{"id":468,"date":"2008-09-27T18:05:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-11-30T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T13:38:18","slug":"brain-rules-chapter-11-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Brain Rules: Chapter 11 Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rule #11 Male and female brains are different.<\/p>\n<p>This must have been delicate chapter for John Medina to right. Some time political correctness can run amok.  Men and women are physically different, would it not make sense that are brains and therefore brain function might also be different.  Add to this the idea of nature verses nurture and the subject of gender and learning can get pretty complex.<\/p>\n<p>What is known is the men and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brains have different structures, men have a larger amygdala then women.  The amygdala is responsible for emotions, their creation and memory. Men tend to remember the gist of an event and women tend to remember the emotional details. Men and women have differences in the front and pre-frontal cortex this area is responsible for decision making.<\/p>\n<p>I found the sections on communication and relationships interesting. There are documented differences between men and women. However the role of nurture may play a bigger part then nature. This chapter is worth a re-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule #11 Male and female brains are different. This must have been delicate chapter for John Medina to right. Some time political correctness can run amok. Men and women are physically different, would it not make sense that are brains and therefore brain function might also be different. Add to this the idea of nature verses nurture and the subject of gender and learning can get pretty complex. What is known is the men and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brains have different structures,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=468\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,27],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}