Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms

DA Bangasser, A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are …

Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality

AR DeCasien, E Guma, S Liu, A Raznahan - Biology of Sex Differences, 2022 - Springer
The presence, magnitude, and significance of sex differences in the human brain are hotly
debated topics in the scientific community and popular media. This debate is largely fueled …

Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans

S Liu, J Seidlitz, JD Blumenthal… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Humans display reproducible sex differences in cognition and behavior, which may partly
reflect intrinsic sex differences in regional brain organization. However, the consistency …

Four Core Genotypes and XY* mouse models: Update on impact on SABV research

AP Arnold - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The impact of two mouse models is reviewed, the Four Core Genotypes and XY* models.
The models are useful for determining if the causes of sex differences in phenotypes are …

Molecular mechanisms and cellular events involved in the neuroprotective actions of estradiol. Analysis of sex differences

I Azcoitia, GE Barreto, LM Garcia-Segura - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Estradiol, either from peripheral or central origin, activates multiple molecular
neuroprotective and neuroreparative responses that, being mediated by estrogen receptors …

[HTML][HTML] X-chromosome regulation and sex differences in brain anatomy

A Raznahan, CM Disteche - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans show reproducible sex-differences in cognition and psychopathology that may be
contributed to by influences of gonadal sex-steroids and/or sex-chromosomes on regional …

Sexual differentiation of brain and other tissues: five questions for the next 50 years

AP Arnold - Hormones and behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of founding of the journal
Hormones and Behavior, the official journal of the Society for Behavioral …

Genetics, sex, and gender

C Reale, F Invernizzi, C Panteghini… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review aims to give an overview of what has been discovered so far and what still
needs to be analyzed about how sex and gender affect the disease development. These two …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-biased trajectories of amygdalo-hippocampal morphology change over human development

AM Fish, A Nadig, J Seidlitz, PK Reardon, C Mankiw… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
The amygdala and hippocampus are two adjacent allocortical structures implicated in sex-
biased and developmentally-emergent psychopathology. However, the spatiotemporal …

Rethinking sex determination of non-gonadal tissues

AP Arnold - Current topics in developmental biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Evolution of genetic mechanisms of sex determination led to two processes causing sex
differences in somatic phenotypes: gonadal differentiation and sex chromosome dosage …