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Tuesday 6 December 2016

An Issue Whose Time Has Come: Sex/Gender Influences on Nervous System Function

An Issue Whose Time Has Come: Sex/Gender Influences on Nervous System Function
Journal of Neuroscience Research, vol 95 1-2, Jan/Feb 2017

"Be careful, it's the third rail.” I received this strong advice to steer clear of studying sex differences from a senior colleague around the year 2000 when my research into brain mechanisms of emotional memory began drawing me into the issue of sex differences—or better yet, sex influences—on brain function. And in a way, he was right. For the vast majority of his long and distinguished neuroscience career, exploring sex influences was indeed a terrific way for a brain scientist not studying reproductive functions to lose credibility at best, and at worst, become a pariah in the eyes of the neuroscience mainstream......

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  1. AnonymousSunday, January 08, 2017 11:57:00 am

    Are you familiar with Dr. Dirt's claims about the differences between lesbian and heterosexual brains?

    She insists that there are no intermediates, and that bisexuals and radfems are mostly heterosexuals.

    She doesn't offer much evidence, aside from the fact that many end up with men [which could simply be because there are more heterosexual bi and pan men than lesbian bi and pan women], or obsess over trans women, who she thinks must be men.

    She obviously doesn't consider trans men hurt by her crusade to rescue women.

    Mary

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