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Sex differences in neurology and psychiatry /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Handbook of clinical neurology ;
3rd ser., v. 175. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Sex Differences in Neurology and Psychiatry
- Copyright
- Available titles
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Contents
- Section I: Sex differences in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
- Chapter 1: Structural differences between male and female brains
- Why Sex Matters: Searching for Differences Between Male and Female Brains
- A Short Detour Into the World (of Human Brain Mapping): Global, Regional, and Local
- A Mixed Bag: A Multitude of (Conflicting) Findings Based on Structural MRI
- Global measures
- Regional measures
- Some general observations
- A specific consideration: The corpus callosum
- Local measures
- Voxel-wise gray matter volume
- Vertex-wise cortical thickness
- Point-wise cortical gyrification
- Why Size Matters: The Possible Confounding Impact of Total Brain Volume
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2: Beyond sex differences and a male-female continuum: Mosaic brains in a multidimensional space
- The Basis of the Mosaic Hypothesis: Studies in Laboratory Animals
- Testing the Mosaic Hypothesis
- Mosaic in human brain structure and connectivity as revealed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Mosaic in brain connectivity
- Mosaic in neuronal numbers in the post-mortem human hypothalamus
- Mosaic in structural changes following exposure to severe real-life stress
- A Comment on the Source of Differences Between Women and Men
- Typical and Rare Brain ``Types��
- Criticism of the Mosaic Hypothesis
- Questioning the analytical method used to test the mosaic hypothesis
- The question of prediction
- The straw-man criticism of the mosaic hypothesis
- Moving from a Male-Female Continuum to a Multidimension Space
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Sex differences and brain development during puberty and adolescence
- Introduction
- Sex Effects on Anatomical Brain Changes Across Childhood and Adolescence
- Anatomical brain changes
- Cerebral cortex
- Subcortical structures
- White matter
- Sex effects on anatomical brain development
- Cerebral cortex
- Subcortical structures
- White matter
- Greater male variability in brain structure and development
- Behavioral and Functional Brain Changes and Sex Effects
- Behavioral changes and brain functioning
- Social and affective functioning
- Social relationships
- Emotion processing and amygdala responsiveness
- Behavioral control, risk-taking, and cognitive development
- Sex effects in adolescent functional brain changes and behavior
- Sex effects in affective brain functioning
- Sex effects in behavioral control, risk-taking, and cognitive functioning
- Sex steroid hormones at puberty and adolescence
- Gender Identity Development
- Gender incongruence
- Sexual orientation
- Effects of puberty suppression and gender-affirming hormones on brain and cognition
- Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References