Кон Doreen Kimura, Sex and Cognition

For Space ( 2005 ) : Doreen Massey

On page 108 of For Space, an impassioned book that discloses the theoretical and political challenges of thinking space, a map of part of the South-East of England is inscribed with a very simple if perhaps initially puzzling phrase: The phrase recalls Rene Margritte’s famous inscription below a painting of a pipe: ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (this is not a pipe). Initially, like Margritte’s phra...

Kimura Disease and Angiolymphoid

Cognition, mood disorders, and sex hormones.

Macaques (Macaca spp.) are useful models to evaluate effects of ovarian sex steroids and selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) on mood and cognitive function due to similarities to women in their reproductive and central nervous systems. The results of nonhuman primate studies support the hypothesis that estrogen mediates specific aspects of attention and memory, yet much work is neede...

Olfaction and cognition in schizophrenia: sex matters.

Cognitive and olfactory deficits occur in schizophrenia, but little is known whether sex modifies these deficits. We examined the relationship between olfaction and cognition in 55 schizophrenia patients and 32 healthy controls. Patients and controls demonstrated significant differences performing cognitive tasks. In patients, sex modified all relationships of odor identification to cognition. ...

Sex Differences in the Brain BY DOREEN KIMURA MEN AND WOMEN DISPLAY PATTERNS OF BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE DIFFERENCES THAT REFLECT VARYING HORMONAL INFLUENCES ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT originally published in the special edition The Hidden Mind