By Emily Oster GENDER AND OUR BRAINS How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds By Gina Rippon At some point or another, most books about the brain come back to the story ...

That undercuts the popular idea that there are two distinct kinds of brains, male and female. Pop psychology books and the media swallow even dubious claims, citing them to argue that ...

Are male brains really that different from female brains? Does it matter? Why should anybody care? More than 100 years ago, a German neurologist named Paul Julius Möbius published a book titled ...

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, a bestselling book claims. Science does confirm, though, that male and female brains are wired differently — but what that means is the focus of a ...

Are male brains really that different from female brains? Does it matter? Why should anybody care? More than 100 years ago, a German neurologist named Paul Julius Möbius published a book titled ...

The idea that something fundamental sets male and female brains apart really gained momentum in the 19 th century. As explained by cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon in her book The Gendered ...

Dense with research and point of view, the book argues that science ... Favorites include size (male brains typically weigh a bit more than female brains), structure and patterns of brain activity ...

Look at one and then the other. Can you tell which brain is female and which is male? You can't. Humanity has been hunting ...

A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as female if they make the “large” reproductive cell (the egg) and male if they make the ...

In the 20th and 21st centuries, researchers looked for distinctively female or male characteristics in smaller brain subdivisions. As a behavioral neurobiologist and author, I think this search is ...