“Jumping the shark” with the New England Journal of Medicine (from Livestream #59)

Should we remove sex from birth certificates?

Clip taken from DarkHorse Podcast Livestream #59 (originally streamed live on December 19, 2020):

Q&A:

References:

Ferretti et al. 2018. Sex differences in Alzheimer disease — the gateway to precision medicine. Nature Reviews Neurology 14: 457–469.

Vetvik, K.G. and MacGregor, E.A., 2017. Sex differences in the epidemiology, clinical features, and pathophysiology of migraine. The Lancet Neurology, 16(1): 76-87.

Lynch, W.J., Roth, M.E. and Carroll, M.E., 2002. Biological basis of sex differences in drug abuse: preclinical and clinical studies. Psychopharmacology, 164(2): 121-137.

Szewczyk-Krolikowski, K., Tomlinson, P., Nithi, K., Wade-Martins, R., Talbot, K., Ben-Shlomo, Y. and Hu, M.T., 2014. The influence of age and gender on motor and non-motor features of early Parkinson's disease: initial findings from the Oxford Parkinson Disease Center (OPDC) discovery cohort. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 20(1): 99-105.

See, e.g.: Allen, J.S., Damasio, H., Grabowski, T.J., Bruss, J. and Zhang, W., 2003. Sexual dimorphism and asymmetries in the gray–white composition of the human cerebrum. Neuroimage, 18(4): 880-894.

Ingalhalikar, M., Smith, A., Parker, D., Satterthwaite, T.D., Elliott, M.A., Ruparel, K., Hakonarson, H., Gur, R.E., Gur, R.C. and Verma, R., 2014. Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(2): 823-828.

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