Sex and gender bias in the experimental neurosciences: the case of the maternal immune activation model.

ABSTRACT: Recent and rapidly developing movements relating to the increasing awareness and reports of gender bias, discrimination, and abuse have reached the academic environments. The consideration that negative attitudes toward women and abuse of power creates a hostile environment for female scientists, facilitating sexual harassment and driving women out of science, can be easily related to. Rationally inaccessible gender biases are not only evident at the level of the researchers, but are also paralleled by a corresponding imbalance at the level of the research subjects. Here, we focus on the maternal immune activation (MIA) animal model to illustrate exemplarily the current state of ex-/inclusion of female research subjects and the consideration of sex as biological variable in the basic neuro

SUBMITTER: Coiro P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6375995 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature