Stanford study confirms men and women's brains function differently: 'Sex plays a crucial role'

Men and women have "distinct brain organization patterns" according to a new Stanford Medicine study. The findings were published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" journal on Tuesday. According to Stanford Medicine's statement on the study, it was conducted utilizing a new artificial intelligence model to scan around 1,500 brains. The AI was then instructed to determine whether the brain scan came from a man or a woman, predicting correctly with a 90% accuracy rate. "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," Vinod Menon, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, said.