Debunking common myths about our brains 04:19. The brain is central to our health and sense of self, but when it comes to how it works, there is still much to be understood.

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 ...

Along with just about every other aspect of real or imagined differences between the sexes, the idea that your biological sex will determine the sex of your brain—and so your behaviour ...

Myth #1: Women’s brains are more balanced. "It is true that men use one side of their brain to listen while women use both sides," says the Suite 101 website, with misplaced confidence. This is ...

The best established structural difference between male and female brains is the average difference in whole-brain volume.

There’s no such thing as a distinctly male or female brain, new research suggests. An analysis of more than 1,400 MRI scans suggests that biologically unmistakable sex differences don’t extend ...

The researchers combed through more than 1,400 magnetic resonance images (MRI) from multiple studies of male and female brains, focusing on regions with the largest gender differences. In the ...

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 of Phineas ...

Men aren't from Mars and women aren't from Venus, but their brains really are wired differently, a new study suggests. The research, which involved imaging the brains of nearly 1,000 adolescents ...

Scientists have long sought to reconcile whether male and female brains are comparable, which has implications for how we understand brain organization and operation.