The Female Brain
by: Louann Brizendine
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Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., 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 who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function.
In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.
The result: 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.
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., 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 who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function.
In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.
The result: 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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- So far too Good!
The Female Brain This book definitely is not just a guide for women to understand themselves.As a male reader I have found it so useful in inderstanding not only why she (my wife) or they (the women we love/hate)act the way they do.Also I understand now why people say that "men are all the same" or "women are all the same".From the brain's structure perspective and it's interaction with hormones and other "stuff" we are all the same, men and women.This regarding only to that perspective and ... Read More
Rating: - For All Women
This book helps to explain the emotional roller coaster that some girls and women find themselves on.Dr. Louann Brizendine describes the entire lifespan of the female brain with all of the up-to-date facts.(It helps to know why I'm feeling like I do.)This book was recommended to me by a male friend, I hope just as many men read this book as women.
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- Educational, though too much over-simplification
Having spent many years studying human psychology in both an academic setting and practical, hands-on settings, I can say that there is some value in this book. That said, I think it makes vast conclusions that are not so useful. For example, no one could seriously argue that there are a few general differences between men and women in, for example, what they find attractive in the opposite sex. (That's why you don't see men wearing lipstick in order to draw in the ladies.) However, in some many areas ... Read More
Rating: - Should read this a long time ago
Best book in a long time.I give it to everybody now and they love it and agree, "Why didn't somebody give this to me when I was 20?"Can't go wrong, great buy, great read.
Rating: - Challenging the Standard Sociological Model
I was trained as a sociologists to believe that gender differences were socially constructed.Turns out the science does not support this viewpoint....and gender is an important factor in our brains evolved.Would like to read about my brain...but being having two daughters and a lovely wife it is good to get some insight inside the heads of the folks I live with.Highly recommended.
- So far too Good!The Female Brain This book definitely is not just a guide for women to understand themselves.As a male reader I have found it so useful in inderstanding not only why she (my wife) or they (the women we love/hate)act the way they do.Also I understand now why people say that "men are all the same" or "women are all the same".From the brain's structure perspective and it's interaction with hormones and other "stuff" we are all the same, men and women.This regarding only to that perspective and ... Read More
- For All WomenThis book helps to explain the emotional roller coaster that some girls and women find themselves on.Dr. Louann Brizendine describes the entire lifespan of the female brain with all of the up-to-date facts.(It helps to know why I'm feeling like I do.)This book was recommended to me by a male friend, I hope just as many men read this book as women.
- Educational, though too much over-simplificationHaving spent many years studying human psychology in both an academic setting and practical, hands-on settings, I can say that there is some value in this book. That said, I think it makes vast conclusions that are not so useful. For example, no one could seriously argue that there are a few general differences between men and women in, for example, what they find attractive in the opposite sex. (That's why you don't see men wearing lipstick in order to draw in the ladies.) However, in some many areas ... Read More
- Should read this a long time agoBest book in a long time.I give it to everybody now and they love it and agree, "Why didn't somebody give this to me when I was 20?"Can't go wrong, great buy, great read.
- Challenging the Standard Sociological ModelI was trained as a sociologists to believe that gender differences were socially constructed.Turns out the science does not support this viewpoint....and gender is an important factor in our brains evolved.Would like to read about my brain...but being having two daughters and a lovely wife it is good to get some insight inside the heads of the folks I live with.Highly recommended.
