Blame My Brain by Nicola Morgan

Author:Nicola Morgan [Morgan, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781406351859
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2013-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

What’s going on in the brains of these teenagers?

In some ways, this isn’t only about teenagers. This is about something which we are nowadays allowed to admit – that there are differences between male and female brains. They are differences that can be measured, tested in laboratories and seen on the fMRI scans of average males and females of all ages.

For many years scientists have argued about whether men and women seem different because they were born different or because they have different life experiences and are treated differently from birth. This is the “nature versus nurture” debate.

Until recently most scientists would have sat right on the fence and said that it’s a bit of both and impossible to tell which has more effect. (Though for quite a long time during the twentieth century, most experts believed it was mostly nurture, or society and experience, and that the brains of baby boys and girls were the same.) But the more scientists look at real brains, the more they are inclined to say that there are some distinct differences, many of which can’t be explained simply by what happens to us during our lives. Or whether we were dressed in pink or blue, or given dolls or trucks to play with. It is an inescapable fact that male and female brains are different, biologically and physically.

We’ll look at the differences in a minute, but first a warning: statements about male and female brains are about averages. They do not mean that every male brain behaves in a particular way and every female brain behaves in a different way. There is a great deal of overlap and one important thing to remember is this: if you are a girl and discover that your brain seems to work in a male way, this does not mean that you are less feminine; similarly, a boy whose brain works in a female way is no less masculine than any other. And it’s not about being homosexual or heterosexual either.

So, what are the differences which the teenagers at the start of this chapter were showing? To what extent were the boys being boys and the girls being girls?

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