Is it important to consider sex and gender in neurocognitive studies?

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Mendrek, Adrianna ^a  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition and Emotion; Drug addiction; Gender; Schizophrenia; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COGNITION; FEMININITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TASK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 84940109650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00083     Document Type: Article

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