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Student Resource Center College Edition Document - 1 views

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  • And as men age, they tend to lose more tissue from a part of the brain located just behind the forehead that concerns itself with consequences and self-control. Generally speaking, the brain of a female is more interlinked and--if one assumes that a basic requirement of the post is to avoid dividing the faculty into two sweaty mobs--may be better suited for the kind of cautious diplomacy required of a high-profile university leader.
  • Many bold decrees have been issued. In the 19th century, the corpus callosum, a bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, was considered key to intellectual development
  • But most studies agree that men's brains are about 10% bigger than women's brains overall. Even when the comparison is adjusted for the fact that men are, on average, 8% taller than women, men's brains are still slightly bigger. But size does not predict intellectual performance, as was once thought. Men and women perform similarly on IQ tests. And most scientists still cannot tell male and female brains apart just by looking at them.
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  • Women appear to have more connections between the two brain hemispheres. In certain regions, their brain is more densely packed with neurons. And women tend to use more parts of their brain to accomplish certain tasks. That might explain why they often recover better from a stroke, since the healthy parts of their mind compensate for the injured regions. Men do their thinking in more focused regions of the brain, whether they are solving a math problem, reading a book or feeling a wave of anger or sadness.
  • omen seem to have stronger connections between the amygdala and regions of the brain that handle language and other higher-level functions. That may explain why women are, on average, more likely to talk about their emotions and men tend to compartmentalize their worries and carry on. Or, of course, it may not.
  • , brain size peaks around age 111/2. For the boys, the peak comes three years later. "For kids, that's a long time," Giedd says. His research shows that most parts of the brain mature faster in girls
  • "If you have a man and a woman looking at the same landscape, they see totally different things," asserts Leonard Sax, a physician and psychologist whose book Why Gender Matters came out last month. "Women can see colors and textures that men cannot see. They hear things men cannot hear, and they smell things men cannot smell." Since the eyes, ears and nose are portals to the brain, they directly affect brain development from birth on.
  • we know that the male retina has more cells designed to detect motion. In females, the retina has more cells built to gather information on color and texture
  • WOMEN have more connections between the left and right brain hemispheres. They tend to use more parts of their brains than do men for the same tasks MEN do their thinking in more focused regions of the brain, whether they are solving a math problem, reading a book or feeling a wave of anger or sadness
  • mallorie nguyen on 17 Sep 09
     
    database brain gender thing.
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UC HealthNews : Gender-Specific Differences Found in Human Brain - 0 views

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  • "Men's and women's brains are distinctly different," says de Courten-Myers. "While men have more neurons in the cerebral cortex, the brain's outer layer, women have more neuropil, which contains the structures needed for cell-to-cell communication."
  • Males possess more numerous, tightly packed nerve cells (neurons) than females. Neurons send and receive electrical signals that influence many functions of the body and create thoughts and feelings. Females tend to have more neuropil, the fibrillar tissue between nerve cell bodies which contains the synapses, dendrites, and axons that enable neurons to communicate with many other nerve cells
  • Although a man and woman may lose the same number of neurons due to a disease, the woman's functional loss may be greater because the cells lost are more densely connected with other neurons. "Conversely, in males, the reserve of neurons may be greater, which could prevent some of the functional losses
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  • one type is not better or worse than the other
  • mallorie nguyen on 17 Sep 09
     
    gender brain differences website
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