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Recipe for a sexually dimorphic brain: Ingredients include ovarian and testicular hormones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Diane F. Halpern
Diane F. Halpern
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA 92407 dhalpern@wiley.csusb.edu
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Abstract

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New knowledge about the sexual differentiation of the brain profoundly changes our understanding of basic topics in brain development such as the false dichotomy between long-lasting and transient effects of hormones on neural activity, the importance of ovarian hormones in brain development, the plasticity of neural structures throughout the life span, and the way measurement issues affect research conclusions.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 330 - 331
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press