Are women better mindreaders? Sex differences in neural correlates of mentalizing detected with functional MRI

Sören Krach1, Isabelle Blümel2, Dominic Marjoram3, Tineke Lataster4, Lydia Krabbendam4, Jochen Weber5, Jim van Os4, Tilo Kircher1
1Department of Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
2Department of Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
3Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
4Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
5Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York City, USA

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