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The Female Brain |  | Author: Louann Brizendine
Publisher: Broadway
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0767920104
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Publication Date: August 7, 2007
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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, 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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A great read. July 26, 2010
Kathryn J. Macdonald (San Francisco, CA)
Still in the midst of this book. Fascinating observations and insight written in a non-sciencey way making it a fun and entertaining read.
 understanding women -- for men July 7, 2010
Thomas J. Lundy
I raised 2 daughters and have been married and studied psychology at graduate levels. this book convinced me of how little I knew of human female behavior. I'll never be the same in relations with women.
Good, General Guide to Female Brain July 3, 2010
B. Nicholson
I am only halfway through this book and I don't know if I can finish it because of all the man-bashing. I choose this book because I thought someone with an academic record like Dr. Brizendine would be objective and professional. I can only read "testosterone erodes males brains" so many times. The idea that a man's brain produces a self-destructive chemical is preposterous. The only time this is possible is when it has been highly concentrated through abuse of pro-hormones and steroids.
I am also far from envious of the female brain. Every subtle attempt Dr. Brizendine makes to suggest female superiority I meet with skeptical disdain. Dr. Brizendine seems to blame hormones for the majority of womens behaviors, to the point that they can't control them and that they should not be held accountable. I refuse to believe a chemical in your brain makes you open your mouth to a parent or loved one and say "I hate you." The fact that this has gotten women out of prison by pleading insanity scares the hell out of me. (Dr. David Eagleman has also discussed this in his lecture "The brain and the law.")
While this review came too late for me, I will side with Dr. Brizendine on a few areas. I don't think this book is supposed to be an in depth scientific analysis for individuals with a Ph.D. What it is to me is a book for everyday people trying to understand women. Women are very complicated, and this book explains many of these complications to me. The details on how this happens precisely in the brain are irrelevant to me. The only exceptions are where the studies have been ridiculously extrapolated and manipulated, as with the infant eye-contact section. I appreciate the academic community pointing out these discrepancies.
Also, in reacting to Dr. Brizendines differing ideas so competitively, trying to one-up her interpretation of the data cited in her exhaustive studies, Dr. Peterzell validates much of what Dr. Brizendine writes about males. Indeed, there is an overwhelming amount of men who fit the depiction of Dr. Brizendines male in this book, but I am not one of them and most of my male friends aren't either.
I noticed she has written the book "The Male Brain" now, I hope she makes up for her transgressions against my gender. :)
Good Science May 21, 2010
Clifford S. West (San Mateo, CA)
I enjoyed this book and its companion, The Male Brain. Dr. Brizendine presents a highly referenced study on the differences between the sexes. She explains the material well and uses case studies to support her conclusions. Somehow I'm having trouble convincing the three females in my family that this is a very interesting and informative read. Curious. And probably consistent with a woman's more intuitive and less analytical approach to the issue.
"The Female Brain, and the female it controls" May 16, 2010
Stuart H. Galesburg (Chicago, IL - USA)
Recently purchased, "The Female Brain", and wished it was required reading in high-school or college, since the author is a
neuro-psychiatrist, and tells us the difference genetically, between the male and female brains, and tells us how the female brain develops, a bit differently than the male brain develops from birth, child-hood, teen years, and the rest of the living life of the female. If males, such as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, etc., want to know a great deal more about a female, and what she is all about, and the brain that controls her, they should read this fun and educational book.
Stuart, Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 2010.
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