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The Male and Female Brain Defined

BY
CHRISTOPHER SHAW
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HONOURS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (2007)
WATERLOO UNIVERSITY
TITLE: The Male and Female Brain Defined
AUTHOR: Chris Shaw











































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Table of Contents


Introduction 4

Testosterone/estrogen 4

Sexual attraction 5

Conclusion 7


































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Introduction

Today I am going to be taking a look at the male and female brain and what exactly is the
difference between the two of them. Male and females think differently for the most part and I
am going to be analyzing the differences in how we act, feel and interact with one another.

Testosterone/estrogen

The biggest factor in todays decision making is ultimately how we feel about something
that relates to how we feel about ourselves. When we judge a situation and decide how to
proceed with it, men and women value different things. The first thing a male does is ask him
self how this can benefit me. While a woman says how do I feel about this? Two totally different
avenues to take and one deals with logic while the other deals with feelings. Both have ties to
emotion on some level and depends on if that person feels the situation is important or not. The
reasoning behind this is most definitely testosterone and estrogen. Testosterone in a man
represents ambition, goals, libido, it is what drives us to pursue something, while estrogen deals
with the emotional side of things. A male who acts aggressive actually encourages the
production of testosterone and facilitates the substance to the body creating mass. It is almost
like a transference that takes place in the mind to distribute the testosterone equally as the mind
itself works on a basis of equilibrium. Estrogen is responsible in creating the feeling of empathy
and promotes activities like talking as when somebody is always emotional they feel the need to
get it out and chat. This is why women for the most part say at least twice as many words as men
on a day to day basis, and directly influences how sharp the memory becomes due to the excess
of stimulation being received by all the social activity. When women laugh it creates a spike in
the neurons creating an excess of stimulation keeping everything sharp in the brain. This spike
creates an instant memory and keeps neurons active and close. Now if you compare this activity
to the way men do things, you will find that men are for the most part very linear thinkers, and
for good reason. Since we do not partake on the same level in regards to social activity, our
spatial and memory skills would be sub-par compared to a womens, but there is a trade off,
since our thinking patterns are more goal oriented we end up in specializing in logical oriented
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tasks, and can get very good at linear style thinking as it uses cyclical tendencies to compensate
for subpar memory. Men end up being able to do one thing at a time but very quickly and
efficiently, where women will do many things at once but not as well. In the end we both end at
the same conclusion but take different paths to get there. Testosterone is also the reason why
men end up with bigger brains then women do. Testosterone encourages size, and since a male
naturally produces more, there brain size will also be bigger; this size increase promotes males to
develop very specific tendencies towards inanimate objects that create cyclical thinking.
Tendencies that reflect who we are later on in life that creates our linear style of thinking. By
constantly repeating something males get sharper and stimulate logical thinking, where a baby
girl may concentrate on securing her needs based on how she feels. Testosterone gives us the
confidence to go forth and do stupid things because it is like males seek a thrill to quell the
anxiety build up created by the excess testosterone. Females end up using more of there brain
because the emotional spikes associated with talking and laughter creating a relationship between
emotional neuron imprints. This is why men and women are from two different planets and
conflicts arise. Men for the most part are totally oblivious to the way women feel why women
cant understand why men do stupid things. Yet both testosterone and estrogen hold a very
delicate balance to one another. One wants to dominate while the other one wants to be
dominated which really hold the equivalent of the male pursuing and the female being held, or
goals and feelings, both fulfill a very fundamental goal, the male likes to acquire while the
female likes to be acquired, both provide needed stimulation for the other.

This also explains why females do better on written tests then men do. They simply have
sharper memory skills.

Sexual attraction

The sexual attraction aspect of testosterone and estrogen are also very balanced. When a
person is born, I believe they are born in the middle, neither straight nor gay. When a child hits
puberty this changes as there is an explosion of testosterone/estrogen taking place within the
child allowing him/her to grow. This directs his behavior towards others and they come into
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there own and start perusing the opposite sex based on how they feel, perusing them directly like
a male would or trying to make themselves presentable like a female would. But you have to ask
yourself what happens when a male produces excess estrogen. Well since testosterone and
estrogen holds a balance to each other, one craves the other to be complete. Testosterone
represents the male physic, or size. While estrogen creates delicate features, high voice etc
representing the female. A male who produces an excess amount of estrogen will be engulfed in
feelings of empathy and seek out another male to take care of them since a female will not suit
there needs to do so. This also explains males who have an excess of estrogen take care of there
bodies, go to the gym, many have delicate features and even walk like a female. They are
essentially female on the inside with the male attitude which creates the promiscuous behavior
that is so apparent in the gay community. A female on the other hand who produces excess
testosterone generally feels like a male and would think like a male, end up dressing like a male,
cutting there hair short etc. They just dont feel the same on the inside and their appearance
reflects that, they seek out somebody who they can dominate as well. The closest representation
of that is another female. This is arguable why there is so much conflict in the gay community.
You have two people who want the same thing physically but not emotionally. And celibacy is a
rare thing unless other factors are present to secure the relationship or in other cases keep them
together out of necessity.

Conclusion

Human emotion is not only dictated by how we feel, but also how the brain is made up
and is really a representation of what the brain is trying to accomplish. We are essentially a
product of the overall make up and interaction of neurons. Neurons dictate how we feel and what
we focus on, and is really a product of stimulation in the right areas that utterly define our
cyclical tendencies later on in life. The first five yrs basically sets up what we do later on life and
it is so crucial that we start attending to the fundamentals that affect our outcome as a human
race. If you get the fundamentals right then everything else falls into place and this notion affects
everything in society. There is very little understanding today in how we work on the inside and I
feel a brand new approach has to be taken by not only monitoring the way the brain is used
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through analysis but how humans generally act and why. Simple questions will provide many
answers and help solve the differences between men and women. Its a matter of looking for the
right variables and trying to define them through various means. Science needs to come together
and start combining all the information available, the human body is a complex thing, just like
the diversity in nature and using one approach will not be able to define it as it will only open up
more questions in the process.