Sex as a Biological Variable: Who, What, When, Why, and How

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 386-396

  Bale, Tracy L ^a,b   Epperson, C Neill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

GENDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEX AS A BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84992345033     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.215     Document Type: Review

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