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Has your man got a one-track mind? Just proves he’s normal
Alexandra Frean, US Business Correspondent
In The Male Brain, Louann Brizendine, the American psychiatrist, follows up her controversial 2006 bestseller The Female Brain, which famously — and incorrectly — claimed that women use an average of 20,000 words a day compared with only 7,000 for men, and explores how the differences between the male and female brains often lead to the profoundest of misunderstandings and unintended consequences.
Her conclusion that the male brain, “marinated in testosterone” since the eighth week of conception, is hardwired to cause men to lie, take risks and suppress their emotions, is equally controversial, appearing to suggest that men’s behaviour is devoid of personal responsibility and social conditioning.
Is your teenage son bored and surly? Blame the hormones. If testosterone were beer, Dr Brizendine suggests, a nine-year-old boy would be getting the equivalent of half a pint a day but by the time he is 15, he is awash with the equivalent of nearly two gallons a day of the stuff. It blunts his ability to read facial expressions and heightens his sensitivity to criticism.
He doesn’t just look bored. He is bored. The testosterone-drenched reward centre in his brain now requires extraordinarily intense sensations to be activated — it’s why he likes all those shoot-em-up video games.
Or perhaps you complain to your man about a particularly tough problem at work. He immediately suggests a solution. Are you grateful? Hell, no. All you wanted him to say was, “I understand how you feel”. This doesn’t come naturally to him, however, because in men the analyse-and-fix-it circuit in the brain, known as the temporalparietal junction system, dominates the emotional empathy circuit, or mirror-neuron system. In women it’s the other way round.
Besides, men’s brain biology often works in women’s favour. Dr Brizendine cites research suggesting that testosterone levels plummet while levels of the milk-producing hormone prolactin soar in fathers-to-be, probably in reaction to the pheromones emanating from the mother-to-be’s skin. At the same time the man’s auditory circuits become more sensitive, making him better able to hear a crying infant. “By the time the baby is born, the father is primed to take care of it,” she says.
Dr Brizendine, a US talk-show regular, draws her sweeping conclusions from a wide array of scientific data as well as her 25-year experience as a practising psychiatrist. To make her book palatable for the non-scientific reader she mixes established scientific fact with more recent untested theories.
This relaxed approach to science got her into hot water with The Female Brain, in which she claimed that new mothers suffered from “mommy brain” and were incapable of focusing on anything other than their child.
As a self-professed feminist, Dr Brizendine accepts that her views may be unpalatable to many modern women. But she hopes that her latest book will help women to see the world through “male-coloured glasses” so they can better understand their sons and lovers.
By pointing out, for example, how the school system conflicts with teenage boys’ freedom-seeking brains and their sleep cycle, Dr Brizendine, who has a 20-year-old son, hopes to stimulate public debate on the way boys are educated and prepared for manhood.
Является ли Ваш мужчина узко мыслящим? Это доказывает то, что он нормальный
Александра Фрейн, американский деловой корреспондент
В «Мужском мозге» Луэнн Бризендин, американский психиатр, основываясь на своем противоречивом бестселлере 2006 года «Женский мозг», в котором яро - и неправильно - утверждает, что женщины используют в среднем 20 000 слов в день по сравнению с 7 000 для мужчин и исследует, как различия мужского и женского мозга зачастую приводят к глубочайшим недоразумениям и непредвиденным последствиям.
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An example of got a one-track mind, In The Male Brain, Louann Brizendine, the American psychiatrist, underlines that that the male brain, “marinated in testosterone” since the eighth week of conception, is hardwired to cause men to lie, take risks and suppress their emotions, is equally controversial, appearing to suggest that men’s behaviour is devoid of personal responsibility and social conditioning.
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Have you ever thought about what its like to not have food? I am sure that most people do not have to worry about being hungry everyday, but there are people who do. There are currently 925 million people that are starving in the world today. It hurts to think about all of those people that do not make it through the night because of not having any food. According to the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary hunger is “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite.
