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    Cover of The Male Brain

    The Male Brain

    Louann Md Brizendine · 2010

    The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility and candor, she reveals that the male brain: is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution. thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy. has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts. experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive.The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.Praise for The Female Brain:"Louann Brizendine has done a great favor for every man who wants to understand the puzzling women in his life.

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    1. vntxSep 2019
      That hypothesis is sensible.

      According to The Male Brain, by psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, males have 2.5x the space devoted to sexual drive in the hypothalamus compared to females.

      By the time males reach puberty, guy’s sexual occupation and fertile female tracking circuits run in the background non-stop like an unkillable daemon process.

      That’s absolutely going to divert brainpower.

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    2. archgoonApr 2010
      This is because he's not interested in answering the question. His main point, which people familiar with Language Log know (and thus the assumed target audience), is that the book The Male Brain takes common pop wisdom "Men Don't Listen", and proposes ad-hoc "scientific explanations for it".

      The main point of this article, which is understood by readers, is to show that there is no real scientific basis for the claim "Why Men Don't Listen", despite what "The Male Brain" claims. This means going through referenced papers in The Male Brain (shown as red quotes) and showing that they do not, in fact, show what Brizendine claims.

      So no, this article will disappoint you if you think you'll get an 'scientific' answer to the question.

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