Sex and the Brain In the summer of 1991, neurobiologist Simon Levay published a small study on a minute part of the human brain. Little did he realize it would catapult him from his scientific ivory tower into the heated fray of homosexual politics.
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy and evolution.Brain size can be measured by weight or by volume (via MRI scans or …
The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system. A project to map the structure and function of the human brain has been proposed.
EXCERPTS FROM BRAIN SEX. BRAIN SEX: The real difference between men and women by Anne Moir, Ph.D. and David Jessel. Dell Publishing (paperback), New York, 1992. Men are different from women. They are equal …
Sex/gender differences in the brain are of high social interest because their presence is typically assumed to prove that humans belong to two distinct categories not only in terms of their genitalia, and thus justify differential treatment of males and females.
On April 11, 1944, a doctor named T. C. Erickson addressed the Chicago Neurological Society about a patient he called Mrs. C. W. At age 43 she had started to wake up many nights feeling as if she were having sex—or as she put it to Erickson, feeling “hot all over.” As the years passed her hot
Sex can truly be the spice of life, but what does it do to the brain, and how does it impact our hormonal activity? This Spotlight investigates.
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate s. The brain is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision.
SEATTLE (BRAIN) — The bike community across the country is mourning the death of SJ Brooks, who died in a cougar attack while mountain biking near Seattle last Saturday.
