Gender

Men are from Mars....

The amygdala and the hippocampus -- structures in the brain that are involved in emotion, learning, and memory -- have been found to play...

Poor Impulse Control Mapped in Young Women

Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions...

Women in Recovery More Prone to Cocaine Relapse?

Women's hormonal cycles may not only make them more prone to drug addiction but also more affected by triggers that lead to relapse, a...

Transgender and Addiction Has Been Ignored Too Long

The needs of trans gendered populations are rarely explored in the wider research base on addictions. Findings have produced a great...

Autism Study Show Male Trait Bias

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

Cannabis Effects Women Differently to Men

Cannabis use is moving rapidly towards decriminalization around the world. However, it is a complex cocktail of of psychoactive...

Mechanism for Gender Differences in Mental Health Identified?

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

Women: Born Survivors

In lectures on human development it always causes a stir when I point out that men are not only genetically weaker than women but are...

Phil Harris