Profound environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological changes mark the transition to
motherhood as a major biosocial life event. Despite the ubiquity of motherhood, the …

After advanced age, female sex is the major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(AD), the most common cause of dementia affecting over 24 million people worldwide. The …

Studies have shown differences in specific cognitive ability domains and risk of Alzheimer's
disease between the men and women at later age. However it is important to know that sex …

In the third edition of her popular text, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Diane Halpern
tackles fundamental questions about the meaning of sex differences in cognition and why …

Background: Many biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors may contribute
to the delay or prevention of cognitive decline. Purpose: To summarize evidence about …

A severe impairment of cognitive function characterizes dementia. Mild cognitive impairment
represents a transition between normal cognition and dementia. The frequency of cognitive …

Introduction Despite a large preclinical literature demonstrating neuroprotective effects of
estrogen, use of menopausal hormone therapy (HT) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk …

Growing attention has been directed to the inclusion of females in neuroscience studies, and
to the importance of studying sex as a biological variable. However, how female-specific …

Sex differences in intelligence is among the most politically volatile topics in contemporary
psychology. Although no single finding has unanimous support, conclusions from multiple …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Estradiol and Cognition”. There are sex differences in
hippocampus-dependent cognition and neurogenesis suggesting that sex hormones are …