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Sex-related variation in human behavior and the brainMelissa Hines
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB23RQ, UK
Trends Cogn Sci 14:448-56. 2010....
Gender development and the human brainMelissa Hines
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ, United Kingdom
Annu Rev Neurosci 34:69-88. 2011..Although the neural mechanisms underlying experiential influences remain largely uninvestigated, they could involve the same neural circuitry as that affected by hormones...- Prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation and on sexually differentiated childhood behaviorMelissa Hines
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Front Neuroendocrinol 32:170-82. 2011..Although a role for hormones during early development has been established, it also appears that there may be multiple pathways to a given sexual orientation outcome and some of these pathways may not involve hormones... - Early androgen influences on human neural and behavioural developmentMelissa Hines
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ, UK
Early Hum Dev 84:805-7. 2008..Other emerging research areas include the role of neonatal hormones in infant development and interactions between hormone-induced predispositions and postnatal experience in producing behavioural outcomes... - Continuity in sex-typed behavior from preschool to adolescence: a longitudinal population study of boys and girls aged 3-13 yearsSusan Golombok
Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Arch Sex Behav 41:591-7. 2012..It was concluded that the degree of sex-typed behavior shown by preschool children is a good indicator of their degree of sex-typed behavior following the transition to adolescence... - Prenatal hormones and childhood sex segregation: playmate and play style preferences in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasiaVickie Pasterski
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Horm Behav 59:549-55. 2011.... - Infants' preferences for toys, colors, and shapes: sex differences and similaritiesVasanti Jadva
Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Arch Sex Behav 39:1261-73. 2010..Similarly, the sex similarities in infants' preferences for colors and shapes suggest that any subsequent sex differences in these preferences may arise from socialization or cognitive gender development rather than inborn factors... - Increased aggression and activity level in 3- to 11-year-old girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)Vickie Pasterski
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ, UK
Horm Behav 52:368-74. 2007..These data suggest that early androgens have a masculinizing effect on both aggressive behavior and activity level in girls... - Sex hormones and human destinyMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology Social and Developmental, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
J Neuroendocrinol 21:437-8. 2009.... - Developmental trajectories of sex-typed behavior in boys and girls: a longitudinal general population study of children aged 2.5-8 yearsSusan Golombok
Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Child Dev 79:1583-93. 2008..5 were still the most sex typed at age 5, with those children who showed the highest levels of sex-typed behavior during the preschool years continuing to do so at age 8... - Fetal testosterone predicts sexually differentiated childhood behavior in girls and in boysBonnie Auyeung
Department of Psychiatry, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Psychol Sci 20:144-8. 2009.... 
Prenatal testosterone and gender-related behaviourMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Eur J Endocrinol 155:S115-21. 2006....- Androgens and autistic traits: A study of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasiaRebecca Knickmeyer
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Horm Behav 50:148-53. 2006..These results suggest that prenatal exposure to high levels of testosterone influences some autistic traits and that hormonal factors may be involved in vulnerability to autism... - Androgen and psychosexual development: core gender identity, sexual orientation and recalled childhood gender role behavior in women and men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)Melissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK
J Sex Res 41:75-81. 2004.... - Masculinized finger length patterns in human males and females with congenital adrenal hyperplasiaWindy M Brown
Department of Psychology, City University, London, United Kingdom
Horm Behav 42:380-6. 2002..Finger lengths may therefore offer a retrospective marker of perinatal androgen exposure in humans... - Androgenic influences on neural asymmetry: Handedness and language lateralization in individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasiaGreta A Mathews
City University, London, EC1V 0HB, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:810-22. 2004..However, given that sex differences in both language lateralization and handedness are small, it is possible that limited sample size precludes the detection of consistent group differences... - Comparable fMRI activity with differential behavioural performance on mental rotation and overt verbal fluency tasks in healthy men and womenRozmin Halari
Centre for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, P O Box 46, London SE5 8AF, UK
Exp Brain Res 169:1-14. 2006..Our results demonstrate comparable brain activation in men and women in association with mental rotation and verbal fluency function with differential performance, and provide support for sex differences in brain-behaviour relationships... - Cognitive and behavioral characteristics of turner syndrome: exploring a role for ovarian hormones in female sexual differentiationMarcia L Collaer
University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Horm Behav 41:139-55. 2002..These results are consistent with a role for ovarian hormones acting on the brain to influence cognitive and behavioral development, although they do not rule out other possible interpretations... - Prenatal stress and gender role behavior in girls and boys: a longitudinal, population studyMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, London, United Kingdom
Horm Behav 42:126-34. 2002..Our results suggest that prenatal stress does not influence the development of gender role behavior in boys and appears to have relatively little, if any, influence on gender role behavior in girls... - Testosterone during pregnancy and gender role behavior of preschool children: a longitudinal, population studyMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, London, UK
Child Dev 73:1678-87. 2002..Although other, unmeasured factors may explain the relation, the results suggest that normal variability in T levels prenatally may contribute to the development of individual differences in the gender role behavior of preschool girls... - Psychological outcomes and gender-related development in complete androgen insensitivity syndromeMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, London, England, United Kingdom
Arch Sex Behav 32:93-101. 2003..They also suggest that psychological outcomes in women with CAIS are similar to those in other women. However, additional attention to more detailed aspects of psychological well-being in CAIS is needed... - Sex steroids and human behavior: prenatal androgen exposure and sex-typical play behavior in childrenMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1007:272-82. 2003..These findings suggest that androgen during early development influences childhood play behavior in humans at least in part by altering brain development... - Psychosexual development in individuals who have female pseudohermaphroditismMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 13:641-56, ix. 2004..Implications for current debate about the treatment of infants who have ambiguous genitalia are discussed, as is the need for additional research and for consideration of psychologic counseling as part of the treatment program... - Monkeys, girls, boys and toys: a confirmation Letter regarding "Sex differences in toy preferences: striking parallels between monkeys and humans"Melissa Hines
Horm Behav 54:478-9; author reply 480-1. 2008 - Prenatal hormones and postnatal socialization by parents as determinants of male-typical toy play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasiaVickie L Pasterski
City University, London, UK
Child Dev 76:264-78. 2005..Although parents encourage sex-appropriate behavior, their encouragement appears to be insufficient to override the interest of girls with CAH in cross-sexed toys... - Genetic and environmental influences on sex-typed behavior during the preschool yearsAlessandra C Iervolino
Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Inistitute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Child Dev 76:826-40. 2005..The inclusion of non-twin siblings showed that some of the shared environmental influence is specific to twins... - The ultimate challenge of cloacal exstrophyJustine M Schober
Department of Psychology, City University, London, United Kingdom
J Urol 167:300-4. 2002..A desperate need exists for research focusing on gender development and quality of life. Until that time, a cautious watchful approach may be most appropriate as our patients with cloacal exstrophy mature into adulthood...
Research Grants
- Hormonal Influences on Neural/Behavioral DevelopmentMelissa Hines; Fiscal Year: 2009..Finally, the research will further basic scientific understanding of the roles of hormones and social/cognitive processes in childrens acquisition of gender role behavior. ..