Women primarily produce estrogen and progesterone, which influence neural plasticity (the brain's ability to remodel itself). Men, on the other hand, are dominated by testosterone, a hormone that ...

Women also respond very differently to the disease than men do. For example, women tend to have more abnormal accumulations of an Alzheimer’s-related protein in their brains before actually ...

Women tend to outlive men and stay mentally sharp longer, ... A machine-learned algorithm showed that women's brains were on average about 3.8 years younger than their chronological ages.

Scientists have long known that fungi can cause often fatal brain infections in humans, and now they are “earnestly” ...

A Nevada-based clinic is working to tackle answers to why more women than men are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Women make up about two-thirds of the more than 7 million Americans currently ...

There’s even some evidence that testosterone could have a protective effect in men’s brains—and could potentially help women, too (but more studies are needed).