Reports Summarize Brain Research Findings from University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (Sex Is a Defining Feature of Neuroimaging Phenotypes In Major Brain Disorders)

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2021 SEP 21 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - A new study on Central Nervous System - Brain Research is now available. According to news reporting out of Marina del Rey, California, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "Sex is a biological variable that contributes to individual variability in brain structure and behavior. Neuroimaging studies of population-based samples have identified normative differences in brain structure between males and females, many of which are exacerbated in psychiatric and neurological conditions." Funders for this research include NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA). Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, "Still, sex differences in MRI outcomes are understudied, particularly in clinical samples with known sex differences in disease risk, prevalence, and expression of clinical symptoms. Here we review the existing literature on sex differences in adult brain structure in normative samples and in 14 distinct psychiatric and neurological disorders.