Experience has shown us that we can be whatever we want: astronauts, artists, Nobel Prize contenders and even presidents of the Republic. As for the IQ, there’s no difference between men and women.
However, biology has given us a different perspective and some brain differences that raise the question: does the brain have sex?
- Let’s do a simple genetic check: women have the XX chromosome and XY men.
- But it hasn’t always been.
- Until about eight weeks of fetal life.
- We all have female-type brain circuits.
- At this stage.
- The male fetus testicles develop and release large amounts of testosterone.
- Which flood their brain circuits.
- Transforming the female fetus into a male fetus.
- It’s an amazing process.
The adventure of brain sexualization doesn’t end after birth, hormones continue to work until they come up with an interesting process that scientists call ‘child puberty’: boys have an increase in testosterone from birth to seven to nine months, while girls secrete estrogen in the brain. up to two years.
Gradually, brains form and these structural and behavioral differences cannot always be observed by MRI. It can be said that men and women have “material”, which treats information in different ways. The larger male brain solves problems using the temporo-parietal connection system, located in the cerebral cortex, which allows solutions to be found in a faster and more convenient way.
Women develop their emotional intelligence better because their slightly larger hippocampus is a structure that records and stores emotional aspects, and they also have a greater number of mirror neurons for empathy, which results in a more effective empathetic process and more effective communication.
What we are and what we express is not only our brain circuits or the fact that we have a male or female brain, it is true that hormones influence, but we think about creatures and every day we learn more, we are free to feel, reflect, learn and change our behavior.