tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post7958928211505426673..comments2023-05-26T02:26:47.755-07:00Comments on The Worry Free Life: The Female Brain: A Book ReviewDr. Terry Sandbekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14673542939234937027noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-61277004574537372622010-03-12T04:56:58.687-08:002010-03-12T04:56:58.687-08:00As a woman with a "post-menopausal" brai...As a woman with a "post-menopausal" brain who has lived through the entire women's movement, raised some children and known a few "male brains" and is, by profession, a lactation consultant who works with new families dealing with nurturing new life, I find this information very confirming. To Elizabeth I want to say that she may feel quite differently once she has a baby and feels the very female brain pull to love and nurture her baby and realizes the significance of this over professional life.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300029174054941262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-45922166697771434982010-02-23T23:50:11.518-08:002010-02-23T23:50:11.518-08:00As a woman about to go into the "workforce,&q...As a woman about to go into the "workforce," the concern for discrimination is very real. I've been told how I should dress and behave in interviews to make it clear that I'm not about to run off and get married and have children (and therefore disappear from the workplace). Frustrating, and a bit offensive.<br /><br />I think it is equally important for men to not be afraid of the biological differences and learn to value them as well.Elizabeth Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-56213438515735814782009-10-20T19:20:24.941-07:002009-10-20T19:20:24.941-07:00You are so right about extremism in thinking about...You are so right about extremism in thinking about men and women. Some straight men are effeminate and some straight women have masculine characteristics. Then we have our gay friends who were born with a combination of male and female characteristics. We need to honor differences. As to the notion that men and women are different species, this is always a tongue-in-cheek comment. Nobody believes this literally. All humans are members of the same species.<br /><br />If you are interested in reading more about the evidence for differences (statistically) between the brains of men and women, here are some references you may be interested in. A few of these books were written for graduate school and are very expensive.<br /><br />Baron-Cohen, S. (2003). The Essential Difference. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.<br /><br />Becker, J., Berkley, K., Geary, N., Hampson, E. & Herman, J. (Eds.). (2007). Sex differences in the brain: From genes to behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br /><br />Blum, D. (1998). Sex on the brain: The biological differences between men and women. New York: Penguin.<br /><br />Darlington, C. (2009). The female brain: Conceptual advances in brain research. CRC<br /><br />Hines, M. (2005). Brain gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br /><br />Key, M. (1996). Male/Female language. Scarecrow Press.<br /><br />Moir, A. & Jessel, D. (1992). Brain sex: The real difference between men & women. New York: Delta Publishing.<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. I, and hopefully my readers, appreciate your helpful remarks.Dr. Terry Sandbekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14673542939234937027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-2057981741063439192009-10-20T11:01:09.903-07:002009-10-20T11:01:09.903-07:00It's good to appreciate sex differentiation. B...It's good to appreciate sex differentiation. But there is the extreme we must guide against: that of making it seem as if we are talking of two different species, as Dr. Brizedine's book suggests.<br /><br />I would have appreciated the book even more if it showed more evidently how the male and the female brain constitution are complementaryAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16848484331599326788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-11445556460066538162009-07-21T22:29:56.114-07:002009-07-21T22:29:56.114-07:00Thank you for your comments. I'm glad you chec...Thank you for your comments. I'm glad you checked out other perspectives on Dr. Brizedine's book. <br /><br />Drs. Young and Balaban appear to have some legitimate concerns about her book. The journal "Nature" is one of the top scientific journals in the world and any article that appears in it must be respected. Dr. Peterzell also expressed concerns in the Wikipedia article.<br /><br />Since neruo-psychology is not a field of competency for me, I can only respond with my opinions from a more general vantage point. I found their critiques a bit one-sided in that when they pointed out errors in the book, they didn't spell out an alternative to these "errors." Another concern is that often the author of a critical book review is given the chance to respond to the criticism. I don't know if this has happened in "Nature" or not. It would be interesting to find out how Dr. Brizendine would respond to the review. Then the information would not be so one-sided. Dialogue between dissenting views remains the life blood of science. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.Dr. Terry Sandbekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14673542939234937027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981463723721077663.post-67193590303390211452009-07-13T13:12:56.270-07:002009-07-13T13:12:56.270-07:00I have started reading this book and I find it rat...I have started reading this book and I find it rather fascinating. However being rather sceptical I like to read reviews of books as well. I found the rather worrying criticisms by Young and Balaban whoe reviewed the book in Nature at the Wikipedia entry for the book (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book) and http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/YoungBalabanBrizendine.pdf). Are you aware of this? What is your opinion on it?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05660962916377917392noreply@blogger.com