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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2022 Nov 1;77:102647. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2022.102647

Fig. 3: Different categories of sex differences.

Fig. 3:

We review examples of sex differences that emerge during adolescence that fall into categories discussed, e.g., in [10]. We define dimorphic sex differences as both the behavioral/physiological output, and its underlying neural mechanism, diverge by sex. Convergent sex differences are when either the same neural mechanism results in divergent outputs (left), or divergent neural mechanisms support a convergent output (right). Quantitative sex differences are when both the neural mechanism and output are the same, but either the mechanism or output is greater in one sex.