AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Brain sex. (Science and Medicine).(The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain)(Book Review)
Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain, Perseus Publishing, July 2003 (perseus.co.uk)
Autism is a complex brain disorder that afflicts victims with moderate to severe problems in communications and social interaction, without affecting underlying intellect in most cases. Simon Baron-Cohen, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge, is one of the world's leading authorities on autism. In his new book, he tries to explain autism on the basis of men and women having significantly different types of brains: Women's brains, he believes, are hardwired for empathy while men's brains find their strengths in understanding and building systems.
He defines these two types as Empathizing (E) and Systemizing (S) brains. Some people have a female brain, others a male brain, and others, a mix. His evidence comes from a variety of sources: Behavioral observation (especially of children), psychological examination, and neurological tests, including experiments involving hormones.
Together, these results provide enough evidence for Baron-Cohen to ...
- The essential difference: the male and female brain.(brain research)
- Phi Kappa Phi Forum Baron-Cohen, Simon January 1, 2005 700+ words
...biological differences between the male and female brain and mind. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...systemizing (E-S) theory, claims that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy...type E, but we can also call it the female brain, because more females than males show...
- Why male brains don't remember birthdays.(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Moore, Charlotte April 28, 2003 700+ words
...CHARLOTTE MOORE THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE: Men, Women...male" or a "female" brain? The Essential Difference argues that...thinks not; female brain skills are flexible...central to The Essential Difference. The arguments...
- The Female Brain.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Bookmarks November 1, 2006 700+ words
*** The Female Brain By Louann Brizendine Women and men...brings to bear on her study of how the female brain differs from its male counterpart...s guide to new research about the female brain and the neurobehavioral systems that...
- The female brain, 2d ed.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News September 1, 2009 700+ words
9781420077445 The female brain, 2d ed. Darlington, Cynthia L. CRC / Taylor & Francis...examines the evidence for functional differences between the female brain and the male brain and specifically focuses on differences in...
- The Female Brain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News September 1, 2006 700+ words
0767920090 The female brain. Brizendine, Louann. Broadway Books 2006 279 pages $24.95 Hardcover...community to provide a comprehensive look at the unique mechanics of the female brain. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
- Do you think like a man or a woman? As research shows one in five men has a...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) March 13, 2004 700+ words
...explain why. It seems that nearly one in five men has a 'female' brain, meaning that enjoying a good natter and a love of fashion...and making lists, for example - and not all women had a 'female brain' focused on empathising, giving them a love of chat and...
- The essential difference; male and female brains and the truth about...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News December 1, 2005 700+ words
046500556X The essential difference; male and female brains and the truth about autism. Baron-Cohen, Simon. Basic Books 2003 271 pages $14.00 Paperback BF692...
- The Female Brain.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific...
- Magazine article from: Science News August 12, 2006 700+ words
THE FEMALE BRAIN LOUANN BRIZENDINE While men and women share more than 99 percent of their genetic coding, the remaining 1 percent makes the two...
