Brain and Gender

Nature created humanity whereas it basiclly created humanity as two genderes , these are male and female. However, males and females are different from each other. One person, who looks human body from outside, sees some differences. Even if male and female body seems like same, in fact there are no resemblances between man and women body’s some parts. One of these parts which is not resemblance each other, is brain.  Differences in brain effect human life from many aspects such as social life, medicine. In generally, structural and reactional differences play a very important role to be understood of differences between men and women’s brain by everyone.

First of all, structural differences in women and men brain influence some aspects such as mathematic ability and language due to hemisphere variety.  Some differences are seen between structures of gender’s hemispheres. Firstly, it affects mathematic ability. Left side of hemisphere is control center of mathematical ability and problem-solving and this section of the brain is used differently by man and woman. Source of this difference is brain size. Men’s left hemisphere is larger than woman’s left hemisphere. Therefore, men tend to use more mathematical ability than women. For example, Einstein who is groundbreaking person for science world has ability to use mathematical amazingly because the research shows that Einstein’s left side is abnormally large. Secondly, it affects language ability. Two hemispheres of brain are utilized for language. Men only process language in their dominant hemispheres but women process language in both hemispheres. That is, woman learns a foreign language faster than man. In conclusion, mathematic ability and language play important role to prove structural differences between men and women brain.

Reactions differences in men and women brain influence some behavioral ways against pain and stress owing to hormones and amygdala. Hormones and chemicals which are produced by women and men are not same and even if some hormones are same, these hormones are secreted in different rate in women and men’s body. Therefore, some problems occur in body differently. Firstly, different reactions which are rooted in hormones in the face of stress are sees. Hormone of stress is secreted in everyone, this hormone is called oxytocin. Estrogen which is secreted hormone by women’s brain increases an oxytocin resulting, testosterone hormone which is produced by men’s brain, decrease effect of oxytocin. Therefore, men show aggressive behaves in the face of stress while women approach as befriend to stress. Secondly, amygdala which effect sense of pain provide to be feels pain differently by women and men. Amygdala is activated during pain and while right side of amygdale is activated in man, left side of amygdale is activated in women. Task of right side is about external functions but task of left side is about internal functions. Therefore, women more feel pain than men. Medicine produces a lot of painkiller for this cause. In conclusion, pain and stress play important role in order to exhibit reactions differences between men and women’s brain.

To sum up, Women and men are not same and some variety exists between both them. Differences in brain which effect human lives from many aspects such as social life, medicine are structural and reactions differences. Structural variety effects mathematical ability and language because of difference hemisphere. Reaction variety affects to behave in the face of pain and stress due to hormones and some part of brain. In my opinion, men and women always have been different whereas if these differences did not exist, women and men would not learn to live together.  Difference is beatiful.

 Hasan Zafer