Sex differences in brain structure present at birth
07 Jan 2025 Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has shown.
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Not so 'swinging sixties' revealed by study of UK's first sexual health clinics
20 Jan 2022 Young people behaving responsibly in the 1960s helped to defeat fierce opposition to the UK’s first sexual health clinics, the Brook Advisory Centres...
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Sex and the brain: fruitless research?
02 Jun 2016 The male and female brains have more in common than media reports often suggest, argues Julia Gottwald, a third year PhD student at the Department of...
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Opinion: Losing your virginity: how we discovered that genes could play a part
15 Apr 2016 John Perry and Ken Ong (MRC Epidemiology Unit) discuss how sexual milestones are influenced by our genes and how this can impact on broader health...
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Brain activity in sex addiction mirrors that of drug addiction
11 Jul 2014 Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs...
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Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS
19 Jun 2012 New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play...
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