Females react differently than males to social isolation

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 08:01 in Psychology & Sociology

While male and female mice have similar responses to physical stress, research from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, Canada, suggests females, not males, feel stressed when alone. The findings, to be published in the journal eLife, provide further proof that strategies for coping with stress are sex-specific. They also highlight the […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net