A wide-ranging study of about 5216 brains, published in a specialized American journal, revealed differences between men's and women's brains, which may be related to social and other skills.
This study showed that women have more brain connectors within the cerebral cortex than men, which become active when other areas of the brain are in a relaxed state and interfere with a network of other areas that help communicate with others and understand them through visual communication, facial expressions and tone of voice.
Although communities are skeptical about studies that adopt stereotypes of female and male behavior, thousands of years of affirmation that females are especially good at nurturing, caring and socializing with others, according to a report in the journal Psychological Today.
However, there are gender differences with regard to mental disorders, which encouraged the authors of this study to investigate the effects of the sex of the person on the conductors of the brain using the latest methods.
Previous studies on the subject have been criticized for the small number of samples studied and for younger people. The study by Stewart Richie and his colleagues included larger samples of people over the age of 44.
The conductors have been analyzed between the regions of the brain through the use of the modern method known as "neural dispersion and axial density scattering", measures that can provide new information about the formation of white matter in the brain.
The large number of brain conductors that transmit nerve signals faster can be likened to a set of lollipops that quickly speed up a gas drink.
This is an example of gender differences, but the authors of the study are still cautious in their interpretations, pointing to a large gender similarity of up to 50 percent.
The authors of the study confirm that there was a similarity between males and females in measurements, which scientists attribute to the effects of education, upbringing and social factors.
Recent evidence shows that the practices of musicians and patients in physiotherapy can affect brain conductors, and one may conclude that other types of intensive intellectual practices, similar to those of social skills, may also strengthen pre-existing links in the nervous system.
In a previous study on brain conductors, conducted on 949 young people between the ages of 8 and 21, Dr. Rajini Verma and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine compared gender conductors. They used the MRI method of the diffusion coefficient to analyze the bond.
They found in the brains of women many connectors between the right hemisphere (which is thought to produce superiority in the detection and expression of social information) and the left cerebral hemisphere (which is more important for understanding and speaking words). The female brain sample showed greater interconnectivity between the two sides of the brain, allowing the two halves to communicate more easily.
A study published in 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of American Sciences found that gender differences were more pronounced in adolescents than in younger children, indicating the effect of puberty on brain growth. In this study, women performed better in terms of face recognition and performance of social tasks.
The authors pointed out that the conductors in the male brain sample appeared to be more pronounced in the front and back of the hemispheres. This includes the frontal cortex region at the front, which plays a role in the planning and implementation of a range of tasks, the sensory sensory area near the middle region, and the visual cortex located at the back of the brain.