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Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.
Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom they’ll love. Brizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why
• A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened
• A teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phone
• Thoughts about sex enter a woman’s brain once every couple of days but enter a man’s brain about once every minute
• A woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can’t spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm
• A woman over 50 is more likely to initiate divorce than a man
Women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.
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A must to read for every man.......2007-10-02
More than reading The Female Brain i also listened to it after buying it from audiobook.
My advise is that this book is a must read for every man.
The book is very will written and the author Dr. Louann Brizendine did all of us a favour by going very deep in the Female Brain.
I can not wait to see Dr. Louann Brizendine write about the Male Brain,I am sure that it will be another best seller.
Bravo Dr.Brizendine.
Ibrahim Al Mugaiteeb
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the female brain.......2007-10-01
The Female Brain is a great book to read for any parent and coach who is interested to find out about the needs and wants of a woman of different age groups. It is especially good read for the coaches who train women (most of them are men) to understand what drives the women to performance and how to fuel this drive. A must read book!
Not at all pleased.......2007-09-21
I began reading the first chapter of the book and I found my self slamming the book down and walking out of the room in an aggressive and angry mood. The first chapter pretty much sums up how she will approach the rest of the book. The largest issue I had is that she does not take into consideration environmental or social factors. Rather, she believes that we are fated by our chemistry. I am a prospective graduate student in philosophy who has done work on intelligibility and epistemology based on our physical and physiological bodies. I specifically used Anne Fausto-Sterling in my work (she's a biologist). She argues that our biology is not just something that happens, but rather our environment has the potential to affect our biology. For instance, today the words in this book caused me to have an angry reaction. I became aggressive and more alert than I was before. The thoughts that occurred in my head triggered a physiological response. Thus, my interpretation of something external caused me to react physiologically. She doesn't address (or at least this is what I gathered from the first chapter) that something externally can cause our hormones to shift. I could ramble on and on , but this is primarily what concerns me.
Scientific Truth vs. Political Correctness.......2007-09-19
Dr. Brizendine admits, "In writing this book I have struggled with two voices in my head - one is the scientific truth, the other is political correctness. I have chosen to emphasize scientific truth over political correctness even though scientific truths may not always be welcome." It is rare that anyone who is in favor of political correctness openly admits that it conflicts with scientific truth. It is also interesting that she says she has "chosen" scientific truth; this statement implies that it was a choice she had to consider.
At no point in the book does Dr. Brizendine draw politically incorrect conclusions from the scientific data, even when they seem inevitable. She verifies at length that the moodiness and changeability men notice in women is not only real, but neurochemically based. She tap-dances around the inevitable mention of Lawrence Summers' being forced to resign from the presidency of Harvard for mentioning that men more frequently show scientific ability than women do by explaining that it isn't that women can't do math and science, it's just that those things require working alone, and women's hormones make working on their own without constant feedback and guidance from others intolerable for them. (Personally, I'm a woman and a loner, and the idea of working with other people makes me want to jump off a building.) Also, in discussing how women choose men who will be good providers as mates, she says, "Though single motherhood has become fashionable among some sets of modern women, it remains to be seen how well this model will succeed." This is disingenuous; a few minutes of research would have shown her that it has already been seen how well this model will succeed, and that is not very well at all. Children with absent fathers have a far higher incidence of delinquency, behavioral problems, mood disorders, and academic trouble.
Another example comes in the discussion of mothers of infants. Dr. Brizendine reveals that the feelings of withdrawal new mothers feel when they are separated from their babies are hormonally based, and admits that when she herself went back to work when her son was only five months old, she "was a wreck on most days". That is, not only are working mothers of infants not being very good mothers, they're also not being very good workers. Naturally she doesn't suggest that maybe, just maybe mothers should at least wait until their children are past babyhood before skipping back to the office, not even when she goes on to detail the deleterious physical effect on the "trust and security circuits" in the brains of children whose mothers are inattentive, an effect that lasts for a lifetime, nor when she details the behavioral troubles exhibited by the children of mothers who work full-time. Instead, she tries to claim that having someone else take care of your children is okay because female monkeys sometimes leave their babies with other monkeys. What she glosses over is that these other monkeys are the babies' aunts or grandmothers - relatives with a genetic motivation to take good care of the babies. So yes, if there's a grandmother or aunt or other close relative to babysit your baby while you work, that will work well. But many of us don't live that near relatives who are willing to babysit, and dumping your toddlers off at daycare to be raised by strangers making minimum wage isn't remotely the same thing.
