Question

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Are men and women, or old and young, destined to behave differently because of differences in their brains?

Answer 1

Some behavioral differences among men and women or old and young may be attributed to differences in their brain but most of the differences cannot be assigned to brain structure alone.

Women have a larger hippocampus, (human memory center) and higher density of neural connections into the hippocampus because of which they absorb more sensorial and emotive information than men do.

Women have verbal centers on both sides of the brain, while males usually have this only on the left hemisphere. This is the reason that women tends to use more words when discussing or describing incidence, story, person, object, feeling, or place. Men have fewer verbal centers in general as well as have less connectivity between word centers and their memories / feelings. Girls tend to have more interest in talking about feelings and emotions.

Male brains utilize nearly seven times more gray matter for activity while female brains utilize nearly ten times more white matter. The gray-white matter difference can explain women being great multi-taskers, while men perform better in highly task-focused projects.

Men and women brains process neurochemicals but to different degrees and because of this difference, men tend to be less inclined to sit still for as long as women and tend to be more physically impulsive and aggressive.

The older adults rely on different cortical networks to perceive emotional facial expressions than do the young ones.

Older people have some hippocampal distortion that leads to problem of dementia and memory loss.

However , these differences are not the sole reason for different behavior between young and old or men and women.