Mind & Brain / Sex & the Brain

The Brain: Where Does Sex Live in the Brain? From Top to Bottom.

Neuroscientists explore the mind's sexual side and discover that desire is not quite what we thought it was. 09.10.2009

Is It Possible to Systematically Turn Gay People Straight?

A century of treatments have ranged from horrifying to horribly unscientific. 09.09.2009

What Can Strippers Tell Us About Evolution?

Psychologist Geoffrey Miller looks at how sex influenced the development of the human brain. 01.21.2009

Mom and Dad Are Fighting in Your Genes—and in Your Brain

Our brains may contain a battle of the sexes that can cause schizophrenia and autism. 11.10.2008

The Science of Great Sex at 80

Doctors and drug companies are working hard to help seniors get it on like teenagers. 09.15.2008

A Dose of Human Kindness, Now in Chemical Form

Can the hormone oxytocin drive us to be more generous? 04.04.2008

Of Mice As Men

Without a pheromone detector, female mice turn into gender benders. 11.19.2007

The Good, the Bad, and the Tiny

The oddly oxymoronic effects of steroids on the human body 10.18.2007

Girls Gone Boys Gone Wild

Altering a mouse's sense of smell can seriously mess with its gender identity. 09.11.2007

Rip Van Winkle Disease

Adolescents sleep for weeks solid, sometimes bingeing or becoming hypersexual. 08.15.2007

He Thinks, She Thinks

Gender differences show up in the brain. 07.05.2007

The Real Story on Gay Genes

Homing in on the science of homosexuality—and sexuality itself 06.05.2007

Raw Data: Do Brothers Make You Gay?

Boys with older brothers are more likely to be gay. But is it nurture or nature? 09.01.2006

Men Hear Women's Melodies

Men Hear Women's Melodies 11.22.2005

Mind Over Moods

This is your brain on PMS. 10.28.2005

Girls Are Better at Math, But . . .

Values may steer girls away from math careers. 09.01.2003

Do You Love This Face?

If you think that physical appeal is strictly a matter of personal taste and cultural bias, think again. Who you find attractive, say psychobiologists, is largely dictated by evolutionary needs and hardwired into your brain 02.01.2000

Transsexual Brains

01.01.1996

S/He-Brains

06.01.1995

The Sniff of Legend

Human pheromones? Chemical sex attractants? And a sixth sense organ in the nose? What are we, animals? 04.01.1994

Sex and the Brain

In the summer of 1991, neurobiologist Simon Levay published a small study on a minute part of the human brain. Little did he realize it would catapult him from his scientific ivory tower into the heated fray of homosexual politics. 03.01.1994