Brizendine

"For men and their ducts, it'd be like having a big fat pipe to drain in a rainstorm," says Louann Brizendine , a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Read It and Weep, Crybabies Katherine Rosman 2011

As Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist, wrote in her book, The Female Brain, "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road."

Ronit Herzfeld: Sex And Love Can Come Together Ronit Herzfeld 2011

Brizendine, who has extensively studied gender brain differences, explains that the unique structure of the female and male brain determines how each gender thinks, what they value, and how they communicate.

Rebecca Shambaugh: Does Brain Science Prove That Companies Need Female Leaders? Rebecca Shambaugh 2011

"Boys are taught over and over again not to cry: to scrunch their faces, to think about the Gettysburg address, to distract themselves," says Dr. Brizendine, the author of the best-selling book, "The Female Brain."

Read It and Weep, Crybabies Katherine Rosman 2011

As Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist, wrote in her book, The Female Brain, "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road."

Ronit Herzfeld: Sex And Love Can Come Together Ronit Herzfeld 2011

Brizendine, who has extensively studied gender brain differences, explains that the unique structure of the female and male brain determines how each gender thinks, what they value, and how they communicate.

Rebecca Shambaugh: Does Brain Science Prove That Companies Need Female Leaders? Rebecca Shambaugh 2011

In her groundbreaking books, "The Female Brain" and "The Male Brain," neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., offers the physiological evidence for what we've always known: men and women are different.

Rebecca Shambaugh: Does Brain Science Prove That Companies Need Female Leaders? Rebecca Shambaugh 2011

In her groundbreaking books, "The Female Brain" and "The Male Brain," neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., offers the physiological evidence for what we've always known: men and women are different.

Rebecca Shambaugh: Does Brain Science Prove That Companies Need Female Leaders? Rebecca Shambaugh 2011

Social conditioning comes into play in restraining the impulse to cry, Dr. Brizendine says.

Read It and Weep, Crybabies Katherine Rosman 2011

Brizendine moves seamlessly from references to fMRI studies to phrases like "distinct female and male brain operating systems."

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