However, for Dr. Brizendine, simply admitting that the differences between men and women are biologically based and not social constructs was probably going frighteningly far, and for that, she deserves credit.
The book verifies that boys are not only larger, but also more aggressive, more disruptive, and less mentally mature than girls of the same age, but doesn't follow through to the obvious politically incorrect conclusion that maybe co-education isn't such a great idea. Hey, why not lock up a bunch of helpless little girls with unsocialized children who are larger, stronger, more aggressive, less mature and less self-controlled than they are? Even when she explains that teenage girls spend hours in the bathroom together because "It's the only private place at school we can go to *talk*!", the author does not seem to notice that she is building a case against co-education.
One of the most intriguing passages in this book was when the author explained that the proverbial "fight or flight" response is actually the male response to danger; females, prevented by their smaller size or by the need to protect their young from fighting or flying, are more apt to respond with "tend or befriend". She cites the example of a teenage girl she knew, Elana, whose best friend started insulting another girl who Elana had once been friends with. Even though Elana didn't like this behavior, she meekly let it pass without a word of protest because she was too frightened of losing the friendship. According to Dr. Brizendine, a great deal of female behavior is motivated by this fear of loss of a relationship. This doesn't speak well for women's ability to stand up for their friends or fight for a principle in the face of opposition, but, well, that's why we have men.
For the most part, the science in this book is pretty solid, but there are a couple of areas where Dr. Brizendine accepted common wisdom rather than examining it. For example, there is a chapter detailing the hormonal changes that allegedly explain turbulent adolescent behavior, an idea that has gained widespread acceptance in the media and in water-cooler conversations. The problem is, the entire concept of adolescence, as well as the notion that this is a time of inevitable stormy emotion and behavior, didn't exist until the 20th century and is peculiar to the industrialized West. The turbulence is caused by the artificial prolonging of childhood into the years when humans should be working and starting a family, not by hormones. Try expecting someone in his or her thirties to follow rules made for children and see if the result isn't some storminess.
Another problem area was when Dr. Brizendine tried to prove that men are virtually incapable of noticing changes in other peoples' expression. According to her, their brains just don't register it, whereas women's do, and this is where we get the idea of women's intuition. Unfortunately for her, I just read a book (Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel) that thoroughly debunks the idea of women's superior intuition. In fact, men are just as adept as reading people's faces as women. Which didn't surprise me; if men were really as inept at this as Dr. Brizendine claimed, novels written by men would be devoid of mention of characters' expressions, and no male spy would last for more than a day before getting himself killed.
There is a regrettably short appendix about sexual orientation, which verifies the common belief that Lesbians are more likely to display masculine characteristics than straight women. According to the book, prenatal exposure to testosterone is one of the causes of both homosexuality and unconventional gender behavior in women.
The blurb claims that men who read this book will "develop a serious case of brain envy". I doubt that; I'm a woman, and this book made me devoutly wish I could get a retroactive sex change operation.
The Female Brain.......2007-09-16
I found this book very enlightening, well written, sometimes a little technical but on the whole a very interesting insight into the female brain
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We all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a chat? Why do women love talking about relationships and feelings with their girlfriends while men seem drawn to computer games, new gadgets, or the latest sports scores? Does it really all just come down to our upbringing? In The Essential Difference, leading psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen confirms what most of us had suspected all along: that male and female brains are different. This groundbreaking and controversial study reveals the scientific evidence (present even in one-day-old babies) that proves that female-type brains are better at empathizing and communicating, while male brains are stronger at understanding and building systems-not just computers and machinery, but abstract systems such as politics and music. Most revolutionary of all, The Essential Difference also puts forward the compelling new theory that autism (and its close relative, Asperger's Syndrome) is actually an example of the extreme male brain. His theory can explain why those who live with this condition are brilliant at analyzing the most complex systems yet cannot relate to the emotional lives of those with whom they live. Understanding our essential difference, Baron-Cohen concludes, may help us not only make sense of our partners' foibles, but also solve one of the most mysterious scientific riddles of our time.
