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ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012

Sex differences in the brain: the not so inconvenient truth.

Margaret M McCarthy, Arthur P Arnold, Gregory F Ball, Jeffrey D Blaustein, Geert J De Vries

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Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 325 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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325citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

325 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Multilevel sex-influenced neurobiological signatures of early life adversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  14. Dichotomous Regulation of Social Behaviors by Nucleus Accumbens Neurons in Female and Male Syrian Hamsters.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  15. Neuron-specific epigenetic repression ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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265 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Margaret M McCarthyDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. mmccarth@umaryland.edu
Arthur P Arnold
Gregory F Ball
Jeffrey D Blaustein
Geert J De Vries

Funding

Neuroinflammation, Epigenetics and Male VulnerabilityR01MH052716 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MARGARET M. MCCARTHY · 2000 to 2026
$9.6M
STEROID-CATECHOLAMINE INTERACTIONS AND SEX BEHAVIORR01MH050388 · NIMH · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI BALL, GREGORY F · 1993 to 2017
$5.1M
Prostaglandins and Cerebellum DevelopmentR01MH091424 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MCCARTHY, MARGARET M. · 2010 to 2020
$3.8M
The Neural Basis of Sexually Dimorphic Brain FunctionR01MH047538 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI DE VRIES, GEERT J. · 1991 to 2013
$3.2M
Estradiol and Hippocampal DevelopmentR01NS050525 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MCCARTHY, MARGARET M. · 2005 to 2013
$2.9M
Sex differences in obesity and metabolic diseaseR01DK083561 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARNOLD, ARTHUR P, CHEN, XUQI · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK083561NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH047538NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH050388NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH052716NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH091424NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS050525
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Sex CharacteristicsAnimalsBrainClinical Trials as TopicFemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID22396398
PMCPMC3295598

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