Welcome to the OSSD! The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) is a scientific membership organization that seeks to enhance knowledge of sex/gender differences by facilitating interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among scientists and clinicians of diverse backgrounds.
Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases, which are diseases that occur only in people of one sex; and sex-related diseases, which are diseases that are more usual to one sex, or which manifest differently in each sex.
It’s an elemental fact that people increasingly don’t want to hear: Sex differences in personality and behavior are real. And they have a profound effect on …
Why women and men act differently has been a topic of debate for eons. Here’s the latest understanding on sex differences in cognition.
Objective. The relationship between sex/gender differences and autism has attracted a variety of research ranging from clinical and neurobiological to etiological, stimulated by the male bias in autism prevalence.
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs. The condition occurs in many s and some plants.
Similarly to other addictive drugs, fewer females than males use marijuana (SAMHSA, 2014).For females who do use marijuana, however, the …
The Smell Report Sex-differences. On standard tests of smelling ability – including odour detection, discrimination and identification – women …
Gender differences make women better metabolically suited for almost everything related to health and performance.
This paper compares the perspectives of evolutionary psychology and social structural theory on sex differences in jealousy, mate preferences, and aggression.