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Structural and Functional Sex Differences in the Human Hypothalamus

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Structural and Functional Sex Differences in the Human Hypothalamus

Dick F. Swaab,* ,1 Wilson C. J. Chung,* , † Frank P. M. Kruijver,*
Michel A. Hofman,* and Tatjana A. Ishunina* , ‡
*Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research,
Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; †Department of Psychology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; and ‡Department of Histology
and Embryology, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russia
Received August 9, 2000; accepted March 1, 2001
 
Sex differences in the brain may be the basis not only for
sex differences in reproduction, gender identity (the feel-
ing of being male or female), and sexual orientation
(heterosexuality vs homosexuality), but also for the sex
difference in prevalence of psychiatric and neurological
diseases (Swaab and Hofman, 1995). In this brief article
we discuss a few examples of structural and functional
sex differences in the human brain. © 2001 Academic Press
 

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