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| Title |
Male or Female? Brains are Intersex
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnint.2011.00057 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daphna Joel |
| Abstract |
The underlying assumption in popular and scientific publications on sex differences in the brain is that human brains can take one of two forms "male" or "female," and that the differences between these two forms underlie differences between men and women in personality, cognition, emotion, and behavior. Documented sex differences in brain structure are typically taken to support this dimorphic view of the brain. However, neuroanatomical data reveal that sex interacts with other factors in utero and throughout life to determine the structure of the brain, and that because these interactions are complex, the result is a multi-morphic, rather than a dimorphic, brain. More specifically, here I argue that human brains are composed of an ever-changing heterogeneous mosaic of "male" and "female" brain characteristics (rather than being all "male" or all "female") that cannot be aligned on a continuum between a "male brain" and a "female brain." I further suggest that sex differences in the direction of change in the brain mosaic following specific environmental events lead to sex differences in neuropsychiatric disorders. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 111 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 8% |
| Spain | 4 | 4% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Australia | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Unknown | 65 | 59% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 92 | 83% |
| Scientists | 12 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 185 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Israel | 2 | 1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 175 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 44 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 11% |
| Researcher | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 31 | 17% |
| Unknown | 42 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 35 | 19% |
| Neuroscience | 26 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 13% |
| Unknown | 52 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 170. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2024.
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