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The Female Brain Paperback – August 7, 2007

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Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound scientific understanding of the nature and experience of the female brain continues to guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship.

Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.

Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function.

In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.

The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.

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“Finally, a satisfying answer to Freud’s question, ‘What does a woman want?’ Louann Brizendine has done a great favor for every man who wants to understand the puzzling women in his life. A breezy and enlightening guide to women—and a must-read for men.”
—Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence

“The Female Brain is sassy, witty, reassuring, and great fun. All women—and the men who love them—should read this book.”
—Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Wisdom of Menopause

“Louann Brizendine has been a pioneer in using medical science to empower her women patients. Now she seeks to share her hard-won knowledge with a wider audience. The result is a timely, insightful, readable, and altogether magnificent book.”
—Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature

“An eye-opening account of the biological foundations of human behavior. Destined to become a classic in the field of gender studies.”
—Marilyn Yalom, author of A History of the Breast

“In a breezy, playful style, Brizendine follows the development of women’s brains from birth through the teen years, to courting, pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing, and on to menopause and beyond.”
—Deborah Tannen, Washington Post

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While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function. At the same time, The National Institutes of Health began including female subjects in almost all of its studies for the first time. The result has been an explosion of new data on the female brain in recent years.
In" The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all of this information in a highly accessible way in order to educate women about their unique brain-body-behavior. For instance, why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? Dr. Brizendine explores these questions and many others that have stumped the sexes throughout the ages.
This revolutionary book combines two decades of Brizendine's own work, real-life stories from her clinical practice, and all of the latest information from the scientific community at large to provide a truly comprehensive look at the way women's minds work.

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Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Harmony; Reprint edition (August 7, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780767920100
ISBN-13: 978-0767920100
ASIN: 0767920104
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 474 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Bioengineering > Biochemistry
- #13 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Sexual Health > Women's Sexual Health
- #25 in Books > Science & Math > Chemistry

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Nancy L.

It also has the most useful information I could find on Peri and Post menopause

January 26, 2018

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Everyone who is a woman, married to a woman, works with women, or has a female as a child, should read this book. It also has the most useful information I could find on Peri and Post menopause. We use it in all of our pre- marital classes. Very eye opening and helps all understand the great mystery of why we women are so complex. It tracks development of the brain and the interplay of harmones effect on our thinking, acting, and their physical expression through all the stages of life. AMAZING! I do not know the author, but I can tell you this, Louann is has done a great service to the human population in the compling and mastering the research, and then handing it on to us. She knows her field!

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Solving the Mystery of Female Behavior

August 30, 2017

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This book was a revelation and presents compelling information every woman (and man) should know. It is well-written for the non-clinical person and made a liar out of me, since I used to insist my mood did not vary at different points in either my life or menstrual cycle. The content should probably be required reading at some point in a woman's life. It is both reassuring and unsettling.

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Lil D.

Excellent resource for all women

December 22, 2017

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I learned so much about the physiological aspect of the aging process - the entire lifespan - of women. I would recommend this to every woman I know and men too. This book would be especially helpful for women who are headed into menopause/post menopause, to get an idea of what to expect.

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P. Hwee

Great Insights for both Men and Women

January 29, 2014

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I read this book years ago and still remember some of the insights I learned from it. I bought and read the sequel "The Male Brain" and found that book equally informative about people's behaviors. I heard the author interviewed on various NPR programs, including Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" and my local public radio station KQED's program "Forum". This book and its "companion" "The Male Brain" should be delightful reading for parents, their teenage and adult kids and college freshmen, who must navigate life's challenges on their own as newly minted, liberated adults in the fast-moving, evolving environments in colleges (and universities), especially if they live on-campus or away from home (off-campus housing). These books can be used as "self-help" books are budding adults, whether they are young men, young women or young couples. Long-term couples and their parents can benefit hugely from reading this book and its companion.

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I read both The male brain and female brain focusing mostly on the "mature brain" chapters. Great information and I learned so much. I believe however that in The Female Brain there was more bias towards women. At times it read like a womens magazine article to uplift women. Womens suffrage in the past is acknowledged by everyone but men dying in wars to save nations, working hard labor and dying young also needs to be considered. I wonder if today's women erratic behavior isn't more social change than hormonal. Leaving your husband for no reason at 60 is wrong no matter your hormonal change.

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Bob Mitchell

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT

March 10, 2017

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One of the best books I've read on the difference between men and women.
Not only describes what goes on in a female's brain but also in the male brain from conception thru death.
EVERY adolescent girl OR boy should be required to read this by the time they get out of high school!!
Read this when I was 72. Wish I could have read it when I was 18. Unfortunately Brizendine didn't get around to writing it until I was 63.

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Clyde Willson

Excellent short overview of the female brain.

February 1, 2017

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Well-written, scientifically accurate (at the time of publication), full of important and essential information. Recommended for both female and male readers. Note also a companion overview of the male brain by the same author (a few years later).

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Five Stars

October 9, 2017

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Great book, to better understand how hormones affect the brain, incl. childhood, puberty, motherhood and menopause.

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