Allison Parshall
Allison Parshall is an associate news editor at Scientific American who often covers biology, health, technology and physics. She edits the magazine's Contributors column and has previously edited the Advances section. As a multimedia journalist, Parshall contributes to Scientific American's podcast Science Quickly. Her work includes a three-part miniseries on music-making artificial intelligence. Her work has also appeared in Quanta Magazine and Inverse. She graduated from New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute with a master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Georgetown University. Follow Parshall on X (formerly Twitter) @parshallison
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The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
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- Allison Parshall often covers biology, health, technology and physics. She edits the magazine's Contributors column and has previously edited the Advances section.
Conflicts of Interest
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Contradictions
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- Gender seemed to have a broader influence on different brain networks involved in attention, social cognition, emotional processing.
- Sex is largely determined by chromosomes, genes, hormones and other biological systems.
- Sex seemed to influence different regions of the brain involved in visual processing, sensory processing, motor control, and some regions involved in executive function.
- The findings demonstrate the importance of considering the social impact of gender in neuroscience research.
- These nodules act like batteries and generate electric currents large enough to split seawater into oxygen and hydrogen.
Deceptions
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- It's important to understand because gender-related differences in the brain could impact how psychiatric disorders manifest across the gender spectrum.
- The influence of being treated as a woman or as a man in our society is ignored in neuroscience research.
- This means that differences between the brains of people who are assigned male or female at birth are often taken as reflections of biological differences when they could very well be the result of how each group is treated based on cultural expectations.
Recent Articles
Deep-Sea Geobatteries: Uncovering the Mysterious Oxygen Production by Polymetallic Nodules
Broke On: Monday, 22 July 2024Researchers discovered that polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone produce oxygen through seawater electrolysis, challenging our understanding of oxygen production and raising concerns about deep-sea mining's impact on these ecosystems. 
Neuroscientists Discover Distinct Brain Network Patterns for Sex and Gender in Young People
Broke On: Friday, 12 July 2024Neuroscientists Elvisha Dhamala and her team identified distinct brain network patterns associated with sex and gender in young people based on functional brain imaging data from over 4,700 children in the US. Using predictive modeling, they found that sex was linked to visual processing, motor control, sensory processing regions, and some executive functions. Gender was related more broadly to executive function and possibly impacted networks supporting attention and social cognition. The findings could lead to more nuanced approaches in medical contexts for equal treatment based on sex and gender.