Women In Neuroscience

Author : Dr Sarah McKay
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780733638534

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The Women's Brain Book by Dr Sarah McKay Pdf

For women, understanding how the brain works during the key stages of life - in utero, childhood, puberty and adolescence, pregnancy and motherhood, menopause and old age - is essential to their health. Dr Sarah McKay is a neuroscientist who knows everything worth knowing about women's brains, and shares it in this fascinating, essential book. This is not a book about the differences between male and female brains, nor a book using neuroscience to explain gender-specific behaviours, the 'battle of the sexes' or 'Mars-Venus' stereotypes. This is a book about what happens inside the brains and bodies of women as they move through the phases of life, and the unique - and often misunderstood - effects of female biology and hormones. Dr McKay give insights into brain development during infancy, childhood and the teenage years (including the onset of puberty) and also takes a look at mental health as well as the ageing brain. The book weaves together findings from the research lab, case studies and interviews with neuroscientists and other researchers working in the disciplines of neuroendocrinology, brain development, brain health and ageing. This comprehensive guide explores the brain during significant life stages, including: In utero Childhood Puberty The Menstrual Cycle The Teenage Brain Depression and Anxiety Pregnancy and Motherhood Menopause The Ageing Brain

Author : Gina Rippon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780525435372

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Gender and Our Brains by Gina Rippon Pdf

A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.

Author : Gina Rippon
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1784706817

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The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon Pdf

Barbie or Lego? Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that our sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choice and salaries. But what does this mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? Using the latest cutting-edge neuroscience, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains. Rigorous, timely and liberating, The Gendered Brain has huge repercussions for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves. 'Highly accessible... Revolutionary to a glorious degree' Observer

Author : Marie-Ève Tremblay,Corette J. Wierenga,Elizabeth B. Torres,Liana Fattore,Arianna Maffei,Michela Chiappalone
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832503881

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Women in Neuroscience by Marie-Ève Tremblay,Corette J. Wierenga,Elizabeth B. Torres,Liana Fattore,Arianna Maffei,Michela Chiappalone Pdf

Author : Lise Eliot
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9780618393114

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Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot Pdf

A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls are largely shaped by how they spend their time, and offers parents and teachers concrete ways to avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439125083

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An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind. Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability to bridge the gap between art and science, celebrated scholar-artist Diane Ackerman returns with the book she was born to write. Her dazzling new work, An Alchemy of Mind, offers an unprecedented exploration and celebration of the mental fantasia in which we spend our days—and does for the human mind what the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses did for the physical senses. Bringing a valuable female perspective to the topic, Diane Ackerman discusses the science of the brain as only she can: with gorgeous, immediate language and imagery that paint an unusually lucid and vibrant picture for the reader. And in addition to explaining memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, she reports on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and addresses controversial subjects like the effects of trauma and male versus female brains. In prose that is not simply accessible but also beautiful and electric, Ackerman distills the hard, objective truths of science in order to yield vivid, heavily anecdotal explanations about a range of existential questions regarding consciousness, human thought, memory, and the nature of identity.

Author : Cynthia L. Darlington,Cynthia Darlington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466574427

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The Female Brain by Cynthia L. Darlington,Cynthia Darlington Pdf

Ironically, the organ with the greatest reason to differ between the sexes, the brain, is often viewed as the most androgynous of all. Are there differences? Almost by convention, male animals are used in laboratory experiments in neuroscience. Even in clinical drug trials in humans, females are often excluded from the early phases of testing becau

Author : Louann Brizendine, MD
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780767928410

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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD Pdf

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound scientific understanding of the nature and experience of the female brain continues to guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship. 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.

Author : Shannon Moffett
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1565124235

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The Three-pound Enigma by Shannon Moffett Pdf

Describes the development of the human brain from conception to death, profiles some of the leading researchers working to unlock its secrets, and answers questions about such topics as dreams, consciousness, memory, and emotion.

Author : Dawn Maslar
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780757319259

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Men Chase, Women Choose by Dawn Maslar Pdf

The first book to offer cutting-edge research that explains how the brain works when two people first meet, start to date, fall in love, and then move into long-term, real love.

Author : Ana I. Duarte,Ana María Genaro,Silvia Fossati,Rosa Resende,Kristina Endres
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832516393

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Women in aging neuroscience 2021 by Ana I. Duarte,Ana María Genaro,Silvia Fossati,Rosa Resende,Kristina Endres Pdf

Author : Abby Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107084926

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Women Talk More than Men by Abby Kaplan Pdf

A detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.

Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393079252

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine Pdf

“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York Times It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math; men too focused for housework. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different—a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

Author : Susana Pilar Gaytan,Lidia Alonso-Nanclares
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832541975

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Women in Neuroanatomy by Susana Pilar Gaytan,Lidia Alonso-Nanclares Pdf

We are delighted to present the inaugural Frontiers in Neuroscience 'Women in Neuroanatomy' article collection. At present, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes are discouraging girls and women away from science-related fields, and STEM research in particular. Science and gender equality are, however, essential to ensure sustainable development as highlighted by UNESCO. In order to change traditional mindsets, gender equality must be promoted, stereotypes defeated, and girls and women should be encouraged to pursue STEM careers.

Author : Cynthia L. Darlington,Cynthia Darlington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415277221

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The Female Brain by Cynthia L. Darlington,Cynthia Darlington Pdf

Ironically, the organ with the greatest reason to differ between the sexes, the brain, is often viewed as the most androgynous of all. Are there differences? Almost by convention, male animals are used in laboratory experiments in neuroscience. Even in clinical drug trials in humans, females are often excluded from the early phases of testing because of the risk of pregnancy and because females tend to be inconsistent in their responses due to the influence of their hormones and the menstrual cycle. The flaw in this reasoning is enormous: These very results are often applied to females. In The Female Brain, Cynthia Darlington examines the evidence for structural and functional differences between the male and female brain in an accessible, straightforward manner, while providing substantial scientific material for the academic reader.