Sentences with phrase «than in female brain»

The scientists found RB was more likely to be inactivated in male brain cells than in female brain cells.

Not exact matches

According to the latest studies from the fly laboratory of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) biologist David Anderson, male Drosophilae, commonly known as fruit flies, fight more than their female counterparts because they have special cells in their brains that promote fighting.

Strikingly, despite the overall tendency for male brains to be larger, 10 of these regions had more modulatory neurons in females than in males.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

Big - brained females were eaten about 13 per cent less often than small - brained ones though there was no such link in males, whose bright colours may counter any benefits of higher intelligence (Ecology Letters, doi.org/4p9).

According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Female Brain.

«We found more changes in brain electrical activity in male subjects, than in females, which was a surprise, as we expected it would be the other way around.

But in males, each cerebellum had more links to the cortex on the opposite side of the brain than females.

Male birds tend to be better singers than females — but does the basis for this difference lie in the brain or in the syrinx, the bird equivalent of our larynx?

Specifically, females without autism have a slightly higher level of RORA in the frontal cortex of the brain than males without autism, while the levels of the protein are comparably lower in the brain of both males and females with autism.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

On average, males had larger absolute volumes than females in the intracranial space (12 %; > 14,000 brains), total brain (11 %; 2,523 brains), cerebrum (10 %; 1,851 brains), grey matter (9 %; 7,934 brains), white matter (13 %; 7,515 brains), regions filled with cerebrospinal fluid (11.5 %; 4,484 brains), and cerebellum (9 %; 1,842 brains).

Dr. Williams led the Duke School of Medicine during a period notable for its ascendance from 11th to 2nd in the national rankings of NIH - grant support, a near doubling of its annual budget to more than $ 800 million, the addition of six new academic buildings, the first appointments of department chairs who are female or African - American and the founding of successful multidisciplinary institutes in genome sciences, brain sciences, global health and translational medicine.

When the researchers added cocaine to injured mouse brains, they found that male mice with concussions had more dopamine building up in between cells than did females or non-injured mice.

When the researchers analyzed NHE1 levels in the brains of male and female lab rats, the researchers found them to be four times higher in the males than in the females.

Again, you can blame it on biology: The frontal lobes of the brain — which deal with responsibility and risk calculation — develop much more slowly in males than females, Dr. Legato says.

A recent study of male and female social drinkers found that men had a greater dopamine release than women in an area of the brain called the ventral striatum, which is strongly associated with pleasure, reinforcement, and addiction formation.

Years ago, when females lagged behind males in math, some experts asserted that females» brains were structured differently than males, which limited their ability to learn math.

In addition, males are three times more likely to sustain a traumatic brain injury than females.

The brains of males and females could be structured differently (nature); boys could receive more encouragement from adults to engage in activities that promote spatial skills (environment); or boys could have an innate preference for such activities and improve their abilities through greater practice than girls, who prefer other activities (interaction).