Structural and functional sex differences in the human hypothalamus.
Sex differences in the brain may be the basis not only for sex differences in reproduction, gender identity (the feeling of being male or female), and sexual orientation (heterosexuality vs homosexuality), but also for the sex difference in prevalence of psychiatric and neurological diseases ( Swaab and Hofman, 1995 ). In this brief article we discuss a few examples of structural and functional sex differences in the human brain.
Swaab
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Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ The Netherlands. w.verweij@nih.knaw.nl
Chung
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Kruijver
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Hofman
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Ishunina
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D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012725:Sexual Behavior