Gender Medicine focuses on the impact of the gender on human physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical features of diseases.
The concept of Gender refers to a complex interrelation and integration of sex – as a biological and functional marker of the human body – and psychological and cultural behaviour (due to ethnical, social, and religious background).
The attention to the impact of the gender differences on the pathophysiology and, therefore, on the management of the most common social diseases – such as cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, joints and rheumatic diseases, some tumors, to list a few – is both needed and lacking. In response to this challenge the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation is assisting in the establishment of the European Society of Gender Health and Medicine.

This website is intended as a tool for the general practitioner and specialist interested in gender health and medicine. The site is also directed to those professionals working in the fields of communication, media, health policy, and health economics, and it is based on the premise that individuals have both an interest in and a responsibility for their own health care.

Among its aims, the website wants to open a debate to create a stimulating discussion and exchange of opinions on the many emerging hot topics in gender medicine.

NEWS

• GENDER DIFFERENCES AFTER NORMAL SLEEP AND AFTER SLEEP DEPRIVATION
• GRAY MATTER, BODY MASS INDEX, WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE AND GENDER
• BRAIN SEX DIFFERENCE DURING A SPATIAL NAVIGATION TASK
• GENDER AND CADASIL.
• GENDER DIFFERENCES AND WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY
• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN NETWORKS.
• Female patients in fertile age with chronic hepatitis C, easy genotype, and persistently normal transaminases have a 100% chance to reach a sustained virological response
• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN APOLIPOPROTEIN D.
• GENDER RELATED DIFFERENCES IN NORMAL BRAIN
• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NORMAL BRAIN NETWORKS
• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ATROPHY PATTERNS AMONG AD AND AMCI PATIENTS.
• FOCUS ON SCIENCE February 2011
• NIGHTMARES AND GENDER DIFFERENCES
• SEX AND RESTING BRAIN ACTIVITY
• BRAIN SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE THALAMUS, CORPUS CALLOSUM AND CINGULUM
• THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON CORTICAL NETWORKS
• THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON BRAIN VISCOELASTICITY. THE IMPACT OF AGING AND GENDER ON BRAIN VISCOELASTICITY.
• DISEASE, INEQUALITIES, AND VIOLENCE
• GENDER DIFFERENCES AND ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY
• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE IN INDIVIDUALS WITH ATHEROSCLEROSIS: IMPACT OF VASCULAR FUNCTION

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