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- October 29, 2015
- 08:50 PM
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Brains of Men and Women More Similar Than Different
by Marie Benz in MedicalResearch.com
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Lise Eliot PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience Chicago Medical School Rosalind Franklin University North Chicago, IL 60064 Medical Research: What is the background for this study? Dr. Eliot: The hippocampus participates in many behaviors that differ … Continue reading →
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Lise Eliot PhD. (2015) Brains of Men and Women More Similar Than Different. MedicalResearch.com. info:/
- March 17, 2015
- 08:31 AM
- 1,091 views
Gender equality in science: it takes a village
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
SUMMARY: Late last year, a metastudy was published showing that, since 2000, things are improving for women working in most STEM-based fields, although there are some notable exceptions... Read more »
Ceci S. J., S. Kahn, & W. M. Williams. (2014) Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 15(3), 75-141. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1529100614541236
Smith Kristin A., Fiona M. Watt, & Susan L. Solomon. (2015) Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Cell Stem Cell, 16(3), 221-224. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.012
- February 14, 2015
- 07:56 PM
- 630 views
Gender Identity Is A Biologic Process
by Marie Benz in MedicalResearch.com
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MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Joshua D. Safer MD, FACP Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Training and Endocrinology Education Boston University Medical Center Associate Professor of Medicine and Molecular Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Medical Research: What is the background for this … Continue reading →
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- January 5, 2015
- 02:32 PM
- 954 views
Journal Club: Halfsider: a bizarre half-male half-female bird
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
SUMMARY: A “halfsider” -- half male and half female bird -- has been mentioned in the news over the holidays. More properly known as bilateral gynandromorphs or tetragametic chimæras, these unusual birds are actually two genetically distinct individuals -- twins -- fused into one being. But what is it like to be such an individual? A recently published paper shares observations of the behaviour and social life of one such individual living in the wild.... Read more »
Peer Brian D. (2014) Observations of a Bilateral Gynandromorph Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) . The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 126(4), 778-781. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1676/14-025.1
Agate R. J., J. Wade, S. Mann, J. Wingfield, C. Schanen, A. Palotie, & A. P. Arnold. (2003) Neural, not gonadal, origin of brain sex differences in a gynandromorphic finch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(8), 4873-4878. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0636925100
Chue Justin. (2011) Sex determination and sexual differentiation in the avian model. FEBS Journal, 278(7), 1027-1034. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08032.x
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- June 4, 2014
- 11:16 AM
- 1,172 views
Is widespread sexism making hurricanes more deadly than himmicanes? | @BobOHara & @GrrlScientist
by GrrlScientist in GrrlScientist
We take a closer look at a recent paper that claims that hurricanes given female-sounding names cause more damage than "himmicanes" (hurricanes given male-sounding names) due to public underestimation of risk associated with name gender.... Read more »
Jung Kiju, Shavitt Sharon, Viswanathan Madhu, & Hilbe Joseph M. (2014) Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402786111
- March 1, 2014
- 07:25 PM
- 1,198 views
Impossible Binaries? Eating Disorders Among Trans Individuals
by Andrea in Science of Eating Disorders
Recently I was doing some research for an upcoming (and very exciting) endeavour that involves exploring eating disorders among LGBTQ individuals. As one does, I set about scouring the research literature in this area in the hopes of stumbling across some prior articles on which to hang my proverbial research hat.
As I sifted through the databases, however, my searches kept coming up short. After sending out a call to a list-serv enquiring about the state of the field in this area, I rec........ Read more »
Murray SB, Boon E, & Touyz SW. (2013) Diverging eating psychopathology in transgendered eating disorder patients: a report of two cases. Eating Disorders, 21(1), 70-4. PMID: 23241091
- April 3, 2013
- 07:02 AM
- 597 views
The Millennial demand for work/life balance: A harbinger of good to come?
by Rita Handrich in The Jury Room
Unless you live under a rock, you have heard about the Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO) book: Leaning In. She has been in the middle of a media whirlwind for the last few weeks. A couple of weeks ago, I turned the TV on while eating a late lunch and found myself watching the Katie Couric talk [...]
