Women's Secrets: Clues to a Female Brain?

I was sitting on the train yesterday and couldn't help eavesdropping on the two women sitting in front of me. They looked about 40-something, casually dressed, and from outward appearance rather healthy. Then they started talking about how they're cope with their ailments. One woman has epilepsy and talked about raising a toddler when she worries she may drop her if she seizes, and how she can no longer drive and has to rely on other people to chauffer them around. She also said that because her husband is working crazy hours and she needs a solid night's sleep, they sleep in separate beds during the week. The other woman, who suffers from vertigo -and well, I couldn't hear all the details of her diagnosis--talked about when and how you reveal your illness to someone you're dating. About 45 minutes into their conversation, one woman said, "Oh my name is L." To which her train companion said, "Nice to meet you, I'm S." Women share in ways that I totally get but my husband never would. To me, this one snippet of a conversation revealed a scientific truth: Men's brains and women's brains are wired differently. Except for one thing. An Israeli study found just the opposite. Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv tried to divide 1,400 brains by gender. Was the amygdala, the emotional center, larger among the female brains? Was the gray matter, the nerve cells, bigger in the males? "There was no type of male brain or female brain." Daphna Joel, the leading investigator fro...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - Category: Science Source Type: news