The Female Brain film (2018) and 2 Shrinks

Comedian Whitney Cummings put her research into a movie, sprinkled her comic wit into the movie and created The Female Brain. Courtney & Dr. Mullen dissect the views of this film, and give our perspective from a personal and professional perspective. Get it on Amazon: The Female Brain is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Whitney Cummings and written by Neal Brennan and Cummings. It is based on the 2006 book The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine . The film stars Cummings, Sofía Vergara , Toby Kebbell , James Marsden , Lucy Punch , Beanie Feldstein and Cecily Strong . Dr. Colleen Mullen Courtney Calkins - QuadFather Website Twitter link: Bigger Brains? When the researchers adjusted the numbers to look at the subcortical regions relative to overall brain size, the comparisons became much closer: There were only 14 regions where men had higher brain volume and 10 regions where women did. Different brains? How are male and female brains different? Women's reading comprehension and writing ability consistently exceed that of men, on average. They out­perform men in tests of fine-motor coordination and perceptual speed. They're more adept at retrieving information from long-term memory. Men, on average, can more easily juggle items in working memory. They have superior visuospatial skills: They're better at visualizing what happens when a complicated two- or three-dimensional shape is rotated in space, at correctly determining angles from the horizontal, at tracking moving objects and at aiming projectiles. THERE ARE DEBATES AMONG SCIENTISTS THAT THERE IS NO BRAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE _________

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The Female Brain film (2018) and 2 Shrinks is an episode from Shrink2Shrink's podcast by Courtney Calkins.

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This episode was published on Jan 20, 2019.

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