You're holding two wrinkly human brains, each dripping in formaldehyde. Look at one and then the other. Can you tell which ...

More than 7 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are ...

A new comprehensive study published in the prestigious journal PNAS provides some fascinating insights into how female and male brains are intrinsically organized. Employing an innovative deep neural ...

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 led by those at the University of Rochester, US, found that immune cells in the brain, known as microglia, act ...

The damage to the ADNP protein affected completely different mechanisms in male and female brains. The explanation for this phenomenon is that in males, one of the functions of ADNP is to regulate a ...

New findings suggest sex-specific immune responses in Alzheimer’s, as female microglia show heightened interferon signaling ...

Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory, responses to stress ...

DALLAS — A few years ago, at the urging of his wife, Greg Johnson scheduled the first checkup of his adult life. “I didn’t even have a doctor,” says the 49-year-old Corinth, Texas, businessman, who ...

The 'silent' X chromosome within female brains may not be so silent after all. A new study has found evidence in both mice and humans that as we age, 'sleeping' X chromosomes can be 'awakened' in ...