Nearly twice as many women as men are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The most obvious explanation — the fact that females have longer lifespans — never felt quite satisfying. Maybe, some ...

A new study may challenge what we thought we knew about brain aging. Scientists have discovered that men’s brains shrink faster than women’s as they grow older, even though women are more likely to ...

Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s, despite Alzheimer’s disease being diagnosed more frequently in women, new research shows. More than seven million Americans have Alzheimer’s, and by 2050, that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behavior have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the ...

Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men, and the search for why is ongoing. There’s a thought that the decline could be tied to brain changes that happen in menopause, or the ...

During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do, according to a longitudinal study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...