Natalie L. Dinsdale

Two recent genomic studies have demonstrated that lower genetically-predicted testosterone is associated with higher risk of endometriosis. These results are concordant with a suite of additional findings, including: (1) links of endometrio…

Objective: Investigate how women with self-reported endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), or no known reproductive disease perform on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task, a metric of social cognitive empathic abilities, and how…

Evolutionary and comparative approaches can yield novel insights into human adaptation and disease. Endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) each affect up to 10% of women and significantly reduce the health, fertility, and qualit…

Abstract We provide the first analysis and synthesis of the evolutionary and mechanistic bases for risk of endometriosis in humans, structured around Niko Tinbergen's four questions about phenotypes: phylogenetic history, development, mecha…

Hippocrates attributed women's high emotionality - hysteria - to a 'wandering womb'. Although hysteria diagnoses were abandoned along with the notion that displaced wombs cause emotional disturbance, recent research suggests that elevated l…