#  WGS Professor in the Journal of Neuroscience 

 





December 13, 2016

 

 

Professor [Sarah Richardson](/people/sarah-richardson) (WGS/History of Science) has co-authored the article “[Sex in Context: Limitations of Animal Studies for Addressing Human Sex/Gender Neurobehavioral Health Disparities](http://www.jneurosci.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/36/47/11823),” which appeared in the *Journal of Neuroscience* in November. In this piece, Professor Richardson and co-author [Lise Eliot](http://www.liseeliot.com/) (Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, Neuroscience) look at the limitations of the NIH policy requiring analysis of sex in preclinical research with respect to rodent studies in neurobehavioral science -- in areas such as pain, depression, and stress research. They argue that sex is not, a priori, more profoundly relevant to biological outcomes than other genetic and environmental sources of variance, which include animal age, strain, diet, housing, social grouping, prenatal experience, experimenter handling, and much more.



 

 

 



 

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