The Female Brain

By: Louann Brizendine M.D.

Narrated by: Louann Brizendine M.D.

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.

Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love.

While doing research as a medical student at Yale, and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function.

In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all of her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.

The result: women will come away from this audiobook knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.

©2006 Louann Brizendine, M.D. (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"[The book] offers a trove of information, as well as some stunning insights. Though referenced like a work of research, Brizedine's writing style is fully accessible....While this book will be of interest to anyone who wonders why men and women are so different, it will be particularly useful for women and parents of girls." ( Publishers Weekly)

Must read!

I have read this and “The Male Brain” and have taken so much from each of them! The book is packed full of information, well ordered and easy to follow. Narration keeps interest & good pace.

For Many Decades...

Feminism and Marxism preached that there was no such thing as human nature or difference in the genders outside of what the environment determined. Recent brain science has proven that to be incorrect. Brizendine's book is a thorough and scientific explanation of how hormones and brain structures incline a human to have those wonderful and sometimes confounding traits we call "feminine."

Are all women REALLY like this?

First, I would like to comment on the reader/author's reading style. She is VERY soft spoken, almost annoyingly so (at least, in my taste). It makes this book difficult to listen to while driving (granted, my car is noisy). But also, it sounds like the author is reading a story to a child before bed. Her voice is so calm and soothing, it sort of puts you to sleep.

As for the content, I found some of the content to be helpful, but a good majority of it to be annoying and painful to listen to. The author analyzes the female brain from conception, almost, moving on through the stages--infancy, the terrible twos (a term she doesn't use), childhood, the teen years. That's about as far as I've gotten, because, at every stage, this author presents women as if they are purely selfish beings, incapable of doing or thinking anything that isn't all about ME ME ME. I understand that we all have the capability of selfishness, perhaps even that we tend toward it, but I have a hard time believing that we are hard wired toward being selfish, and that every woman is or behaves as this doctor claims she does.

Maybe I've missed something. But, as I'm in the middle of the author's discussion of the teen years, and this teenager she's describing is an absolute hellion, I am having a hard time caring about her or what she is like when, and if, she ever grows up.

A must read(listen) for all women!

Where does The Female Brain rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This book ranked right up towards the top of my favorites list. The downside being that I had to speed up the narrator speed to 2x because the book is read so slow. I'm a medical student and the book gave insights into the real world perception of hormones that was never given in med school. I actually see behavior among men and women a little differently now...we're basically a product of our hormones.

Great listen for women of all ages

Would you consider the audio edition of The Female Brain to be better than the print version?

I haven't seen the print version, but I very much enjoyed the audio book.

What other book might you compare The Female Brain to and why?

Your Brain at Work, and Spark - due to the information about how the brain works along with the biology behind behavior - fascinating.

What does Louann Brizendine bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her own voice is great, and the emphasis of words, etc. comes across clearly.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Female Brains got it going on!

interesting perspective

this book offers an interesting perspective of what's happening in the female brain that makes the female act the way she does. The reader for this audible book was a very very slow reader.

Disappointing

What did you like best about The Female Brain? What did you like least?

I could not get into the book because the author, who is the narrator, has a voice that drove me nuts.

Would you be willing to try another book from Louann Brizendine? Why or why not?

No. Not if she read it. I might be willing to try a hardcopy.

Would you be willing to try another one of Louann Brizendine’s performances?

Absolutely not.

Could you see The Female Brain being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

NA

Worth a listen

I have listened to this book and found it fascinating.I am a man living with two teenage daughters and partner, so life can be tough in this house of girls.If some one creates a hormonal control device that can balance the release of female hormones, they will not only win the Nobel Prize for Science but also the Nobel Peace Prize.They can have my house and i-pad too. Happy days!

Louann reads the book with a lovely warm voice full of sincerity.

I just bought her book on the male brain even though I already know it all!

wow!

This is there really amazing book and really help to open up my eyes on how women think.

everyone should read this book.

I only wish I would have read this book sooner. if your a human please read this book.