News tagged with male neurons

Testosterone directly amplifies but does not program male behaviors

New research uncovers some surprising information about how sex hormones control masculinization of the brain during development and drive gender related behaviors in adult males. The study, published by Cell Press in the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal first autism candidate gene that demonstrates sensitivity to sex hormones

George Washington University researcher, Dr. Valerie Hu, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, have found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neurons show sex-dependent changes during starvation

When it comes to keeping brains alive, it seems nature has deemed that females are more valuable then males. As reported in this weeks' JBC, researchers found that nutrient deprivation of neurons produced sex-de ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2