Over several years, research data have started pouring in on topics ranging from heart disease and cancer to osteoporosis and depression. As it turns out, the various forms of estrogen in body and brain do everything but fetch the morning paper, and influence things like attention, memory, intellectual capacity, mood, appetite and even gum disease. Following are highlights of some of the research, and resources for more information. A task that required subjects to detect changes in an array of object locations unexpectedly favored women, challenging the traditional view that men do better than women on all spatial tasks. Behavior and cognitive function change with variations in sex hormones.
Men also show hormone-related variations in cognitive function.
In Europe and North America men have higher testosterone levels in autumn than in spring. Because spatial ability is usually better in men with lower testosterone levels, Kimura predicted correctly that men would be better at spatial tasks in spring than in autumn. This changed firing rates higher in the brain. Hormones could affect the speed and quality of human thinking, motion and speech. Estrogen and Appetite Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa and binge eating are regular killers of women in particular, but researchers don't know much about their cause or why women are so vulnerable.