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January 1, 2006
- 304 pages, Hardcover First published January 1, 2006
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23968.The_Female_Brain
Feb 27, 2019 · Beyond the “missing five ounces” of female brain — gloated about since the nineteenth century — modern neuroscientists have identified no decisive, category-defining differences between the...
- Lise Eliot
- 2019
When bigger isn’t always better: how history got the female brain wrong. Taking us back through centuries of sexism, Gina Rippon reveals how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions and urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain.
Feb 19, 2024 · Things got more complicated with the advent of brain-scanning technology in the 1990s, which suggested sex differences in the size of specific brain regions and structures.
May 22, 2017 · In a 2014 study, University of Pennsylvania researchers imaged the brains of 428 male and 521 female youths — an uncharacteristically huge sample — and found that the females’ brains consistently showed more strongly coordinated activity between hemispheres, while the males’ brain activity was more tightly coordinated within local brain ...
Aug 5, 2011 · The precise locations that correspond to the vagina, cervix and female nipples on the brain’s sensory cortex have been mapped for the first time, proving that vaginal stimulation activates ...
The ideas of differences between the male and female brains have circulated since the time of Ancient Greek philosophers around 850 BC. In 1854, German anatomist Emil Huschke discovered a size difference in the frontal lobe, where male frontal lobes are 1% larger than those of females. [ 6 ]
Mar 27, 2024 · Non-binary comedian Mae Martin has an MRI of their brain analyzed by neuroscientist Lise Eliot to find out what, if anything, their brain reveals about their gender.
