Understanding the Types of Sex Differences in Neuroscience Research
Material below is adapted from the SfN Short Course session Sex-Dependent Mechanisms of Synaptic Modulation, by Catherine S. Woolley. Short Courses are daylong scientific trainings on emerging neuroscience topics and research techniques held the day before the start of SfN’s annual meeting.
The push to consider the sex of animals used in neuroscience research is largely based on emerging evidence of differences between males and females. If researchers do not pay attention to possible sex differences, they risk missing underlying mechanisms of brain function, which could have implications for not only basic science but for translational research, too.
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