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The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine
The Female Brain
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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,... show more
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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780767920100 (0767920104)
ASIN: 767920104
Publisher: Harmony
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
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Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
2.0 The Female Brain
This book left me unsatisfied and feeling less feminine than before I started (the book cover doesn't help either with it's stereotyped images overlaying a brain shape). It read to me like a "women good, men bad" 1970's/80's feminist diatribe with a softer overlay. Instead of informing it confused...
A Book Every Other Day
A Book Every Other Day rated it
1.0 The Female Brain
The train wreck started with the initial characterization of the hormones. Establishing the hormones with a particular gender and giving them “jobs” that fit with gender roles does not bode well for the hope to see an objective look at the female brain without sexist stereotypes or gender roles mudd...
Sheziss loves Zeshak
Sheziss loves Zeshak rated it
3.0 El Cerebro Femenino
Thanks to this book, my mother and I hug more often in order to secrete oxytocin so she doesn't abandon me. It works.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
I don't think Brizendine presents anything in this book that hasn't been thoroughly debunked elsewhere. As science, it's crap.
Zrinka
Zrinka rated it
4.0 The Female Brain
I found this book better than expected. I know that some people see her ideas as neurosexism, pseudoscience (or just bad science), but despite all of its flaws, the lesson of this book is extremely important. Women's perception of reality changes from day to day under the influence of hormones. Forg...
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