Welcome/Introductions by NIMH Director, Thomas Insel, MD

Charge of the workshop by meeting chairs:
Janine Simmons, MD, PhD and Stacia Friedman-Hill, PhD

Theme 1: Cognition

Introduction by Catherine S. Woolley, PhD

Speakers:

• Elizabeth R. Sowell, PhD: Imaging sex differences in pubertal influences on the developing human brain
• Adele Diamond, PhD: Possible neural bases of gender differences in higher cognitive functions
• Adrianna Mendrek, PhD: Sex differences in brain functions associated with cognitive processing in schizophrenia
• Larry Cahill, PhD: Sex influences on emotional memory: the burden of proof has shifted
• Tracey J. Shors, PhD: Sex differences in learning: evidence that males and females can engage different brain circuits

Discussion, moderated by Catherine S. Woolley, PhD

Theme 2: Affect

Introduction by Jill M. Goldstein, PhD and Stuart Tobet, PhD

Speakers:

• Daniel Tranel, PhD: Sex-related differences in large-scale neural systems underlying affect and decision-making
• Mohammed R. Milad, PhD: Influence of estrogen on the neurobiology of fear extinction in female rats and women
• Tracy L. Bale, PhD: Sex differences in prenatal stress: Impact on offspring neurodevelopment and stress responsivity
• Debbie Bangasser, PhD: Sex differences in stress response systems: From molecules to mental illness
• Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD: Keeping the baby with the bath water: What the study of reproduction can teach us about sex differences in mental health

Discussion, moderated by Jill M. Goldstein, PhD and Stuart Tobet, PhD

Theme 3: Social Behavior

Introduction by Arthur P. Arnold, PhD

Speakers:

• Jay Giedd, MD: Female/male differences in anatomic brain MRI developmental trajectories
• Cheryl L. Sisk, PhD: Pubertal hormones and the adolescent brain: Further sexual differentiation of brain and behavior
• Anthony P. Auger, PhD: Epigenetic organization of juvenile behavior: Does sexual differentiation of the brain mediate risk/resilience for atypical social development?
• Lauren Weiss, PhD: Gene-sex interaction in complex human traits
• Catherine Dulac, PhD: Sex-specific parent-of-origin allelic expression in the brain

Discussion, moderated by Arthur P. Arnold, PhD

Workshop synthesis and Action Planning