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TOECAP - 54 views

started by MICDS LIBRARY on 16 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
  • Katie Fuszner
    #6 Katie Fuszner on 16 Sep 09
     
    MICDS LIBRARY wrote:
    > Using the TOECAP criteria, give a one paragraph summary of why you chose this site. Specifically discuss the elements of TOECAP.

    I used the website: http://partnership.hs.columbia.edu/brain.html#other

    This site is trustworthy because it is on the Columbia University website and used for educational purposes (T). This site has a good objective because it is most likely there for students to read and to teach kids because it is a University run website (O). This site has enough information for you to use and learn about the differences between male and female brains (E). Although this information was first put up/last edited in 1996, because it is a University website they most likely would have changed it if there would have been updates on it, which there obviously hasn't because the University hasn't edited it since then so the information is current. (C). This information is accurate because it is run by a University and they use it to teach students (A). The purpose of this website is to inform people on the differences between male and female brains (P).
Katie Fuszner

Partnership for Women's Health - 1 views

partnership.hs.columbia.edu/brain.html

shared by Katie Fuszner on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • In a part of the temporal lobe associated with language skills, women's brains contain up to 11% more brain cells than men's brains. This does not necessarily mean that women are smarter than men, but it does show they are different.
  • Males are faster at solving problems involving some types of spatial perceptions than are women.
  • Women are two to three time more likely to experience depression than are men.
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  • Depression may not be as gender-linked as commonly thought, however.
  • The gender difference emerges around the age of 15.
  • Portions of the left brain hemisphere are more prominent in males. Some investigators correlate this with a reported greater hemispheric specialization at earlier ages in males and the lower incidence in females of developmental disorders associated with language deficits--known to be associated with the left hemisphere.
  • Age-related loss of brain volume is significantly greater in men than women in whole brain and frontal and temporal lobes,
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