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala and vasotocin
neurons in homologous areas in non-mammalian vertebrates show some of the most …

A life history approach to the female sexual orientation spectrum: Evolution, development, causal mechanisms, and health

S Luoto, I Krams, MJ Rantala - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2019 - Springer
Women's capacity for sexual fluidity is at least as interesting a phenomenon from the point of
view of evolutionary biology and behavioral endocrinology as exclusively homosexual …

Depressive symptoms, sex, and risk for Alzheimer's disease

G Dal Forno, MT Palermo, JE Donohue… - Annals of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Depression associates with increased risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD),
although it is unclear whether it represents an actual risk factor or a prodrome. To determine …

Chronobiology differs between men and women with cluster headache, clinical phenotype does not

N Lund, M Barloese, A Petersen, B Haddock… - Neurology, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To describe differences between the sexes in the phenotype of cluster headache
(CH) in a large, well-characterized clinical CH population. Methods: Patients from the …

Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation

I Savic, A Garcia-Falgueras, DF Swaab - Progress in brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
It is believed that during the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction
through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female …

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DF Swaab, A Garcia-Falgueras - Functional neurology, 2009 - pure.knaw.nl
During the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction through a direct
action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the …