Men and women may be wired to behave differently: Study

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• Differences in the cause and progression of some diseases and disorders according to sex sometimes influence treatment of those conditions.

Men and women may be wired to behave differently: Study (Getty Images)ructural differences in the brain may relate to male and female behaviour differences such as men being more likely to be better at learning and performing a single task at hand and women being more likely to exhibit superior memory and social cognition skills, the study said.

Our results suggest a synchrony between sex-related differences in the brain network and behaviour," said senior study author Ragini Verma, associate professor at Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania in the US.

The findings were published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Insight into brain differences between men and women offers important considerations for the growing field of personalized medicine, the study pointed out.

The findings also have potential implications for treatment of a variety of conditions.

Differences in the cause and progression of some diseases and disorders according to sex sometimes influence treatment of those conditions. For instance, men are far more likely to get autism than women are.

For the study, the researchers performed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) brain scans and administered a computerised neurocognitive battery (CNB) of tests on 900 randomly selected healthy and unmedicated children and young adults between ages eight and 22 years.

These methods allowed the team to develop a structural connectome, akin to a road map of each participant's brain.

According to findings of the team, stronger structural connectivity in motor, sensory, and executive functions matched higher motor and spatial skills in males.

In females, subnetworks associated with social cognition, attention and memory tasks had higher connectivity and matched improved memory and social cognition skills.

Viva La Difference

09/25/2012 01:23 pm ET | Updated Nov 25, 2012

Laverne H. Bardy Author, Syndicated Humor Columnist, blogger

There are those who insist that men and women are alike, but I've lived long enough to know with certainty that they are not.
To start, men and women argue differently. If a woman is angry at her girlfriend she chooses her words carefully, and bends over backwards to avoid hurting her friend's feelings. But if their argument escalates to screaming or crying, they both know, without doubt, that the relationship is over, and forgiveness is not even an option.
Men, on the other hand, become provoked into arguing at the drop of a Frito. Playful rough-housing can escalate to shoving and punches, which often leads to name calling, such as Idiot, Lame-brain, Fatso and worse. Then they sit down, throw back a few beers, watch a ball game on TV and don't even remember that only seconds ago they were fighting.
Women don't get it.
I marvel when I watch men in a restaurant. The check comes, one of them looks at it and reports the total. Then they each reach into their pocket, toss a fist full of bills onto the table, get up and leave. Not one of them pauses to see whether or not they've left too much or even enough.
Women, on the other hand, know in advance that the bill will be split evenly. When the check comes the woman with the best math skills spends fifteen minutes, with paper and pen, calculating the total, tip included, after which each woman discusses who's paying cash, who's using their credit card and who definitely doesn't mind leaving the extra nickle toward the tip.
And driving? Men get nervous every time a woman's hand leaves the wheel to apply lipstick or search for tissues in her purse. But when a man's behind the wheel, he sees nothing wrong with reaching into the back seat for a map, programing his cell phone or inspecting nose hairs in the visor mirror while traveling 75 mph on the New Jersey Turnpike.
A man will refer to a women as a pack rat because she is emotionally attached to things, such as her childhood collection of Barbie dolls, Valentines she received in grammar school and every book and magazine she's ever read. Barely a week passes without him pressing for her to get rid of her dust collectors to free up space in the house.
But a man views his own accumulation of stuff as important and necessary. He has an endless assortment of hammers, screw drivers, batteries, drill tips, and battery chargers, three shoe boxes of screws, nuts, nails and bolts, and a collection of obsolete Pac-Man, Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong video games. There's also a piece-of-junk car, on blocks, that he's going to make run again one day, and enough cardboard to house 97 homeless people on the streets of Manhattan.

A man will spend hours marveling at the wonders of his incredibly expensive, highly technical camera and gloat over its countless capabilities and the exquisitely beautiful photographs it produces. A woman will drive to the nearest market, purchase an eight dollar disposable camera, take pictures, and be perfectly happy with the results.
A man can be ready to travel even before he even knows the destination. He rolls up a pair of dress slacks, a pair of jeans, four shirts, underwear, socks, a razor and a toothbrush. He only needs the shoes he's wearing.
A woman must try on every piece of clothing in her closet to see what still fits. She feels the need to be prepared with sandals, pumps, beach shoes, walking shoes, dancing shoes, hair dryer, curling iron, underwear, a lifetime supply of hair spray, mousse, gel and makeup, a different outfit and matching sweaters for every day she'll be away. When she returns home, three quarters of what she brought with her will not have been touched.
A man and woman go on a date. At the end of the evening he says he'll call her. She thinks he means tomorrow. What he actually means is, before he dies.

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Funny Differences Between Genders

The Differences Between Genders

Will and Guy have discovered that the difference between men and women is not only physiological; there are many other gender differences and several of them are amusing. We say, 'Vive la différence.'

7 Funny Gender Differences in Relationships

Amusing communication differences between men and women.

