In this elephant-themed episode, Headshake’s male and female hosts talk about whether or not there are differences in the brain between the sexes. If there are, how do they get there, and do they even matter?

Key Words

ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, behavior, conduct disorder, corpus callosum, development, eating disorders, environmental, frontal lobe, gender, generalized anxiety disorder, genes, hormones, hypothalamus, innate, intersex, major depression disorder, parietal lobe, phrenology, plasticity, sex, social

Old West Words of the Day (Gap Junction Almanac)

shote

skittles

slamgander

slantindicular

see the elephant

saltwater vegetables

References and Resources

• Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s and men’s brains, despite over a century of searching, The Conversation, August 6, 2020
• Neuroscience and Sex/Gender: Looking Back and Forward, The Journal of Neuroscience, January 2, 2020

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Music

Bushwick Tarantella by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300002

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