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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 612.8 EAN: 9780767920100 ISBN: 0767920104 Label: Broadway Manufacturer: Broadway Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 07, 2007 Publisher: Broadway Release Date: August 07, 2007 Studio: Broadway Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior. The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - File in Fiction, not Science.The problem with this book is that Brizendine actively misrepresents research and uses numbers that are basically made-up. Her "science" doesn't stand up to scrutiny. For instance, on differences between male and female speech patterns she claims that women speak three times more words than men in a day, and speak almost twice as fast. In fact, no reliable studies had been done when the book came out. Prompted by the book, somebody actually bothered to measure, and it turned out that ... Read More Rating:  - Speed ReadingI loved this book - finished it in an hour. At first I was put off by her approach, but then realized there was a meth od in the madness. Dr. Benzedrine is a rush! Rating: - Should be required reading for every married couple!This book was very readable and highly informative. I have recommended it to many of my friends and colleagues. It should be required reading for every couple! I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the author's scientific approach, knowledge of hormonal influences on the brain, and life cycle approach. I felt acknowledged and so much more "normal" after reading this book. My mother (an active 78) read it and plans to share it with her other 2 daughters, 3 other grandaughters and newest grandaughter ... Read More Rating: - If you REALLY want to understand womenThis is the highlight of my reading year. The most insightful exploration of the female mind, I have ever enjoyed. A MUST read for young girls, young lovers, new and old Moms and if they dare, men who want to understand. Rating: - Don't listen to the naysayersDon't listen to the naysayers. Brizendine has had the guts to broach a touchy subject in a touchy era. For nearly half a century now the feel good political correctness movement--spearheaded by the feminist movement starting in the 60s--has tried to persuade us to ignore what is obvious to anyone with eyes open, that men and women are different. And they do this under the auspice of all of us just getting along. (Alas, the feminist call for us to just get along, if anything, supports Brizendine's ... Read More 
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