Thursday, October 27, 2005
Men Vs. Women and the brain ...
Stolen from Tyron
- BBC NEWS | Health: "'The oestrogens are directly affecting the production of the stress peptides.
'So for the same amount of stress in the environment, women are more prone to develop depression than men.'
Others have shown that hormone levels could play a part in multiple sclerosis.
Dr Carlo Pozzilli and colleagues at the University La Sapienza in Italy found that women with MS had lower levels of the male hormone testosterone throughout their monthly cycle compared to women who did not have MS.
Dr Glenda Gillies and colleagues at Imperial College London have been looking at Parkinson's Disease, which is far more common in men than in women.
'The idea is that perhaps oestrogen is being neuroprotective so that the neurones that degenerate in PD don't seem to be as susceptible to the processes in women as they are in men,' she said. "
- Women tend to be better at empathising - guessing other's emotions and responding appropriately
Men are generally better at systemising - investigating how a system works
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