Sex and the brain

Peter Monaghan

A glance at the May issue of Scientific American: Sex and the brain

Over the past decade, researchers have documented many structural, chemical, and functional differences between men's and women's brains, and that finding could lead to sex-specific treatments for many medical conditions, including depression, schizophrenia, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder, writes Larry Cahill, an assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at