A recent study from Stanford Medicine found that males and women have “distinct brain organization patterns”.
The results were released on Tuesday in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”. As per the study’s announcement from Stanford Medicine, some 1,500 brains were scanned using a novel artificial intelligence model. The AI was then given the task of identifying if the brain scan belonged to a man or a woman, and it did so with 90% accuracy.
“A key motivation for this study is that sex plays a crucial role in human brain development, in aging, and in the manifestation of psychiatric and neurological disorders,” The head of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Vinod Menon, PhD,
stated, serving as the director of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
He continued, “Identifying consistent and replicable sex differences in the healthy adult brain is a critical step toward a deeper understanding of sex-specific vulnerabilities in psychiatric and neurological disorders.”
Researchers argue that despite narratives to the contrary, “rapid onset gender dysphoria” is real.
The AI model specifically targeted “hotspots” in the limbic network, which controls emotions, the striatum, which concentrates on responding to rewards, and the default mode network, a brain region that aids in processing self-referential information.
