My son Malcolm thinks I’ve become a science nerd. He teases me because I can’t stop reading books about the brain and I talk about neuroscience all the time. But I can’t help it! Because of the research I’ve done for the Brain Chemistry For Lovers show, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into the rapidly evolving world of neuroscience.
And what a world it is! Because of the latest advances in brain scanning technology, scientists can now look inside the brain and get a more complete picture of who we are and what makes us tick. Discoveries are being made every day that help to answer some of the questions that we humans have been asking for centuries. Questions like…
Who are we? Why are we the same yet different? Is it nature or nurture that ultimately shapes us as humans? And then there are the more pressing questions like….why doesn’t he ever put the toilet seat down? Why does she always nag about the dishes? and…why oh why can’t he find stuff in the refrigerator when it’s staring him in the face?
Ok – maybe those last few questions aren’t exactly earth shattering, but they do end up leading us to THE all encompassing question…what makes women and men so different from each other?
One book that helped to answer some of those questions for me (and that I still think about when faced with that open toilet seat) is called:
The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
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