A brief historic overview of sexual and gender diversity in neuroscience: past, present, and future

Jhon Alexander Moreno; Riccardo Manca; Lucas Albrechet-Souza; Juan A Nel; Ioannis Spantidakis; Zindi Venter; Robert-Paul Juster

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2024.1414396

A brief historic overview of sexual and gender diversity in neuroscience: past, present, and future

Front Hum Neurosci. 2024 Sep 13:18:1414396. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1414396. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Jhon Alexander Moreno^{1

2

3}, Riccardo Manca^{4

5}, Lucas Albrechet-Souza⁶, Juan A Nel⁷, Ioannis Spantidakis⁸, Zindi Venter⁷, Robert-Paul Juster⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Notre-Dame Hospital, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL), Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
⁶ Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.
⁷ Department of Psychology, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁸ Department of Psychology, Scientific College of Greece, Athens, Greece.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: LGBTQIA+; LGBTQIA+ history; SOGI; key developments; literature review; neuroscience; research trends; sexual and gender diversity.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. JAM's laboratory (Innovation, Technology, and Cognition - INTECOG) receives financial assistance provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (DH-2024-00194) and Gouvernement du Québec (Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie) in Quebec, Canada (2023-2028-PSOv2a-UDEM-IS-68102). JAM also receives financial support from the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec. JAM is supported by an AGE-WELL-EPIC-AT Fellowship (EPIC-AT-2024-F24) and the Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur le Vieillissement (RQRV), a Research Network financed by Fonds de recherche du Québec (EPIC-AT-2024-F24). RM is supported by an Alzheimer's Association Grant (AARF-22-919481).