Men and women may be wired to behave differently: Study
IANS | Feb 10, 2016, 03.47 PM IST
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
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Nov 25, 2012
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
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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.'
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Amusing communication differences between men and women.
- Bathrooms
- Eating out
- Nicknames
- Cats
- Future
- Success
- Marriage
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.]
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.
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].
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about
the future until he gets a wife.
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.
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.
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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.
- 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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How To Show a Girl a Good Time
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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