Week 6 Sex and gender effects Flashcards
(10 cards)
when you see this chart about mental disorder incidence between different ages. What do you notice?
boys and girls show opposite effect
girls: lower incidence at younger age and skyrockets at later years
boys: higher incidence rate at younger age but declines at later years
Name at least three sex differences in symptom expression of children with ADHD
name at least three sex differences in symptom expression of children with depression
describe the chihuahua argument
chihuahua has the smallest brain of all dogs, but it is not less smart than most dogs.
Name three reasons why studying sex differences is important
- Men and women can respond differently to medications due to variations in hormones, metabolism, and genetics.
- Sex differences influence cognitive abilities, mental health risks, and neurological disorders such as autism and depression.
- Certain diseases, like cardiovascular conditions and autoimmune disorders, affect men and women differently in terms of prevalence and severity.
females have two X chromosomes instead of XY like males. Why doesn’t this lead to twice as much genetic effect of the X chormosome in females? what could be a consequence?
random X silencing
one of the X chromosomes is randomly silenced. concequence females have more average out expression of certain genes than males–> males have more non average brains–>link with ADHD or ASS, more prevelant?
research shows that higher testosteron correlates with aggression not causes it. Why is there no causal link?
mediated by social status, dominance and/or competiveness
name three challenges in translating animal sex differences to human
- cultural effects are strong in humans and this is very hard to mimic in animal experiments.
- homogeneous strains in animals. humans are heterogeneous
- comorbidity is hard to model.
name at least five statements regarding ADHD in girls
