Making Sense of Sex in Neuroscience

Birgit Derntl^{1

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3}, Steffen R Hage^{4

5}, Manfred Hallschmid^{2

6

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Women's Mental Health & Brain Function, Tübingen Center for Mental Health, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
² German Center for Mental Health, Tübingen, Germany.
³ Lead Graduate School, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Neurobiology of Social Communication, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁵ Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁷ German Center for Diabetes Research, Tübingen, Germany.
⁸ Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Birgit Derntl et al. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2024.

. 2024 Mar 15;4(2):100292.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100292. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Birgit Derntl^{1

2

3}, Steffen R Hage^{4

5}, Manfred Hallschmid^{2

6

7

8}

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Women's Mental Health & Brain Function, Tübingen Center for Mental Health, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
² German Center for Mental Health, Tübingen, Germany.
³ Lead Graduate School, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Neurobiology of Social Communication, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁵ Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁷ German Center for Diabetes Research, Tübingen, Germany.
⁸ Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

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