The brain presents various structural and functional sex differences, for which multiple factors are attributed: genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, and hormonal. While biological sex is determined by bot...

The maternal X chromosome in female mice impairs cognition through the silencing of certain genes and accelerates ageing of the hippocampus.

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Every cell in the body has a biological sex. The expansion of aging research to investigate female- and male-specific biology heralds a major advance …

INTRODUCTION Social activity is associated with better cognitive health in old age. To better translate epidemiological research for public health communication, we estimated relations of levels of ...

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This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...

INTRODUCTION While the role of apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 in Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility has been studied extensively, much less is known about the differences in disease presentation in...

Daily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.

#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.

After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

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Here, the authors identify a cognitive reserve-related activity pattern underlying successful memory encoding. They further derive individual reserve scores that predict the maintenance of cognitive p...

New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.