Male brain, female brain: the hidden difference.
The theory that male and female brains differ in their organization is nothing new, but it wasn't until the 1960s and 1970s that experiments began to point out some of these differences. Initially, neurologists believed that women's brains were more diffusely organized than men's brains, but this c...
| Published in: | Psychology Today Vol. 19; p. 50 |
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Sussex Publishers Inc.
November 1985
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