CAMBRIDGE, England — The age-old debate about differences between male and female brains has taken a dramatic turn with new evidence suggesting these variations begin before a baby’s first cry.

One occasionally hears claims, for example, that investment banking and start-up entrepreneurship are male-dominated because men are more prone to risk-taking than women. But as Cordelia Fine ...

(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means ...

not even a water pistol,” a young mother told me emphatically from the microphone in the lecture hall where I’d just given a talk on the differences between male and female brains. “But the other day ...

Structural differences between male and female brains are apparent from the very earliest days of life, according to a new study. The researchers found that even in young babies, female brains ...

Based on research in her book The Gendered Brain, neuroscientist Gina Rippon gives her opinion on why she believes we should rethink the idea of the human brain being 'gendered' and look again at ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A study at Tel Aviv University has given us some extremely telling information about male and female brains. And it's poised to change the way we think about the ...

Microglia, the brain’s immune cells, play vital roles in clearing toxins and maintaining neuronal health but can also contribute to neurodegenerative diseases if overactive.

While male brains tended to be greater in volume than female brains, when adjusted for total brain volume, female infants on average had significantly more grey matter, while male infants on average ...

Male brains tend to have a greater volume than female brains but when adjusted for size, female infants typically have ...

President Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person’s sex assigned at ...