Venus and mars: the importance of sex in late-life neuropsychiatric disorders

Sex has increasingly become recognized as an important biological variable in brain disorders. Differences in the risk for both cognitive and emotional disorders by sex and gender are an increasing area of investigation. While women are at higher risk for depression and Alzheimer's disease, the causes of these differences are poorly understood and the implications for therapy not exploited in a systematic way. Advances in clinical and translational neuroscience have begun to reveal potential reasons for these sex differences.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Session 203 Source Type: research