• is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution.
• thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy.
• has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts.

• experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others’ faces to be more aggressive.

The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.
LOUANN BRIZENDINE, MD, neuropsychiatrist, educator, clinician, writer, is an endowed professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. She is the founder and director of the Women’s and Teen’s Mood and Hormone Clinic and author of The Female Brain and the newly released The Male Brain. She received her BS from the University of California, Berkeley, in Neurobiology, her MD from Yale and residency at Harvard. She has served as faculty at both Harvard and
UCSF.   Available everywhere March 2010.  Pre-order your copy today.

Thank you for visiting my web site. As you can see, we’ve developed a wonderful community of people here who are interested in the female brain, and I have enjoyed blogging and communicating with all of you.

I wanted to let you know, however, that in order to keep the Women’s Mood and Hormone clinic running and meet the deadlines for my next book, “The Male Brain,” which will be published in the spring of 2010, I must scale back some of my time commitments. I am very much looking forward to reconnecting with you this summer, and I promise we’ll be back, energized and ready to expand the conversation.

If you need to submit an interview or public speaking request, please continue to use this site to reach out to me and members of my team. Although I will not be as available as I’d like to be, we will absolutely consider your request and get back to you as soon as we can. In the mean time, visit our blog archives, listen to old Blog Talk Radio shows, and check out the newly launched TeenBrainPower.com. You’ll find plenty of great information there about how your female brain can function at its best.

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Yesterday I visited the Google campus to discuss the book. It’s a long presentation, but check out as much of it as you wish!

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