Men and women may be wired to behave differently

Men and women may be wired to behave differently
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Male and female behavioural differences correlate with their different brain networks, say researchers, including one of Indian origin. Structural differences in the brain may relate to male and female behaviour differences such as men being more likely to be better at learning and performing a single task at hand and women being more likely to exhibit superior memory and social cognition skills,

New York: Male and female behavioural differences correlate with their different brain networks, say researchers, including one of Indian origin. Structural differences in the brain may relate to male and female behaviour differences such as men being more likely to be better at learning and performing a single task at hand and women being more likely to exhibit superior memory and social cognition skills, the study said.

Insight into brain differences between men and women offers important considerations for the growing field of personalised medicine, the study pointed out. The findings also have potential implications for treatment of a variety of conditions.

Differences in the cause and progression of some diseases and disorders according to sex sometimes influence treatment of those conditions. For instance, men are far more likely to get autism than women are.

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