Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is ...

Researchers have discovered a distinct cluster of brain cells in mice that behaves like an on and off switch for sex-specific social behaviors, turning on permanently in females but remaining quiet in ...

Example neuron in the anterior ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH, blue line). Using a technique called “uncaging”, researchers found that inhibitory signals near the centre of this neuron (yellow squares ...