Higher anxiety, depression among women may have basis in cell signals

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 10:00 in Psychology & Sociology

There may be a biological reason why depression and other stress-related psychiatric disorders are more common among women compared to men. Studying stress signalling systems in animal brains, neuroscience researchers found that females are more sensitive to low levels of an important stress hormone and less able to adapt to high levels than males...

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