EVIDENCE: NOT SO

DIFFERENT IN THE END

BY: JHONNATAN DAVID COBOS ACOSTA

2020
 THE BRAIN DIFFERS AT 8 WEEKS OF
GESTATION

• THE BRAIN DIFFERENCE APPEARS AT 8

WEEKS OF GESTATION, PREVIOUSLY
UNISEX, IS WHEN THE TESTICLES APPEAR
IN CHILDREN AND A HIGH LEVEL OF
TESTOSTERONE BEGINS TO APPEAR,
INCREASING THE GROWTH OF CELLS IN
SEXUAL AND AGGRESSION CENTERS.

HOWEVER, IN THE CASE OF GIRLS, THEIR

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IS NOT
INFLUENCED BY TESTOSTERONE.
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DIFFERENT BRAIN CIRCUITS

• IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SUSPECTED THAT THE BRAINS OF WOMEN AND MEN ARE
A LITTLE DIFFERENT. SCIENCE IS NOW SUPPORTING POPULAR KNOWLEDGE:
A NEW STUDY FOUND THAT MEN HAVE MORE SYNAPSES CONNECTING TO
CELLS IN A PARTICULAR BRAIN REGION.

DR LOUANN BRIZENDINE RECALLS THAT UNTIL THE EIGHTH WEEK OF LIFE,

ALL FETUSES HAVE FEMALE-TYPE BRAIN CIRCUITS BUT, LATER, THESE
BRAIN CIRCUITS OF MEN BECOME MASCULINE AND THERE ARE
DIFFERENCES IN THE SIZE OF SOME BRAIN AREAS IN BOTH SEXES.

FOR EXAMPLE, HIS RESEARCH HAS LED HIM TO SAY THAT IN THE MALE
BRAIN THE AREAS DESTINED FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY OR AGGRESSIVENESS
ARE GREATER, WHILE IN THE FEMALE BRAIN THE AREAS DESTINED TO
LISTEN AND EMPATHY STAND OUT.
MEN HAVE BETTER NEURAL
COMMUNICATION

In 2014 was published a study by researchers from the

University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, in which it was concluded that men have better
neuronal communication within the same brain hemisphere
while women have better neuronal communication between
the two hemispheres.

And what does this mean? That the female brains are more
gifted to be more intuitive and analytical, while the male
ones for perception and action.
WOMEN FEEL PAIN DIFFERENTLY THAN MEN

• UNTIL NOW IT HAS BEEN ASSUMED THAT WOMEN HAD A HIGH

LEVEL OF TOLERANCE TO PAIN, MUCH HIGHER THAN THAT OF MEN,
THIS TO HELP THEM DEAL WITH THE AGONY OF GIVING BIRTH OR
WITH MENSTRUAL PAIN. BUT THE THING IS, WOMEN ACTUALLY
FEEL PAIN IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY.

A STUDY BY THE UNIVERSITY OF STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, HAS

CONCLUDED THAT IT IS THEY WHO PERCEIVE PAIN WITH THE
GREATEST INTENSITY.
 MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE MEMORY
PROBLEMS

• IT IS VERY COMMON TO HEAR WOMEN COMPLAIN ABOUT MEN’S

LACK OF MEMORY FOR THE DATES AND EVENTS INDICATED. THERE
ARE STUDIES THAT CONFIRM THAT MEN TEND TO FORGET
ANNIVERSARIES, BIRTHDAYS, ETC. AT LEAST SO SAYS THE
STEREOTYPE OF MAN, IS WHAT THE POPULAR CULTURE SAYS. NOW A
SCIENTIFIC STUDY HAS COME TO PROVE IT AS SCIENCE COMMANDS.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WOMEN ALSO
HAVE DIFFICULTY REMEMBERING SUCH EVENTUALITIES. THE
STUDY PRESENTED IN THE JOURNAL BMC PSYCHOLOGY BY JOSTEIN
HOLMEN AND HIS TEAM AT THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NTNU) STATES THAT WOMEN HAVE THE
SAME PROBLEMS TO REMEMBER BUT MORE TENUOUSLY. THE
REASON, TO THIS DAY, IS STILL A MYSTERY.

BEING IN GOOD
SHAPE IS HARDER
FOR WOMEN
WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 65 FIND IT
MORE DIFFICULT THAN MEN OF THE SAME
AGE TO KEEP THEIR MUSCLES, WHICH
PROBABLY HAS AN IMPACT ON THEIR
ABILITY TO REMAIN PHYSICALLY FIT.
FOR THE FIRST TIME SCIENTISTS HAVE
SHOWN THAT IT IS HARDER FOR WOMEN
TO REPLACE THE MUSCLE MASS THAT IS
NATURALLY LOST WITH AGE. THIS IS DUE
TO THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MALE
AND FEMALE BODY IN THE UTILIZATION
OF FOOD.
BONUS.
BAD SLEEP IS MORE
HARMFUL FOR
WOMEN
IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN THAT POOR
SLEEP HARMS WOMEN MORE THAN MEN,
NOW RESEARCHERS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
HAVE DISCOVERED WHY.
THE STUDY, PUBLISHED IN "BRAIN,
BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY", FOUND THAT
POOR SLEEP IS ASSOCIATED WITH
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (DISTRESS)
AND A HIGH RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE AND TYPE 2 DIABETES. AND THEY
ALSO FOUND THAT THIS WAS MUCH MORE
COMMON IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN.
WOMEN AND MEN
HAVE DIFFERENT
BRAIN STRUCTURES
FOR A LONG TIME IT WAS THOUGHT
THAT THE BRAIN ARCHITECTURE WAS
THE SAME FOR EVERYONE AND THAT
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES, BETWEEN
MEN AND WOMEN, WERE DUE TO
HORMONAL DIFFERENCES AND OF
COURSE TO SOCIAL PRESSURES.
HOWEVER, SCIENTISTS ARE FINDING
EVIDENCE SUGGESTING THAT THE
BRAIN OF MEN AND WOMEN ARE
FORMED FROM DIFFERENT GENETIC
"PROGRAMMING" AND THAT THERE
ARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SOME
NEUROLOGICAL CIRCUITS AND
NEUROTRANSMITTER