Are male brains really that different from female brains? Does it matter? Why should anybody care? More than 100 years ago, a German neurologist named Paul Julius Möbius published a book titled Über ...

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 ...

You're holding two wrinkly human brains, each dripping in formaldehyde. Look at one and then the other. Can you tell which ...

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 ...

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science ...

More than seven million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer's ...

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 ...

It is one of those controversies that make you wonder how far feminism has really come. Harvard President Lawrence Summers recently suggested that the difference in men's and women's brains could be ...

Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory, responses to stress ...

Brain scans, postmortem dissections, artificial intelligence and lab mice reveal differences in the brain that are linked to sex. Do we know what they mean? When you purchase through links on our site ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken late in life and turn on genes that keep the brain healthy. UCSF researchers may have discovered how the ...