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Just don't forget that we're individuals too.......2007-07-17
There was a time not so long ago that autism in a child was blamed on the mother. That we now understand autism, and Asperger Syndrome, to be genetic is an important step in the right direction. That autism and AS do affect males more than females and the characteristics do correspond to what we recognize as male rather than female characteristics suggests that Baron-Cohen's theory needs to be taken seriously.
Most people today seem to be agreeing that there are innate sex differences. These may even be quite small but are exaggerated by the feedback from the environment. Baron-Cohen presents evidence that is being presented in many other books today regarding the differences in the brains and behaviors of the sexes together with evolutionary reasons for these differences. On the one hand the argument is convincing and probably fits with what most of us actually experience. On the other hand there is still so much more that needs to be explained such as why is there such a large overlap between the sexes and why do a significant number of people have a brain that is of the other sex, so to speak? Also, though boys and girls normally learn boy and girl behavior too, ie are modified by the environment, it seems that those with autism and AS are less able to be affected by learning. Or maybe the rest of us are less influenced by the environment than we think?
The tests at the end of the book are interesting to do. Having personally scored very high on systemizing I am relieved to also have scored average for a female on empathizing. As a female with a male-type brain I naturally think it is essential to keep emphasizing individuality in all this. Overall I agree with Baron-Cohen's theory, partly because it fits with my own general experience of people and my own direct, if limited, experience of people with AS.
This book is an interesting addition to the debate on sex differences and has the potential to help in increasing our understanding of the causes of autism and AS. Just keep remembering our individuality too.
Heavily biased and inconsequent.......2007-05-23
This is not just another "women are good, men are evil" book. Yes, Mr. Baron-Cohen's anti-male bias is most disturbing, but the major flaw of this book is something else.
You see, Mr. Baron-Cohen is one of those researchers who believe that they have found a simple explanation for a very complex issue. Now, I love simple solutions, but only if they succeed in explaining the reality without contradictions, or with fewer contradictions than previous theories. Unfortunately, more often than not, simple explanations turn out to be Procrustean beds.
So is Mr. Baron-Cohen's theory that lack of empathy is the root of all evil in the world. His attempts to force the reality into that Procrustean bed fail strikingly. Facts that contradict Mr. Baron-Cohen's theory are simply ignored by him. Among them are some facts presented by himself in this very book.
To keep this review short, I'll give you just one example. Possibly the most ridiculous of Mr. Baron-Cohen's far-fetched ideas is his belief that men use violence against other people because they are incapable of realising that the other person feels bad when beaten, raped, killed or such. Not only is this idea mind-blowingly absurd - it doesn't seem to bother Mr. Baron-Cohen that it's in contradiction to some facts about which he writes just a couple of pages earlier.
I hope this gives you an idea what this book's like. It won't give you any new insight into gender differences. You are much more likely to get a distorted picture of reality. The book does contain bits of truthful information, but they are mostly common knowledge or can be found in numerous other, much better books.
Hyper-male & hyper-female, then the rest of us.......2006-12-26
By now everybody knows sex is in the brain. But how much of how the brain was laid out by our genes and experiences determines if we have enough of a male type brain to cause us to show the pathologic symptoms of autism?
Baron-Cohen thinks the evidence shows that the spectrum to the extreme male type of brain is to be found more in autistic people than would be found by chance.
You may enjoy reading this well written book by an authority in the field and may form your own opinion of where you are on the continuum.
Not everyone will like book, but it's interesting if you're open to these ideas.......2006-11-16
A book like this is bound to be controversial in today's society, where the topic of gender differences is a hot button issue. I think it's important to note that Simon Baron-Cohen does not make statements about how any specific individual might operate, he simply talks averages (although it would have been nice if he'd stuck to 'Systemizer' rather than 'Male Brain'...one reviewer said she felt as if she were being labeled with a cross-gender disorder, not his intent at all I'm sure!). He does not make judgements about one set of abilities being 'better' or more useful. Neither does he go to extremes and say that a Systemizer cannot feel empathy, (or that they do not have feelings themselves), only that the interwoven, subtle network of social/empathy based cues is relatively more difficult for a Systemizer to navigate while concrete systems may be easier.
