During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading from the Gender chapter of John Medina’s Brain Rules. Also, write about how what Medina tells us corresponds with Gottschall and your own experiences. However, you have to beware of stereotypes or lore that figure into your thinking.
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While reading John Medina’s, Brain Rules, the Gender chapter discusses the differences in a male and female characteristics. What’s different? Well, males are more severely afflicted by delusions than females are. More than 2 to 1 women are more likely to get depressed than men, a figure that shows up after puberty and remains stable for the next 50 years. Males exhibit more antisocial behavior while females have more anxiety. Most alcoholics and drug addicts are male. Most anorexics are female. Men and women handle acute stress differently because when researcher Larry Cahill showed them slasher films, the men fired up the amygdale in their brain’s right hemisphere, which is responsible for the summary of an event while their left was comparatively silent. The women lit up their left amygdala, the one responsible for details. Medina also mentions how men and women process certain emotions differently. Emotions are useful and they make the brain pay attention. These differences are a product of complex interactions between nature and nurture in which professor Ellis has stated in the class on Monday.
In John Medina’s, “Brain Rules, Gender,” Medina discusses how different our brains work, mentally and biological due to our gender which brings us to “Brain Rule #11- Male and female brains are different.” Biologically, our genetic material determines if we become male or female. Females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and Y chromosome. The X chromosome in both genders is a main component involved in how the brain is assembled. In females, the majority of their active X chromosomes are a random mix of both parents, making them a more complex species. In males, their X chromosomes only come from the mother, leaving them with a significantly less amount of genes than females. Medina discusses the differences of the brain’s structure based on gender. Females’ frontal cortex is fatter and more complex which controls our decision making. Males’ amygdala is larger which gives them a ray of emotions and the ability to remember them. The hippocampus is larger and faster in females which help converts short term memory to long term memory. Males’ serotonin production is also larger and faster which helps in regulating emotions and mood. Mentally, brain disorders are not created equal amongst the genders. Both genders respond to stress differently. Females are more likely to deal with post traumatic stress disorder and anorexia which males are likely to be affected by attention deficit disorder and addiction. Gottschall has talked the nature versus nurture affect amongst boys and girls and pretend play. I believe our brains are different and to some extent stereotypes amongst the genders have some truth.
The Chapter “Gender” by John Medina talks about the properties of the difference between males, and females. He explains what genes are and the composition needed to make a male or a female baby. Male babies require X and Y chromosome, while Females only require two X chromosomes. It makes making a male baby, much harder, because of the needed X chromosome needed to require all 1500 genes to work. The brain functionality is different in many circumstances. The females, amygdala which controls the memory, and emotions, is much more potent than the males. Females can remember more emotions, and males can remember only parts of the same memory. When accessing these memories, the females amygdala lights up in the right and the opposite to males.
Even though we are all humans when it comes to gender Females and Males are nowhere to be the same in many different ways. In John Medinas book Brain Rules in the chapter “Gender” he discusses how females and males brain work differently from each other. Males are more severely afflicted by schizophrenia than females. By more than 2 to 1, women are more likely to get depressed than men. Females are very emotional so they feel everything very differently rather than men. There has been this quote that “Females think with their heart while men think with their brains” quoted by anonyms. I believe in that quote because I have seen whenever there is a situation most females would give the reaction of crying before thinking of the solution but men would try to think of overcoming the problem. It’s not that they are not worried but that’s how their brains function. Not only mentally they are different but physically as well. Males exhibit more antisocial behavior and females have more anxiety. Also another fact to be stated that the majority of alcoholics and drug addicts are male while most anorexics are female. So this states that men are more afflicted by addiction and attention-deficit disorder while women have high tendencies of post-traumas stress disorder. Stereotypically, females are portrayed as more nurturing and empathetic, while males are portrayed as less emotional and more cognitive
In “gender” chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rule, Medina talks about difference in gender and how different genders react in different situations. He talks about how brain in male works different than the brain in female , they react different at the same time on the same subject according to the experiences they have in their lives and how their brain develops, Like professor mentioned in the class that it is good to work with the opposite gender with different mentality than you because you not have the capability to understand the some stuff at the time that they do understand, It is all because of the life experiences they had in life and the way their brain was developed in that atmosphere. It is medically proved that it depends on our genetics material to determine if the baby will be boy or girl. Females have two X chromosomes and males have one X and one Y chromosome. In other words gender of baby depends on the mother because female have more genes as compare to males. Medina also includes that that both genders responds differently in stress, and female can remember things more better than males. And females are more emotional as compare to males.
According to John Medina’s chapter “Gender”, men and women brain are physically and mentally different. Women tend to have more structures in their brain because they inheritate from both mother and father while men just inheritate from their mother. Medina also talked about how women are more emotional than men. Women activate their left hemisphere amygdala and remember the emotional details of a story or event where as Men just use their right amygdala to get an understanding of the story or event. Men and women deal differently with stress. When stressed out, Women tend to have more anxiety while men tend to be calmer and think about the solution rather than the problem itself.
In this chapter, John Medina talks about gender and how it takes a role in how an individual reacts in certain situations. Females have both X chromosomes while a male carries and X and Y. Females generally remember the more emotional details while males have trouble remembering a certain situation perfectly compared to a female. Females and males will respond differently in situations, whether that situation is the same or different. They will understand the same material differently because they pay attention to different points.
Gender plays a big role in everyday life. How would a man react towards this situation compared to a woman ? Why can’t a woman do this just because she is a women ? The argument between genders is an ongoing problem that will never be solved. Whether it’s true that men are better drivers than women or women can remain more calm in more situations than men there are undisputable facts about being a man or a woman, excluding physical appearance of course. In John Medina’s chapter about gender he speaks about the differences on how different genders react to certain situations. For starters the females carry both X chromosomes while a male carries just one X chromosome and Y chromosome. This makes a female much more genetically complex compares to the male. The X chromosomes carries traits from both the mother and father while for men the Y chromosome carries less than 100 genes. The structure of the males and females brain also differ, the females being larger because of inheriting from both the mom and dad, but this fact doesn’t actually prove much. The way women deal with emotional stress is by using the left hemisphere’s amygdala which helps them remember the emotional detail while men use the right to just get an understanding of it. This may be why women are so complicated….