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Sheryl Sandberg. (2013) Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Knopf Publishing. info:/
- March 3, 2013
- 09:17 PM
- 1,059 views
“It Wasn’t My Idea to Come Here”: Young Women Lack Ownership of the Idea to Immigrate
by Mark Rubin in Mark Rubin's Social Psychology Research Blog
Together with getting married and buying a house, the decision to immigrate is one of the most important decisions that a person can make. So, it’s important that immigrants feel that they have satisfactory input into the process of deciding whether or not to migrate. In some recent research, I looked at a very early stage of this decision-making process: ownership of the idea to immigrate.... Read more »
Rubin, M. (2013) “It wasn’t my idea to come here!”: Ownership of the idea to immigrate as a function of gender, age, and culture. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.02.001
- January 16, 2013
- 11:11 AM
- 848 views
Do men get ‘phantom limb’ feelings after gender reassignment?
by Stuart Farrimond in Guru: Science Blog
If a man has gender reassignment surgery will he suffer ‘phantom limb’ type feelings? Asked by @christomill via twitter Phantom limb syndrome is the sensation of a body part being present even after it has been amputated. A most peculiar condition, for the amputee the absent limb can feel very real and even as that [...]... Read more »
Ramachandran, V., & McGeoch, P. (2007) Occurrence of phantom genitalia after gender reassignment surgery. Medical Hypotheses, 69(5), 1001-1003. DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.02.024
- January 9, 2013
- 12:30 PM
- 964 views
Price Winning Research: Do children keep their mother from working?
by Rense Nieuwenhuis in Curving Normality
“Do children keep their mother from working?” I used this title for a poster presented at a PhD conference, two years ago. The intentionally provocativeprovocative title, of course, spurred some discussion about the world being a little more complex than it suggested. Of course it is, I know. But it got the attention of many. Today, I won a best research award.... Read more »
Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ariana Need, & Henk van der Kolk. (2012) Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women's Employment in 18 OECD Countries, 1975-1999. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74(June), 614-630. info:/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00965.x
- December 15, 2012
- 12:14 PM
- 1,490 views
Psychology: Where are all the men
by Dorothy Bishop in bishopblog
There is much concern about underrepresentation of women in some sciences, but less has been written about under-representation of men in psychology. This is a growing trend, but the question is whether anything should be done about it.... Read more »
Marc Smith. (2011) Failing boys, failing psychology. The Psychologist, 24(5), 390-391. info:other/WOS:000290745000037
Howard, A., & et al, . (1986) The changing face of American psychology: A report from the Committee on Employment and Human Resources. American Psychologist, 41(12), 1311-1327. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.41.12.1311
- October 16, 2012
- 06:05 PM
- 982 views
SfN Neuroblogging 2012: Implicit and Explicit Gender Bias
by TheCellularScale in The Cellular Scale
Today I am going to talk about just one thing rather than poster highlights from the whole day. As always, all the SfN Neuroblogging posts can be found here. Other posts on gender and neurosexism can be found here. Today was the annual "Celebration of Women in Neuroscience Luncheon." This is one of the highlights of SfN for me each year. There is always a fantastic speaker (Phyllis Wise this year) and the lunch is delicious. Phyllis Wise brought up the 'exact same resume study' in her........ Read more »
Moss-Racusin CA, Dovidio JF, Brescoll VL, Graham MJ, & Handelsman J. (2012) Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(41), 16474-9. PMID: 22988126
- September 6, 2012
- 09:53 PM
- 1,668 views
LMAYQ: Relationship Advice
by TheCellularScale in The Cellular Scale
We have reached the part of our program where I answer your important google questions. As always, these are real true questions that I found on my 'keyword search terms'. You can see all of these posts and the questions they answer here. Today's theme: Relationships1. "Is there a difference in dopamine level between men and women?"Great question. In my post "Neurosexism and Delusions of Gender", I present a graph from Di Liberto et al., 2012 showing that female and male (mice) brain........ Read more »
Lansing SW, & Lonstein JS. (2006) Tyrosine hydroxylase-synthesizing cells in the hypothalamus of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): sex differences in the anteroventral periventricular preoptic area and effects of adult gonadectomy or neonatal gonadal hormones. Journal of neurobiology, 66(3), 197-204. PMID: 16329116
Di Liberto V, Mäkelä J, Korhonen L, Olivieri M, Tselykh T, Mälkiä A, Do Thi H, Belluardo N, Lindholm D, & Mudò G. (2012) Involvement of estrogen receptors in the resveratrol-mediated increase in dopamine transporter in human dopaminergic neurons and in striatum of female mice. Neuropharmacology, 62(2), 1011-8. PMID: 22041555
- September 2, 2012
- 09:34 AM
- 1,647 views
Think like a man: could gender priming improve female recall of general knowledge?
