Talk:Neuroscience of sex differences/Archive 1

Merge discussion

There are a few sentences of salvageable content at Neural masculinization that could be merged here. Most of what is there is not sourced, is duplicate info from hormone articles, or uses sources that don't mention the term. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:48, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Essentialism

This article features some very interesting material on sexual dimorphism, but lacks an answer to perhaps the most interesting question: are these differences invariable? In other words, are there no exceptions?

For example, can an individual man be inclined to use both hemispheres as equally as a woman does? Can an individual woman have amygdalae as large as those of a man? Can an individual man have left orbitofrontal GM volumes and overall cortical thickness as large as those of a woman? Et cetera. 213.109.230.96 (talk) 09:24, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Probably yes to all, that is the differences aren't invariable. This study uses sophisticated imaging and heavy duty maths to differentiate between men, women, and pre-HRT trans men and women, so individual aspects likely overlap and it requires taking the whole brain into account to tell the gender of a brain. 24.148.82.193 (talk) 14:43, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

INAH3

The article states incorrectly that Simon LeVay's 1991 Science study reported on a greater neuronal packing density in gay men's INAH3. LeVay did not measure neuronal packing density, but only the overall size of INAH3. The writer is confusing LeVay's study with a follow-up study by William Byne and colleagues. Blixton (talk) 05:11, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Feel free to correct the article. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:39, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

new study but there older publication with a similar bent

• http://www.livescience.com/52941-brain-is-mix-male-and-female.html
• https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/

--Kmhkmh (talk) 05:39, 8 January 2016 (UTC)