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In fact, women talk almost three times as much, uttering 20,000 words a day on average compared to men's 7,000. They also speak more quickly , devote more brain power to chit-chat and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a female psychiatrist suggests.
In her book, The Female Mind, Luan Brizendine says the disparity is caused by differences in the male and female brain. The sex hormone testosterone, responsible for moulding the male brain in the womb, shrinks the areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory, she claims. The result is that men chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.
In contrast, women have more brain cells set aside for communication. And the act of talking triggers a flood of chemicals which gives them a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts on a high.
"Women have an eight-lane super highway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road." said Brizendine, who runs a female 'mood and hormore' clinic in San Francisco and describe herself as a feminist.
She says testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing --- allowing men to become 'deaf' to the most logical of arguments put forward by women. Their brain power, however, is definitely superior when it comes to sex. Brizendine believes the area responsible for sexual thought is twice as big in male brains. Studies have shown that, while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject crosses women's minds just once a day, the University of California psychiatrist says in her book, which is published next April.
Brizendine, whose findings are based on her own research and analysis of more that 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls." ...........
Daily Mail, London...Courtesy: The Times of India
In her book, The Female Mind, Luan Brizendine says the disparity is caused by differences in the male and female brain. The sex hormone testosterone, responsible for moulding the male brain in the womb, shrinks the areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory, she claims. The result is that men chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.
In contrast, women have more brain cells set aside for communication. And the act of talking triggers a flood of chemicals which gives them a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts on a high.
"Women have an eight-lane super highway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road." said Brizendine, who runs a female 'mood and hormore' clinic in San Francisco and describe herself as a feminist.
She says testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing --- allowing men to become 'deaf' to the most logical of arguments put forward by women. Their brain power, however, is definitely superior when it comes to sex. Brizendine believes the area responsible for sexual thought is twice as big in male brains. Studies have shown that, while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject crosses women's minds just once a day, the University of California psychiatrist says in her book, which is published next April.
Brizendine, whose findings are based on her own research and analysis of more that 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls." ...........
Daily Mail, London...Courtesy: The Times of India
