Figure 4. Stress Response Circuitry in the Brain is Highly Sexually Dimorphic.

Brain regions implicated in the stress response circuitry are some of the most highly sexually dimorphic brain regions in the brain (e.g., hypothalamic nuclei, central medial amygdala, hippocampus, mPFC, ACC). Figure 3 highlights the brain regions in MR images and shows which regions are larger in volume (cm³) in the female brain (in red), relative to cerebrum size, and which are larger in the male brain, relative to cerebrum size (in blue). (Adapted from Goldstein, et al., 2001, Cerebral Cortex)