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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Prenatal Testosterone"”.
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Prenatal Testosterone, Empathy, Emotion Recognition, and Facial Mimicry in Women
… emotion recognition, and empathy are related to prenatal testosterone (PT) exposure. Previous studies have found relationships among facial mimicry, emotion recognition, and selfreport empathy scores; further, imaging studies suggest that mimicry, emotion recognition, and empathy have shared …
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Appetite Regulatory Neural Circuitry in the Prenatal Testosterone Treated and Obese Ewe
… in ewes at increased risk of obesity following prenatal testosterone (T) treatment, or in diet-induced obese ewes. Using immunocytochemistry, we found that prenatal T-treated ewes showed increased expression of the appetite stimulatory peptide, AgRP, but not the inhibitory peptide, POMC, …
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Relationship Between a Proxy of Prenatal Testosterone (2D:4D) and Determinants of Endurance Running Performance
… left hand (left 2D:4D) have been linked to high prenatal testosterone concentrations. Low R-L 2D:4D (subtracting left 2D:4D from right 2D:4D) has been associated with high androgen sensitivity as indicated by low numbers of cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) triplet repeats on exon-1 of the androgen …
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Effects of prenatal testosterone treatment on growth performance and carcass characteristics of cattle and sheep
… were conducted to determine the effects of prenatal testosterone treatment (P) alone or in combination with postnatal steroid implantation (I) on growth performance, carcass traits, nitrogen balance and endocrine status of cattle and sheep. In Exp. 1, P heifers possessed improved (P $$.10) …
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
<p>The relationship between testosterone and risk aversion is of increasing interest in the experimental economics. Using the ratio of the second digit to the fourth digit (2D:4D) as a rough indicator of level of prenatal testosterone exposure, this study attempts to replicate recent results from …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
… the right hand 20:40 digit ratio (a measure of prenatal testosterone)was significantly related to actual sexual aggression. Overall. there was partial support for rape as an adaptive mechanism. but the studics wcre also consistent with a by-product explanation of rape.