The overall premise of the book was interesting, and easier to read than the MindBlindness book by the same author. There seem to be some promising lines of inquiry here, some interesting theories, although at this point it's probably too early to call them anything but that - theories. And yes, there is the potential for environmental factors to affect gender studies in adults, as Baron Cohen himself admits. I was interested to read, however, that he recently completed a study with one-day-old infants where girls looked at a human face for longer, boys at a mechanical mobile. Environment does influence people, no doubt about it, but I think his most recent studies with newborns do point to some inborn differences.
A few points I would have liked discussed more: One, how do non- 'systemizer' related symptoms (sensory processing problems, high anxiety, auditory processing problems, self injurious behaviors) play into this theory? Two, the role of verbal logic in what Baron-Cohen refers to as the 'female' mind (the bare bones 'Systemizer/Empathizer' roles make it sound as if males are all engineering and females are all empathy, when in fact Baron-Cohen talks about females scoring higher on verbal aptitude tests - why are verbal reasoning skills lumped under 'empathy'?). Three, if autism is an extreme male brain, is there an extreme female brain?
The Gender Neutral Society.......2006-04-15
As I immerse myself in the field of evolutionary psychology/biology and Baron-Cohen's work on biobehavioral differences in men and women, I wonder when and where a value judgement got placed on his proposal of men "systematizing" being better or worse than a female tendancy to "empathize"? Don't we need both types to complete each other?
There wasn't one claim in this book (that I could find) that the author's conclusions are attached to a value judgement, nor does he claim EVERY woman is an "E" and EVERY men an "S". Other evidence supports him: studies of women with higher testosterone levels show they act in more aggressive and traditionally "masculine" systematizing ways, while Shelley Taylor's pivotal study on oxytocin, a female hormone, proved a connection to nurturing behaviors. But how is that somehow "bad"?
This doesn't mean (nor do I think Baron-Cohen claims) that we need rigid rules prohibiting or allowing certain opportunities and behaviors for men and women. It does help us to understand and learn from each other--and perhaps have better relationships. As I discussed this book the other day with a colleague that "light bulb" moment occurred, and she realized why her significant other was so much more driven to compartmentalize than she was--it's how he's hardwired, for the most part. It's been documented that women tend to pick friends for relationships, not as basketball or golf buddies, as their husbands mind. In retail, women apologize, men replace or resolve. Don't we need both approaches?
Let's not consider this book a canon for behavior, but use it for the valuable and insightful observations that can help us cast aside judgements about superiority of either gender and accept each other for our strengths--and weaknesses.
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Ironically, the organ with the greatest reason to differ between the sexes, the brain, is often viewed as the most androgynous of all. Are there differences? Almost by convention, male animals are used in laboratory experiments in neuroscience. Even in clinical drug trials in humans, females are often excluded from the early phases of testing because of the risk of pregnancy and because females tend to be inconsistent in their responses due to the influence of their hormones and the menstrual cycle. The flaw in this reasoning is enormous: These very results are often applied to females. In The Female Brain, Cynthia Darlington examines the evidence for structural and functional differences between the male and female brain in an accessible, straightforward manner, while providing substantial scientific material for the academic reader.
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A new light on existing evidence.......2003-01-07
This book explores the evidence of structural and functional differences between the male and female brain. The author examines in great detail the evidence from both recent and historic research supporting these differences, and provides many case studies. It is well illustrated, and provides a comprehensive list of references, as well as suggested reading. A background in neurophysiology would be beneficial to the reader, but not required, as the second chapter provides a good introduction to many of the terms and concepts used throughout the book. (I do not have any background in biological science myself but was able to comprehend it using only the material supplied.) The author also provides recommendations for overcoming the biases of the scientific community, both in the research and treatment of many diseases and disorders.
This book is not for the light reader, but should be comprehensible by most, and is well worth the effort.
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At the time of inception, all brains are feminine they become masculine after eight weeks. Medical doctor and neuro-psychiatrist Louann Brizendine compiles the latest findings to show that the peculiar structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate and whom they love. An illuminating report of the biological foundations of human behavior, it is destined to become a classical in the field of the human race.
