Tempests and tales: challenges to the study of sex differences in the brain

We here review two recent popular press books which challenge the notion that there are biological sex differences in the brain, Rebecca J. Jordan-Young's "Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences" (2010 Harvard University Press) and Cordelia Fine's "Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create a Difference" (2010 W.W. Norton Company, New York). While there is much of merit in each, both resort to hyperbole and superficiality, with numerous inaccurate representations of the current state of the art.

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