The Female Brain

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her desire to communicate and develop deep relationships with others from an early age. Men have a smaller amount and thus are more secluded and don’t form such intimate bonds with friends as well as women. Progesterone can reverse the effects of Estrogen, but can also cause a calm feeling. Testosterone is the cause of aggressiveness and libido. This fact that nen have twenty-five times more of this hormone explains why men are often more competitive, secluded, and have more carnal desires. Oxytocin is the feel good chemical and has the same effects on women as certain drugs would. It flows when women feel confident, accepted, and safe, keeping them the happy and productive person they are. These four chemicals, as well as many others, flood the brain for the first time in women before age two, at what is known as infantile puberty. They marinate the brain again at regular puberty, which girls reach about 3 years earlier than boys, and continue to change a woman’s daily reality, in ...

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