Emerging animal research is revealing fundamental differences between male and female brains. These differences manifest in how sex hormones influence brains at the basic level of memory formation ...

To uncover what drives sexual behavior in animals, researchers studied the brain activity of male mice throughout the ... The researchers found that mouse brains started to release acetylcholine ...

Female cells typically have two X chromosomes, one from each parent; male cells usually have one ... To study this in the mouse brain, Dubal’s team bred two types of laboratory mice to produce ...

To see if the reawakening of PLP1 might boost cognition, the scientists ran some experiments with male and female mice. In ...

The scientists created hybrid mice from two different strains of laboratory mouse and engineered ... signals. Old female mice had more PLP1 in the hippocampus than old male mice, suggesting ...