An article published in the Harvard Gazette discusses the research of Jill Goldstein, PhD MPH, Founder and Executive Director of the Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine (ICON-X) at Massachusetts General Hospital. At the core of her research rests an import question:
Are men and women’s brains different?
“The short answer is yes, and this difference begins during fetal development around the start of the second trimester. Sex chromosomes — whether a fetus has XY (for males), XX (for females), or some variation of these — and gonadal hormones drive the regulation of sex differences in development of the body and brain. The so-called organizational effects of hormones on the brain can be retained across the lifespan, although there are many variations on, for lack of a better term, the sexual dimorphisms of the brain. That is, no one who studies the biology of sex on the brain believes there can be only two forms, even though we use the word sexual dimorphisms to indicate specific differences.”
Read more HERE
Does your brain reflect your sex? (The Harvard Gazette)
