Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

Observations of the disproportionate incidence of depression in women compared with men
have long preceded the recent explosion of interest in sex differences. Nonetheless, the …

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in our understanding of
structural and functional brain development in adolescence. However, understanding the …

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the
research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology …

Depression and anxiety are diagnosed almost twice as often in women, and the
symptomology differs in men and women and is sensitive to sex hormones. The basolateral …

There are sex differences in the prevalence and presentation of many psychiatric disorders.
For example, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression are more common …

Background: There is evidence of structural brain alterations in major depressive disorder
(MDD), but little is known about how these alterations might be affected by age at onset or …

Common beliefs regard women as being more emotional than men. However, assessing
differences in emotional feelings holds methodological challenges because of being based …

Background: The role of emotion is crucial to the learning process, as it is linked to
motivation, interest, and attention. Affective states are expressed in the brain and in overall …