All Blog Posts Tagged 'male' (13)

Louann Brizendine MD in conversation with Amy Tan April 11 7:30-9 pm

Louann Brizendine interviews Amy Tan, LIVE Sept 27, Palo Alto

The beloved author Amy Tan joins us in a lively conversation about the intersection of science and creativity. She will be interviewed by Louann Brizendine, M.D., author of The Female Brain and The Male Brain.

 I cannot express enough how fascinated I was with your books. The summer of 2011 will forever be coined 'the summer of the female brain' according to my boyfriend. It was all I quoted to him the entire season. I drove him crazy, although I think he secretly enjoyed it as well. :)
Best,
Nicole

6 ways Sex affects your Brain

From the New Scientist 2012: The sexes may be more alike than we thought. A startling new theory says that some of the disparities between our brains may be there to make us act the same

     SEVERAL years ago, the car I was driving was rear-ended by another at a stop sign. No one was hurt, but my passenger and I had to wait around to give a statement to the local police. Later on I asked my companion if he had noticed that the officer addressed most of the questions to him, even though…

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Why are the Spanish far more tolerant of domestic violence than those of us in the United States? I am in Madrid giving a talk at the NEO-11 Conference and i have been interviewed by several journalists here today and this is the question they all ask me...why is the Spanish/Latin male more violent toward female partners than men elsewhere?

What's up with this?

Everyone appears to need some emotional responsiveness to think both the world and themselves are real, but the following idea seems interesting to me to discuss.  I was reading a bit about delusions, and how in a severe form of delusion (capgras) a person might think that their spouse was replaced by an exact duplicate, or clone.  There is some evidence that females suffer from clinical delusions more frequently than males-and drawing on a type of methodology that suggests if Y has a problem A… Continue

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It's Partly in Your Head

Sandra Witelson on how male and female brains differ

Sandra Witelson has spent much of her career studying the relationship between brain structure and function, and the differences in these between men and women.

A neuroscientist from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Dr. Witelson has assembled a massive collection of brains for research and is…

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What do sex, stress and oxytocin have to do with each other?

I like this today from the Dating is a PAYNE website: "DAY FIVE...

I read a lot. Still, I always wish I could read more. I enjoy nourishing my mind with new information, especially information that provides me with fresh insight or reinforces my personal attitudes or believes.

One…

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now this is worth a read for all you biology buffs ..http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/09/penis.spines.genes/index.html

Men Who Abuse Women Physically, Emotionally May Also Sabotage Partners' Birth Control.

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Will you be my dopamine? They biochemistry of love

by Chris Pilny

There is nothing like watching Night at the Roxybury’s to remind me of that great existential question: What is love?  It is a classic—that both male and female scholars and the rapper, Fat Joe, have poured over for…

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