#fmri

#fmri

Researchers studying brain-imaging data from people aged between 8 and 100 found that sex differences in the brain's connections are minimal in early life, but then increase drastically at puberty; some of these differences continue to grow throughout adult life. The study was published as a preprint on bioRxiv, and has not yet been peer reviewed. The work could help us to understand why men and women have different likelihoods of developing some mental-health disorders - and perhaps give insight into treating them, say the researchers.

We've taken MRI methods that we've firmly established in the brain, and with a lot of attention to detail and many small improvements, we've made this critical jump to use them in the spinal cord, and I find that pretty exciting,