Publication Alert!

May 2, 2022

“An analysis of neuroscience and psychiatry papers published from 2009 and 2019 outlines opportunities for increasing discovery of sex differences,” has been published in Nature Communications! This exciting manuscript was developed by members of the WHRC and Women’s Health Research Institute. The BC Women’s Health Foundation provided tremendous support and contributed to this work.

In their analysis, researchers found that the number of neuroscience and psychiatry papers including both sexes had increased from 2009 to 2019, but only 5% of studies included sex as a discoverable variable. Click here to access the full article.


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