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[Discussion] "The Male Brain" by Neuroscientist Foid
Recently I took notice of this neuroscientist foid (Louann Brizendine) and I read one of her books called "The Male Brain", I'm starting to read/haven't finished reading "The Female Brian" but there was a few interesting bits I found in male brain book I'll share some of them that mostly relate...

Step forward Louann Brizendine, director of the University of California–San Francisco Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic. Her book, The Female Brain, cites literally hundreds of academic articles. To the unwary reader, both she and the book seem reliable and authoritative. And yet, as a review of the book in Nature comments, ‘despite the author’s extensive academic credentials, The Female Brain disappointingly fails to meet even the most basic standards ofscientific accuracy and balance. The book is riddled with scientific errors and is misleading about the processes of brain development, the neuroendocrine system, and the nature of sex differences in general.’ There viewers later go on to say that, ‘[t]he text is rife with “facts” that do not exist in the supporting references.
- Delusions of Gender by Cordelia FineThis is a common discovery made by people who take the time to fact-check Brizendine’s claims. Mark Liberman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania with no special interest in gender issues, has nonetheless been provoked to provide many detailed but humorous critiques of pseudoscientific claims about gender differences on his online Language Log. His patient corrections of Brizendine’s many false assertions about sex differences in communication is a chore that, as he puts it, ‘is starting to make me feel like the circus clown that follows the elephantaround the ring with a shovel.
I decieved you guys, I'm sorry. It took some time to have the motivation to write this thread... on my old thread but here we are and I usually do these in one go so yeah.
The seductive allure of neuroscience as cordelia puts it is very tempting to fall into, For example in the quotes I used the author points out that all the claims behind what "The Male/Female Brain" are based on a whole bunch of different and contested claims about how the human brain works and processes the external world. This leads us down a whole rabbithole where such as whether you can even pinpoint any specific brain areas as "causing" a specific effect in the human body like in my thread:
MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA (MPOA): This is the area for sexual pursuit, found in the hypothalamus, and it is 2.5 times larger in the male. Men need it to start an erection.
How do we even pinpoint THIS MPOA BRAIN AREA IS FOR SEX, AND SINCE 2.5 BIGGER IN MAN THEN MAN MORE SEXUAL (non sequitur)
It's the same shit with ADHD (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9811381/) the idea that you can do the same by isolating and analyzing specific brain regions is scientific dogma at this point. In the case of ADHD some propose that specific brain regions like the ones in the frontal lobe and "imbalances" in them are behind ADHD. And there's like 5 conceptual models and and all are critiqued by other researchers and this shit is packaged to the public like there's a clear science of ADHD but yeah I digress
That's it from me, I recommend looking into that paper for more info on people like Barkley, Fuster, Faraone etc and also this article seems interesting:
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