Mental Hardware.

[swestrup]

Increasingly, its beginning to look like males and females not only tend to think differently due to differences in hormones and culture, but that the sexes differ in actual brain architecture. Since an awful lot of neuroscience has been performed on male animals under the assumption that females have the same brain structures, this has the potential to change much of what we think we know about the brain.

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[madamewoo.livejournal.com]

what, guys use their brain? The one on top of their neck? :-P

[swestrup]

Well, admittedly its a backup strategy...

[helenkacan.livejournal.com]

DUH.

No, really. And yet male subjects are the default ... with someone repeating the same OOPS backpeddling years from now.

As for the hormonal differences in women: well, you could study a woman's brain every day (would that be harmful???) to see what the differences were, during her cycle.

And this is one thing I learned a while ago: women who have suffered a stroke are more likely to regain functioning of the affected parts of their brains, because they have the ability to instigate parallel transfers of functioning from one side to the other side.

Always curious hugs,
H.

[swestrup]

Well, you know that males, even male scientists, have been conditioned to avoid females during their hormone fluctuations:

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

See, Tep? Chicks are weird. ^_-