Description In Spanish: Todo cerebro empieza como cerebro femenino. Sólo se vuelve masculino ocho semanas después de la concepción. La doctora en Medicina y neuropsiquiatra Louann Brizendine recopila los últimos hallazgos de la ciencia para mostrar que la estructura peculiar del cerebro femenino determina cómo piensan las mujeres, qué es lo que valoran, cómo se comunican y a quién aman. Es ésta una esclarecedora reseña de los fundamentos biológicos de la conducta humana destinada a convertir-se en un clásico en el campo de los estudios de género.
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It is well known that estrogen is "somehow” a protective hormone for various age-related disorders. This book provides a solid knowledge of estrogen’s neuroprotective activities in the brain with a special emphasis on neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease. The focus is (1) to describe the biochemical, molecular, and cellular basis of the protective activity of estrogen and (2) to transfer this knowledge into the hospitals by discussing preventive and therapeutic approaches such as estrogen replacement therapy for post-menopausal women. Besides up-to-date information on estrogen and the brain, this book explains in a highly understandable manner molecular and cellular techniques by which basic data have been collected. The reader, which may include the professional specialist as well as the interested non-specialist, will also gain insight into the scientific transfer process of knowledge from basic science to the clinical situation and therefore "from bench to bed”.
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Surgical Anatomy a Treatise on Human Anatomy in Its Application to the Practice of Medicine and Surgery Volume II - Neck, Mouth, Pharynx, Larynx, Nose, Orbit, Eyeball, Organ of Hearing, Brain, Male Perineum, Female Perineum
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We previously found that both male and female aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice, which cannot synthesize estrogens due to a targeted mutation of the aromatase gene, showed less investigation of volatile body odors from anesthetized conspecifics of both sexes in Y-maze tests. We now ask whether ArKO mice are in fact capable of discriminating between and/or responding to volatile odors. Using habituation/dishabituation tests, we found that gonadectomized ArKO and wild-type (WT) mice of both sexes, which were tested without any sex hormone replacement, reliably distinguished between undiluted volatile urinary odors of either adult males or estrous females versus deionized water as well as between these two urinary odors themselves. However, ArKO mice of both sexes were less motivated than WT controls to investigate same-sex odors when they were presented last in the sequence of stimuli. In a second experiment, we compared the ability of ArKO and WT mice to respond to decreasing concentrations of either male or female urinary odors. We found a clear-cut sex difference in urinary odor attraction thresholds among WT mice: WT males failed to respond to urine dilutions higher than 1:20 by volume, whereas WT females continued to respond to urine dilutions up to 1:80. Male ArKO mice resembled WT females in their ability to respond to lower concentrations of urinary odors, raising the possibility that the observed sex difference among WT mice in urine attraction thresholds results from the perinatal actions of estrogen in the male nervous system. Female ArKO mice failed to show significant dishabituation responses to two (1:20 and 1:80) dilutions of female urine, perhaps, again, because of a reduced motivation to investigate less salient, same-sex urinary odors. Previously observed deficits in the preference of ArKO male and female mice to approach volatile body odors from conspecifics of either sex cannot be attributed to an inability of ArKO subjects to discriminate these odors according to sex but instead may reflect a deficient motivation to approach same-sex odors, especially when their concentration is low.
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The monocular/unihemispheric sleep was studied in male and female domestic chicks reared socially. In first week post-hatching, chicks were reared in couples whilst during the second week, for half of the chicks the cospecific was maintained (Conspec-chicks) and for the other half the conspecific was removed (No-Conspec-chicks). During the first week, female chicks showed a bias for more left-eye closure/right unihemipheric sleep, whilst male chicks did not show any eye-closure bias. In the second week, both female and male Conspec-chicks showed a bias for right eye-closure/left unihemispheric sleep. Female No-Conspec-chicks did not show any eye-closure bias whilst male No-Conspec-chicks showed a bias for more left eye-closure/right unihemispheric sleep. Based on the role of the avian brain lateralization, a bias for more right or left eye-closure could be associated with a prevalent activation of left or right hemisphere during wakefulness. Eye-opening during sleep might be connected with the hemisphere that was not or was less activated during wakefulness or with lateralization of the environment monitoring against predation.
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