10 things you did not know about the female brain
Here are 11 interesting facts that you did not know about the female brain.
We have all heard that "men go from March, women come from Venus", but are they really so different? The biological differences are quite obvious, but scientists have also tried to prove that male and female brains also have fundamental differences. This research has led to many myths, millions of people believe to be true, such as women are more emotional because they have larger brain areas responsible for transforming emotions. Behavioral scientists and neuroscientists spend decades on their studies of male and female brains, but the information changes all the time that new discoveries come into light. Here are 11 interesting facts that you did not know about the female brain.
Women's brains are smaller, so what?
It is true that women's brains are smaller than men. But does it mean that women are less intelligent because of that? Definitely not. Yet, in the past, this fact has been used as proof of inferiority of women to men. This myth has long been dilapidated as the brain size has nothing to do with your intelligence. Men are just bigger in general! Therefore, their brain also has more mass.
Women and Psychic Powers
The intuition of women is not a myth. In fact, women are more in line with emotions and needs of other people. They are biologically wired to understand the needs of a baby crying without words (because, well, babies speak only the baby language), as well as their "sixth direction" is a power to be counted. It is not by chance if women have been connected to all dark and mysterious things since the first moments where witchcraft was something more real than becoming a doctor is today. Women have a deep connection with nature and can become great healers using what they learn from the world around them. After all, they do not call anything from the earth 'mother' for nothing.
Periods also affect women's brains
It is a general belief that during women of this month period, women turn into hormone-emotional emotional beings entrained in tears at any time. It is true that the female brain is influenced by hormones during menstrual periods, but it is also true that their brains are bombarded by hormones all the time! Progesterone, testosterone and estrogen are three main hormones that affect women during their menstrual cycle. As their levels change, women's sexuality, mood and even the way the memory works. And it's not something that happens just for a week - it happens all the time!
Birth control impacts women's memories
The hormones hold immense power over the lives of women, so it is not surprising that the control of hormonal births also influences female brains. Many birth control pills offer an additional amount of progesterone to the body. Progesterone is a hormone that affects the way women treat memories, which even means a little more extra will have a huge impact. During a study, a group of women was shown a video with an injured boy. Women who were on the control of progesterone births were more concentrated on the story of history, while those who were not on birth control, remember specific details. Their memory has just worked in different ways!
Mom Cerfers is a real thing
The women who gave birth can all agree that "Mom Brain" is not a myth. Well, scientists agree with that too! Many women reported that they could not think right or clearly as before pregnancy. They often felt foggy and had problems remembered things. Although many think that the decline in cognitive function is caused by lack of sleep, scientists feel that it is a little more complicated than that. It turns out that the restructural female brain during and after pregnancy, as well as the rest of the body with all its hormones. This means that some brain functions can be "sacrificed" as less important for a woman who receives a birth in favor of others who need to be used more.
Women are better looking for information
It turns out that "smaller" brains of women can be much more efficient to work with information. The neural lanes of brainwomen's networks are better related to that of men. This increased connectivity leads to a difference in treatment information. This suggests to suggest that women are living better in line with information, but no evidence does not yet support this theory.
Women combine their logical and intuitive brain to solve problems
Now it's something that guys do not do, at least not the way women do it. Cerebral imaging studies reveal that when it is presented with a complex problem, male and female brains react in a different way. Information in women's brains tends to rebound between left and right hemispheres, while male brain information tends to move in the same hemisphere of the brain. It is not that guys do not use both hemispheres, the information is only treated differently (as well as men and women can propose multipurpose solutions to the same problem). Although guys use logic and intuition separately, women tend to combine their logical and intuitive brain to solve problems.
Migraines affect women's brains in a different way
Overall, women are more likely to suffer from migraines than men. The cause of migraines is about the same - the swelling of brain tissue and pressing presses against the nerves. The part of the brain impacted by migraine is different for women - amygdala who is responsible for the treatment of emotions suffering the most. The parts of the brain dealing with pain also suffer from women's brains.
Differences in male and female brains do not predict behavior
It is true that the brains of men and women have their differences, but that does not mean that male brains are better than women or vice versa (although these differences are always used to strengthen various negative stereotypes). Men and women perceive and process information in different ways, but that does not mean that it affects their behavior. Men and women are the same with regard to cognitive ability and no one is better or worse. Until basically, we are all the same!
Male and female brains are quite similar
Studies have shown that there are differences between male and female brains, but they are not as big as you could think. Scientists were interested in whether some parts of the women's brain were larger or smaller than the same parts of the men's brain, since the overall size of their brain was comparable. They discovered that they were virtually similar! So why do men and women end up acting so differently? Education, society, stereotypes - the reasons are endless. Neuroscience believes that this behavior is much more on the interview than nature.