Thoughts Unleashed

1. "In particular, the connections between the two cerebral hemispheres are relatively more developed in the woman, compared to the man, while in discrete brain centers of the brain region called hypothalamus, the man possesses larger and more numerous neurons." In general terms whats this means is, it is possible to hypothesize that a man's thinking works through logical schemes based on a rational approach, while a woman is more able to use an intuitive approach in her reasoning or, in other words, that brain circuits are more rigid in men and more plastic in women.
2. A best-selling author and shrink, Brizendine says, our floor plans are different. She's got the bigger "worrywart centre" (the anterior cingulated cortex), and so stress tends to wig her out, as "conflict registers more deeply in the areas of the female brain".
   That riper prefrontal cortex of hers? Makes the ladies more pacifist and patient. Her hippocampus also runs a size larger. Meaning "she never forgets a fight, a romantic encounter or a tender moment - and won't let you forget it, either", says Brizendine, founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood & Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
   
3. Some more observations though not proven:

• Men think about sex every 52 seconds, while a woman does so only once a day.
• Women speak faster on average - 250 words per minute vs 125 for a typical male.
• A woman uses 20 000 words per day, while a man uses only 7 000.
• Boys don't listen to mommy (answer: because "he physically cannot hear the same tone of warning").
• And "a woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can't spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm".

I feel that sometimes our over thinking does help us as we might be able to figure out better solutions to certain problems but at the cost of increased stress for us and all you male species's patience :)

# posted by Purnima @ 1:26 PM