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 ...

Research indicates that hormonal therapies and later menopause are associated with increased brain volume and thickness, ...

Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has shown. While male brains tended to be greater in volume than ...

Women with Parkinson's disease may be more vulnerable to Alzheimer's-related changes in the brain than men, according to new ...

For at least 20 years, neuroscientists have been trying to discover whether there are specific anatomical differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women. An early post-mortem study ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared ...

New research reveals that age, biological sex, and cognitive ability correspond to distinct patterns in the brain waves that ...

A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, a loss of ...

A recent study found that the degree to which a person possesses autistic traits is linked to how their brain processes ...

A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...