In animals with social structures, the drive to reproduce is a complex process; governed by the brain, it's influenced by ...

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

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

While the effects weren’t severe, they were significant enough to raise concerns. Ania Majewska, the senior author of the ...

The study examines the long-term effects of fluoxetine in rat brains when administered at a young age, lead to a series of ...

Though initially uncertain, his mother was ultimately convinced by scientific papers that suggested that her son could have a female brain trapped in a male body, and that this mismatch caused him ...

You're holding two wrinkly human brains, each dripping in formaldehyde. Look at one and then the other. Can you tell which brain is female and which is male? You can't. Humanity has been hunting for ...

Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, menopause and Alzheimer’s.

While male brains tended to be greater in volume than female brains, when adjusted for total brain volume, female infants on average had significantly more grey matter, while male infants on ...