Re: Your Opinion? The Main Psychological Differences between Women & Men?

Here is some new research about the differences between men and women.

John
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Gender and the brain

By Ronald Kotulak

Scientists are still a long way from figuring out what women and men
really
want, but they are getting a lot closer to understanding what makes
their
brains so different.

That women and men think differently has little to do with whether they
are
handed dolls or trucks to play with as infants. After all, when infant
monkeys are given a choice of human toys, females prefer dolls and
males go
after cars and trucks.

The differences, researchers are beginning to discover, appear to have
a
lot more to do with how powerful hormones wire the female and male
brain
during early development and later in life.

Among the newest findings: A previously unknown hormone appears to
launch
puberty's sexual and mental transformation; growth hormone is made in
the
brain's memory center at rates up to twice as high in females as in
males;
and the brain's hot button for emotions, the amygdala, is wired to
different parts of the brain in women and men.

Scientists hope the findings may help explain such mysteries as why
females
are often more verbal, more socially empathetic, more nurturing and
more
susceptible to depression, while males tend to be more aggressive, more

outdoorsy, more focused on things than people and more vulnerable to
alcohol and drug addiction.

Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune

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