Study shows highly reproducible sex differences in aspects of human brain anatomy

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 12:40 in Biology & Nature

A scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible sex differences in the volume of certain regions in the human brain. This pattern of sex-based differences in brain volume corresponds with patterns of sex-chromosome gene expression observed in postmortem samples from the brain’s cortex, suggesting that sex chromosomes may play […]

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