Sex is a fundamentally important biological variable. Recent years have seen significant progress in the integration of sex in many aspects of basic and clinical research, including analyses of sex differences in brain function. Significant advances in the technology available for studying the endocrine and nervous systems are now coupled with a more sophisticated awareness of the interconnections of these two communication systems of the body. A thorough understanding of the current knowledge, conceptual approaches, ...
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Sex is a fundamentally important biological variable. Recent years have seen significant progress in the integration of sex in many aspects of basic and clinical research, including analyses of sex differences in brain function. Significant advances in the technology available for studying the endocrine and nervous systems are now coupled with a more sophisticated awareness of the interconnections of these two communication systems of the body. A thorough understanding of the current knowledge, conceptual approaches, methodological capabilities, and challenges is a prerequisite to continued progress in research and therapeutics in this interdisciplinary area. Sex Differences in the Brain provides scientists with the basic tools for investigating sex differences in brain and behavior and insight into areas where important progress in understanding physiologically relevant sex differences has already been made. This book was edited and co-authored by members of the Isis Fund Network on Sex, Gender, Drugs and the Brain, sponsored by the Society for Womens Health Research. The book is arranged in three parts. The first part of the book introduces the study of sex differences in the brain, with an overview of how the brain, stress systems, and pharmacogenetics differ in males and females and how this information is important for the study of behavior and neurobiology of both genders. The second part presents examples of sex differences in neurobiology and behavior from both basic and clinical research perspectives, covering both humans and nonhuman animals. The final part discusses sex differences in the neurobiology of disease and neurological disorders. For interested individuals as well as those who are considering conducting research at the intersections of endocrinology, neuroscience, and other areas of biomedicine, the study of sex differences offers exciting and challenging questions and perspectives. This book is intended as a guide and resource for clinicians, scientists, and students.
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Sex (male-female) is a key variable in offering best health outcomes in medicine. Women have special and different needs, men have special and different needs, including treatment for brain related and psychological health issues.
The table of contents alone will illustrate better than a short review how comprehensive is the coverage of this book. It is squarely focussed at giving the reader a concise overview of key concepts arising from recent research, and how those contribute to providing gender specific health support.
It will be particularly valuable for senior health care administration in confirming rationales for government funding and justifying that treating people equally fairly often means treating them differently.
It will probably be equally valuable for young professionals entering health care, as an entree into the world of scientific reality regarding sex differences, that even undergraduate education in other disciplines tends to keep locked away in a "need to know" file, too dangerous for public consumption.
It's completely non-ideological and a-political, it is simply a lot of science regarding how to help people with needs that are brute facts.
Bibliographies were particularly useful for this reviewer, since I'm an interdisciplinary researcher, outside the field of primary health care.
