Aug 9, 2006

Women's brains are different

Louann Brizendine is a neuropsychiatrist who says the differences between women's and men's brains are very different.

How different? You can find out in her new book, "The Female Brain." You also read this article in The San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/06/MNG3HKAMVO1.DTL

Here's a few teasers:

  • Thoughts about sex enter women's brains once every couple of days; for men, thoughts about sex occur every minute.
  • Women use 20,000 words per day; men use 7,000 per day.
  • Women excel at knowing what people are feeling; men have difficultyspotting an emotion unless someone cries or threatens bodily harm.
  • Women remember fights that a man insists never happened.
  • Women over 50 are more likely to initiate divorce.