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Difference between men and women: It's all in the brain
Difference between men and women: It's all in the brain

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Cell numbers -- men have 4% more brain cells than women, and about 100 grams more of brain tissue. Many women have asked me why men need more brain tissue in order to get the same things done.

Cellular connections - even though a man seems to have more brain cells, it is reported that women have more dendritic connections between brain cells.

Corpus collosum size - it is reported that a woman's brain has a larger corpus collusum, which means women can transfer data between the right and left hemisphere faster than men. Men tend to be more left brained, while women have greater access to both sides.

Language - for men, language is most often just in the dominant hemisphere (usually the left side), but a larger number of women seem to be able to use both sides for language. This gives them a distinct advantage. If a woman has a stroke in the left front side of the brain, she may still retain some language from the right front side. Men who have the same left sided damage are less likely to recover as fully.

Limbic size -- bonding/nesting instincts - current research has demonstrated that females, on average, have a larger deep limbic system than males. This gives females several advantages and disadvantages. Due to the larger deep limbic brain women are more in touch with their feelings, they are generally better able to express their feelings than men. They have an increased ability to bond and be connected to others (which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children). Females have a more acute sense of smell, which is likely to have developed from an evolutionary need for the mother to recognize her young. Having a larger deep limbic system leaves a female somewhat more susceptible to depression, especially at times of significant hormonal changes such as the onset of puberty, before menses, after the birth of a child and at menopause. Women attempt suicide three times more than men. Yet, men kill themselves three times more than women, in part, because they use more violent means of killing themselves (women tend to use overdoses with pills while men tend to either shoot or hang themselves) and men are generally less connected to others than are women. Disconnection from others increases the risk of completed suicides.

So it seems that we have an answer as to why men are more likely to take it easy and stress a lot less than women in general. It is also said that women have 15% more blood flow in their brains.

Maybe that's why my gf freaks out for nothing. Her brain connections are to fast for mine.

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"Difference between men and women: It's all in the brain "

...and certain points south.
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I've heard this for quite a while.
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Due to the larger deep limbic brain women are more in touch with their feelings, they are generally better able to express their feelings than men. They have an increased ability to bond and be connected to others (which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children). Females have a more acute sense of smell, which is likely to have developed from an evolutionary need for the mother to recognize her young. Having a larger deep limbic system leaves a female somewhat more susceptible to depression, especially at times of significant hormonal changes such as the onset of puberty, before menses, after the birth of a child and at menopause. Women attempt suicide three times more than men. Yet, men kill themselves three times more than women, in part, because they use more violent means of killing themselves (women tend to use overdoses with pills while men tend to either shoot or hang themselves) and men are generally less connected to others than are women. Disconnection from others increases the risk of completed suicides.
Why do I get the feeling that whoever did the research had forgotten about this until the day before the deadline.
I think he just asked a couple of questions to his wife, read a few womens magazines and put a paper together with things that are more or less common knowledge, right.?!
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I wonder, if brain was the determinant factor of the dominance of the human race over the rest living things on earth why women didn't dominate over male for the past one hundred thousand years?

As for the slightly heavier male brain I suspect the following:
Since a percentage of the cortex represents parts of the body and as males tend to have more advanced mascular and kinetic system it looks like more tissue would be needed for the representation. Hands occupy a great percentage on that representation and if I'm not mistaken men know how to work thier hands much better than women can
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Actually, hands occupy a very large area of the brain for both men and women.
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That's true. All areas are more or less about the same in both genders but it appears that very slight differences occur. Perhaps the hand representation occupies a bit more space in men but that is what I just came up after I read this thread. I could be entirely wrong
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Utter pseudoscientific bollocks, it's obvious to anyone with half a brain the real "difference" is based on power and position in society, not genetics.

And no I don't wish to discuss it, polytubby ****ers.
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Utter pseudoscientific bollocks, it's obvious to anyone with half a brain the real "difference" is based on power and position in society, not genetics.

And no I don't wish to discuss it, polytubby ****ers.
/me laughs as Buck storms all upset out of the room.

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it's obvious to anyone with half a brain the real "difference" is based on power and position in society, not genetics.
I totally disagree with that statement... Still, if it were owed to society could it not be so that society can have a physical/genetic effect on people, a kind of evolution owed to society? Crack babies, radiation/mutations, etc... occur because of society, a by-product of group living. Depression is shown to be genetic and that can definitly be cause by social issues...

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buck's right, you know. women always are.
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er, women are always right. damn thing submitted the reply too early.

women are always right, and they always control those they have charmed.

this is when you pull out the wizard hat of +9 sex0ring and the massive wand of relational conjugation +6.
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er, women are always right. damn thing submitted the reply too early.
Suuure. That's why there's a period after 'are'?

