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 …

REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY: Endocrine disruption and reproductive disorders: impacts on sexually dimorphic neuroendocrine pathways

HB Patisaul - Reproduction, 2021 - rep.bioscientifica.com
We are all living with hundreds of anthropogenic chemicals in our bodies every day, a
situation that threatens the reproductive health of present and future generations. This …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular basis of Gender Dysphoria: androgen and estrogen receptor interaction

R Fernández, A Guillamon, J Cortés-Cortés… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Polymorphisms in sex steroid receptors have been associated with
transsexualism. However, published replication studies have yielded inconsistent findings …

Impacts of Gestational FireMaster 550 Exposure on the Neonatal Cortex Are Sex Specific and Largely Attributable to the Organophosphate Esters

SK Witchey, MG Doyle, JD Fredenburg… - …, 2023 - karger.com
Abstract Introduction: Flame retardants (FRs) are common bodily and environmental
pollutants, creating concern about their potential toxicity. We and others have found that the …

No evidence that hormonal contraceptive use or circulating sex steroids predict complex emotion recognition

TN Shirazi, KA Rosenfield, RA Cárdenas… - Hormones and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Relatively little is known about the effects of endogenous and exogenous steroid hormones
on ecologically relevant behavioral and cognitive phenotypes in women, such as emotion …

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and the neuroendocrine system: Beyond estrogen, androgen, and thyroid

HB Patisaul - Advances in Pharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
Hundreds of anthropogenic chemicals occupy our bodies, a situation that threatens the
health of present and future generations. This chapter focuses on endocrine disrupting …

Organizational effects of gonadal hormones on human sexual orientation

A Swift-Gallant, T Aung, K Rosenfield… - … Human Behavior and …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Sexual attraction to males or females is perhaps the largest behavioral sex
difference across animal species. Experiments in laboratory mammals show that prenatal …

Lost in translational biology: Understanding sex differences to inform studies of diseases of the nervous system

RV Pearse II, TL Young-Pearse - Brain research, 2019 - Elsevier
Female and male humans are different. As simple and obvious as that statement is, in
biomedical research there has been an historical tendency to either not consider sex at all or …

Sex-specific associations between urinary bisphenols concentrations during pregnancy and problematic child behaviors at age 2 years

SD Geiger, S Musaad, J Hill, A Aguiar… - Neurotoxicology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of prenatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure on child behavior are mixed with
some reports suggesting increased problematic behaviors in girls (eg, aggression and …

Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women's sexual attraction to men

TN Shirazi, H Self, K Dawood, LLM Welling… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ovarian estrogens may influence the development of the human brain and behavior, but
there are few opportunities to test this possibility. Isolated GnRH deficiency (IGD) is a rare …