Sex Differences in Developing Brain
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 3776
Special Issue Editor
Interests: multimodal brain imaging; psychophysics; magnetoencephalography (MEG); structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (f/MRI); diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); sex differences; social cognition; autism; depression; schizophre-nia; developmental disabilities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the most fascinating, complex, and dynamic part of our organism, the brain is shaped by many interacting factors that not only are of neurobiological (including sex hormones) and environmental origin but are also sociocultural in their very nature (such as social roles).The developing brain undergoes remodeling over the whole lifespan, in particular during childhood and adolescence, but also in aging. Many changes are connected with sex (a neurobiological variable) and gender (a sociocultural construct). Without investigating the impact of sex/gender, it is difficult, if not impossible, to make any progress in understanding behavior and brain functioning in health and disease. Most neurodevelopmental, neurological, and psychiatric disorders (such as autism spectrum disorder, ASD, and major depressive disorder, MDD) are sex/gender-specific: females and males are affected differently in terms of clinical picture, prevalence, and severity. We believe that this Special Issue will contribute to developing new and improving already existing intervention models (for example, in neuro- and psychorehabilitation), and remediation. On the other hand, this work will shed light on functioning of the persistently developing brain in normalcy.
This Special Issue focuses on how sex/gender shape the changing brain. We welcome papers on gender/sex differences in all domains of research, including brain imaging, behavioral, clinical, animal, comparative, and developmental studies.
Original research studies, reviews, perspectives, and opinion articles are welcome.
Dr. Marina A. Pavlova
Guest Editor
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