Material below is adapted from the SfN Short Course Genetic and Neural Circuit Approaches to Studying Sex Differences, by Jessica Tollkuhn. Short Courses are daylong scientific trainings on emerging neuroscience topics and research techniques held the day before SfN’s annual meeting.
Differences between the male and female brain largely arise due to the influence of sex chromosomes and gonadal hormones and can influence behaviors such as mating, aggression, and parenting. By understanding the contributions these factors make to differences in neural circuitry and corresponding behavior, researchers can begin to identify the causes for distinctions between the sexes they’ve seen in their own results.
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