1) Bathrooms:

A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from Tesco.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. [A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.]

2) Eating out:

When the bill arrives, Russell, John and Trevor will each throw in £20, even though it's only for £32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3) Nicknames:

If Claire, Louise and Hannah go out for lunch, they will call each other Claire, Louise and Hannah.
If Russell, John and Trevor go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Jackson, Parrot-face and TC [Top Cat - from the 1970's television cartoon series].

4) Cats:

Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

5) Future:

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

6) Success:

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

7) Marriage:

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

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Thought for Today:

What do men and beer bottles have in common?
They are both empty from the neck up.

Arguments:
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

True Mates - Gender Differences

Julie didn't come home one night. When Tom asked her where she'd been she said she spent the night at a girl friend's house.
Tom was a bit suspicious she'd been "rooting around" so rang her ten closest friends, but none of them had seen her.
The following week Tom didn't come home one night. Julie asks him where he'd been. So Tom says he got a bit drunk at a mate's place and thought it was safer not to drive but crash out there.
Julie thinks he's been "rooting around" so rings his ten best mates.
In true male style - eight of them say he spent the night there and two claim he's still there.

Men and Women Shopping!

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The Difference Between Genders

It's fascinating to see communication differences between men and women. Incidentally, the correct word here is indeed gender, this has everything to do with masculinity and femininity and nothing to do with sex.

10 Recommendations Made By Men to Women

Don't tell anyone we can't afford a new car. Tell them we don't want one.
Please don't drive when you're not driving.
When the waiter asks if everything's okay, a simple 'Yes' is fine.
What do you mean, "leering?" She's obstructing my view.
When I'm turning the wheel and the car is heading for the slip road, saying, 'Oh, this is our exit, dearest,' is not really necessary.
When you're not around, I belch so loudly that I even appal myself.
"Sports Report" starts at 5pm on a Saturday and runs for one hour. This is an excellent time for you to pay bills, put laundry in the dryer, or talk to your mother.
If we see each other in the morning and at night, why phone me at work?
You probably don't want to know what I'm thinking about.
Never buy a "new" brand of beer because 'it was on sale.'

Dress Sense - Polarises Gender Differences

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings, funerals.

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More Amusing Gender Observations and Jokes
Have a Laugh with Will and Guy - or at Least a Smile

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To impress his date, Randy, a young man, took her to a very posh Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village.
After sipping some fine wine, he picked up the menu and ordered. 'We'll have the Giuseppe Spomdalucci,' he said.
'Sorry, sir,' said the waiter. 'That's the owner.'

What Price A Good Woman?

In East Windsor Hospital in Connecticut, USA, the relatives gathered in the waiting room as their family member lay gravely ill.
Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and sombre. 'I'm afraid I am the bearer of bad news,' he said as he surveyed the worried faces, 'The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, semi-risky, and you will have to pay for the brain yourselves.'
The family members sat silently as they absorbed the news. After a few minutes, one asked, 'Well, how much does a brain cost?'
The doctor responded quickly, '$50,000 for a male brain, and $2,000 for a female brain.' [£32,500 GBP - £13000 GBP]
The moment turned awkward. The men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. One man, unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask, 'Why is the male brain so much more than the female brain?'
The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and then replied to the entire group, 'It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've been used.'

Memory Tests

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports because they've already forgotten what happened.
Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favourite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some small people living in the house.
If your wife and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie?

Book of the Week:

My wife suggested that a good book for me to read to enhance our relationship. The title is, "Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong."

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How To Help Around The House

Philip was enjoying the second week of a two-week vacation the same way he had enjoyed the first week: by doing as little as possible.
He ignored his wife Paula's not-so-subtle hints about completing certain jobs around the house, but Philip didn't realize how much this bothered her until the clothes dryer refused to work, the iron shorted and the sewing machine motor burned out in the middle of a seam. The final straw came when she plugged in the vacuum cleaner and nothing happened.
Paula looked so stricken that I had to offer some consolation.
'That's OK, darling,' Philip said. 'You still have me.'
Paula looked up at him with tears in her eyes. 'Yes, Philip,' she wailed, 'but you don't work either.'

How To Show Consideration For The Good Woman

Two married friends, Ross and Allan went on a drinking binge together and Ross started his tale of woe.
He said, 'Whenever I go home late at night after spending some time with my friends at a bar, I turn the headlights and engine off before and coast the car in my garage very, very silently. I sneak up the stairs only after taking off my shoes and ease very slowly in bed. Still, my wife wakes up and all hell breaks loose as she starts shouting g at me for drinking and for being out so late.'
Allan gave Ross a long meaningful stare, shook his head, and commented, 'Mate, try my method. I screech into the driveway, slam all doors noisily, storm up the steps, throw my clothes and shoes all over the place as I undress and then jump into the bed and............my wife is always sound asleep.'

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