News tagged with sex disorders
After years of research, drug for 'female sexual dysfunction' remains elusive
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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The pharmaceutical industry's push to find a female version of Viagra has been full of letdowns.
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Double identities lie behind chromosome disorders
Jul 08, 2007 |
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Chromosome disorders in sex cells cause infertility, miscarriage and irregular numbers of chromosomes (aneuploidy) in neonates. A new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics shows ...
Study: Most female child molesters were victims of sexual abuse
May 13, 2008 |
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A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.
'Achilles' heel' in Y chromosome linked to sex disorders
Sep 03, 2009 |
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The unique mechanism behind the evolutionary survival of the human Y chromosome may also be responsible for a range of sex disorders, from failed sperm production to sex reversal to Turner Syndrome.
Sex and prenatal hormone exposure affect cognitive performance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 13, 2007 |
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Yerkes researchers are using their findings to better understand sex differences in cognitive performance, which may lead to increased understanding of the difference in neuropsychological disorders men and women experience.
Women more depressed and men more impulsive with reduced serotonin functioning
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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Women and men appear to respond differently to the same biochemical manipulation. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common mental disorders, and it is also one of the most studied. It is already known that ...
Battle of sex in genes and the brain
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Sex is good for a lot of things. One of the most important is the way in which sex leads to a shuffling of the genetic cards in every individual. Scientists in Cardiff are beginning to build up a picture of what certain genes ...
Children of older fathers more likely to have bipolar disorder
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Older age among fathers may be associated with an increased risk for bipolar disorder in their offspring, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
ATRX -- Too much or too little underlies sex abnormalities
Jul 26, 2007 |
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6% of the patient population in Melbourne carries a genetic abnormality implicated in thalassemia. As well as causing blood disorders and severe mental retardation, boys with ATRX mutations have genital abnormalities.
Neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it'
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women are not from Venus any more than men are from Mars. But even though both sexes are perfectly terrestrial beings, they are not lacking in other differences. And not only in their reproductive organs ...
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