Fetus Brain Development
In The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine claims that all baby brains start out female - but then in a male brain along comes that nasty hormone Testosterone, and it begins to damage the brain. It then "turns" the brain into a male brain by chipping away at its full functionality.
Unfortunately, research does not show this to be true. All baby brains start out NEUTRAL, in a blank state stage. Studies with mice (since it's generally unethical to experiment with human embryos ;) ) show that there are already changes happening in the fetal brain BEFORE the testes are forming, before hormones are flowing.
To learn more about this path, here's a 2004 article on Nature, on brain development:
Nature - Brain Development
A gene "Sry" on males (the Y chromosome) begins testes growing, which then sends out the male hormones. Researchers used to think that Sry alone was in charge of everything. That men who had Sry removed "stayed" female - and that females who had Sry added "turned" male. However, that's not the whole story. Research has shown that other factors are involved.
A key result of this is transsexualism - people who are physically one sex but mentally the other.
In another interesting study in Endojournals.org -
Endojournals - Transsexuals
"The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of females (19.6 ± 3.3 x 103) (P = 0.83)"
The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine
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