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This is where Q cubed has someone hovering over his shoulder...

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this is when you pull out the wizard hat of +9 sex0ring and the massive wand of relational conjugation +6.
And now she's wandered off, satisfied by his cowtowing to her authority.

btw, Spec, I don't know if you inserted that comment, "which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children", but it's a false statement. There have been tribes in New Guinea where men were the primary caregivers.
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Utter pseudoscientific bollocks, it's obvious to anyone with half a brain the real "difference" is based on power and position in society, not genetics.

And no I don't wish to discuss it, polytubby ****ers.
I will have to disappoint you on this.

Humans and all living things are bounded by their own matter. Perception and reaction are products of our neural system and the senses that connect us all to the real world. You want to call it genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, soul or simply body, that is what really rules us. Environment can only influence and in the lenght of time even cause changes - known as physical selection. But things like society can merely cause signifficant changes to human kind. Well a nuclear war could change lot of things actually
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SHHH! she'll come back and ask me what i'm thinking!
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Utter pseudoscientific bollocks, it's obvious to anyone with half a brain the real "difference" is based on power and position in society, not genetics.

And no I don't wish to discuss it, polytubby ****ers.
Yes, why discuss something so patently absurd and unfounded in reality? Biology has no role at all.
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Suuure. That's why there's a period after 'are'?
typed it out, then realized it was ambiguous what i was referring to. pressed tab+space without thinking about it instead of shift-tab+backspace.
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btw, Spec, I don't know if you inserted that comment, "which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children", but it's a false statement. There have been tribes in New Guinea where men were the primary caregivers.
No I did not. If you click the link you can have more details.

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typed it out, then realized it was ambiguous what i was referring to. pressed tab+space without thinking about it instead of shift-tab+backspace.
That's even lamer than your 1st excuse.

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No I did not. If you click the link you can have more details.
Then the guy didn't do a thorough job in his research. Either him or Discovery Channel. Tell them to talk to each other until they get a more definitive answer.
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I think a great detriment to society is when women are NOT right, but men continue to support them as if they were.

I wonder how many times a man has said 'yes, dear' and then spent the next week frantically having to lie, cheat and steal to hide the fact that he should have said 'no, dear'; although I do acknowledge the day or two he would have spent in the doghouse as a result of saying no. But a week vs. a couple of days - oy vey! We're definitely from different hemispheres, if not planets.
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I wonder, if brain was the determinant factor of the dominance of the human race over the rest living things on earth why women didn't dominate over male for the past one hundred thousand years?
Because the brain wasn't and maybe still isn't the determinant for power or "dominance". Systematic oppression and brainwashing can be very effective at keeping people down.

Several fairly matriarchal societies do exist, but for various reasons they are not mirror images of patriarchal ones. Also, because one particular society got lucky and expressed its dominance over all others in the last few centuries, they are also fairly obscure.
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I wanna be head ambassador to the women's hemisphere.
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Females have a more acute sense of smell
This explain a lot.

gf: What's that smell?
me: What smell?
gf: Don't know but its really strong.
me: And I just cleaned last night.
gf: Well I'm happy I bought you that insence, where did you put it?
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I really dislike all this men are from mars pschobabble cheap science.

It seems to me women are very similar to men in almost every respect mentally. In other words, I seem to fall much more on the nurture side of what makes man and women different.
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This explain a lot.

gf: What's that smell?
me: What smell?
gf: Don't know but its really strong.
me: And I just cleaned last night.
gf: Well I'm happy I bought you that insence, where did you put it?
Man, I ****ing HATE it when say I'm driving and someone says "What's that smell?" Usually I'm concentrated on something else and not smelling it at all, but when they say "What's that smell" I smell it and it's always some ****ing ungodly geneva-convention-violating stench set by some animal or thing that should have never existed.

And it's always a woman that says it too.
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all I know about brains is men are smart. Women are dumb. Men don't need directions, women do. Men can drive. Women can't. Men can play computer games well. women can't.

Men are more successful at suicide because they are smarter than women.

women try to committ suicide for attention. They don't really want to die. Women are attention whores.
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I think a great detriment to society is when women are NOT right, but men continue to support them as if they were.

I wonder how many times a man has said 'yes, dear' and then spent the next week frantically having to lie, cheat and steal to hide the fact that he should have said 'no, dear'; although I do acknowledge the day or two he would have spent in the doghouse as a result of saying no. But a week vs. a couple of days - oy vey! We're definitely from different hemispheres, if not planets.
that never happens with me.

I'm always right- being as I am a man- and the woman is always wrong. I never say a woman is right- and I never say- yes dear.

For some reason I'm still single, I can't figure it out
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