Male brains do seem to be built differently than female brains. An analysis of more than 100 studies found that the volume of a man’s brain is 8% to 13% greater than the volume of a woman’s ...

The Moments That Make Us Who We Are. Life provides turning points of many kinds, but the most powerful of all may be character-revealing moments.

Yes, male and female brains are different. How brains differ with biological sex is an active area of neuroscience research, but a more important question is why male and female brains differ at all.

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression—but only in females.

The very concept of a "male" and "female" brain has been found to be flawed. A recently reported study showed that every brain is actually a mosaic of different patterns, some more commonly found ...

Oxytocin is a hormone linked to bonding of all kinds—maternal, familial, romantic, social. In mice, the team found, the ...

There’s no such thing as a distinctly male or female brain, new research suggests. An analysis of more than 1,400 MRI scans suggests that biologically unmistakable sex differences don’t extend ...

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science recently discovered that female and male brains respond differently to chronic stress. This discovery could pave the way for personalized ...