by Scott McGreal in Eye on Psych
As noted in a previous posting, a number of studies have found that males outperform females on tests of general knowledge. The reasons for this are not yet clear. Women’s poorer test performance could be because they actually have acquired less knowledge than men, or it could be that they are not accessing all the knowledge they have. Studies have found that experimental manipulations can actually improve a person’s performance on general knowledge tests to an extent. Women generall........ Read more »
Dijksterhuis, A., . (1998) The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of trivial pursuit. . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(4), 865-877. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.4.865
Ortner, T. M., . (2008) Where are the Gender Differences? Male Priming Boosts Spatial Skills in Women. Sex Roles, 59(3-4), 274-281. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9448-9
- August 14, 2012
- 08:56 AM
- 1,126 views
James Joyce, Intertextuality and Memoir
by Janine Utell in The Comics Grid. Journal of Comics Scholarship
Janine Utell examines James Joyce, intertextuality, and the transgressive figure of the daughter in two recent graphic memoirs: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (2006) and Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot (2012). ... Read more »
Pearl, M. (2008) “Graphic Language: Redrawing the Family (Romance) in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” . Prose Studies , 30(3), 286-304. DOI: 10.1080/01440350802704853
Watson, J. (2008) “Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” . Biography, 31(1), 27-58. DOI: 10.1353/bio.0.0006
- August 1, 2012
- 06:52 AM
- 1,694 views
Understanding Disordered Eating in Transgendered Individuals: A Qualitative Approach
by Tetyana in Science of Eating Disorders
Gender nonconformity is the second most popular search term that leads people to Science of Eating Disorders. (After “science of eds” and beating “science of eating disorders”.) Not far behind are variants of “FtM/MtF/transsexual/transgender” combined with “eating disorder/anorexia/bulimia”. That’s telling. It means there is little information on this topic. And it is not just that there’s too little information available to the public ........ Read more »
Algars, M., Alanko, K., Santtila, P., & Sandnabba, N.K. (2012) Disordered Eating and Gender Identity Disorder: A Qualitative Study. Eating Disorders, 20(4), 300-11. PMID: 22703571
- July 22, 2012
- 08:48 PM
- 2,276 views
Do small men think like big women?
by TheCellularScale in The Cellular Scale
Endless research has been conducted on the neurological differences between women and men. However, a study out of the University of Florida explains that almost all of the anatomical differences previously reported can be accounted for simply by adjusting for total brain size.(Lady Gaga is an excellent source of exaggerated imagery)Leonard et al., (2008) recruited 100 men and 100 women and imaged their brains. They showed that men generally have larger brains that women (not surprisin........ Read more »
DeLacoste-Utamsing C, & Holloway RL. (1982) Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 216(4553), 1431-2. PMID: 7089533
Leonard CM, Towler S, Welcome S, Halderman LK, Otto R, Eckert MA, & Chiarello C. (2008) Size matters: cerebral volume influences sex differences in neuroanatomy. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 18(12), 2920-31. PMID: 18440950
- July 3, 2012
- 08:28 AM
- 1,605 views
Eating Disorders: Do Men and Women Differ? (Not Really)
by Tetyana in Science of Eating Disorders
Given that eating disorders disproportionately affect women, it is not unreasonable to assume that men with eating disorders differ from women in clinical presentation, personality and psychological features and treatment interventions. My guess would be that they differ. My reasoning is this: males and females grow up facing different pressures and expectations. Given that, I’d think there would be (perhaps only slightly) different risk factors that predispose men and women to develop e........ Read more »
Woodside, D.B., Garfinkel, P.E., Lin, E., Goering, P., Kaplan, A.S., Goldbloom, D.S., & Kennedy, S.H. (2001) Comparisons of men with full or partial eating disorders, men without eating disorders, and women with eating disorders in the community. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(4), 570-4. PMID: 11282690
- June 24, 2012
- 06:01 PM
- 2,004 views
In defense of pink microscopes
by TheCellularScale in The Cellular Scale
I know I am late to the party here, as the "Science is a girl thing" video (embedded below) came out Friday and has already been ripped to shreds by many a blog. But I just couldn't stop thinking about it, so here's my opinion on that video and pinkifying science in general.Hello Kitty Microscope I am reminded of a quote from Pres. Obama's initial campaign. He said (something like) "We need to shatter the blasphemy that says a black child with a book is acting white." It is equally t........ Read more »
Diana E. Betz, & Denise Sekaquaptewa. (2012) My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 10.1177/1948550612440735
- May 15, 2012
- 07:49 AM
- 1,394 views
Gender Nonconformity, Transsexuality and Eating Disorders
by Tetyana in Science of Eating Disorders
Too many people still mistakenly believe that eating disorders are for the Mary-Kates, Nicole Richies and Lara-Flynn Boyles, or vain adolescent and teenage girls aspiring to be just like them. Actually, as I’ve blogged earlier, even male veterans in late middle age are not immune to struggling with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. All in all, males make up ~ 5-10% of all eating disorder sufferers. But what about those that dread having to check off “male/man” or “female/woman” on a data f........ Read more »
Vocks, S., Stahn, C., Loenser, K., & Legenbauer, T. (2009) Eating and body image disturbances in male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38(3), 364-77. PMID: 19030979
Hepp, U., & Milos, G. (2002) Gender identity disorder and eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 32(4), 473-478. DOI: 10.1002/eat.10090
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