MetaFilter posts tagged with Brain and women

Perihelion

The Jesse Helms — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:56:38 -0800

Text messaging for teenage girls is like an orgasm explains neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. The doctor from Yale provides the science behind why male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition.

Take _that_, social constructionism!

greatgefilte — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:27:20 -0800

The psychology of taboo. Commenting on the Harvard hullabaloo that took place a few weeks ago, linguist/cognitive scientist Steven Pinker offers his opinion, using ideas he previously presented in The Blank Slate (via AL Daily)

White Matter and Gray Matter a Matter of the Sexes

ThePrawn — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:38:17 -0800

She may not have the grey matter, but what's that matter anymore, anyway? A recent study shows that men have more gray matter, women have more white matter and in the end these differences seem to be no matter. Apparently men have more raw computing power, while women have a more efficient infrastructure -- resulting in similar general intelligence.

srboisvert — Tue, 21 May 2002 09:34:14 -0800

SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE BRAIN: Men and women display patterns of behavioral and cognitive differences that reflect varying hormonal influences on brain development Sugar and spice versus snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Or was it masculinizing androgens 'organizing' behaviour at critical periods? At least now there is a scientific explanation of why my girlfriend beats me while watching Pat spin the wheel.

tiaka — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:12:28 -0800

Men listen with half-the-brain. Women, the whole. Now it's obvious that women are superior and it is inevitable that they will dominate the human race, kill off the male and live like those space Amazonians you saw in Star Trek. Yep.