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Females on average perform better than males on a ‘theory of mind’ test across 57 countries
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Females on average perform better than males on a ‘theory of mind’ test across 57 countries

by University of Cambridge Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others’ shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries. Researchers found that females, on average, score higher than males on the widely used...

Thyroid Screening
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Thyroid Screening

WHAT IS THE THYROID GLAND? Just as the thyroid gland communicates with other organs through the hormone it produces, the pituitary gland in the brain communicates with the thyroid through a hormone it makes—thyroid-stimulating hormone, or TSH. When the pituitary senses that thyroid hormone levels are too low, it releases more TSH to coax the...