Neuroplasticity

The female brain is geared for complex thinking and reasoning, weighing all their options, carefully and thoroughly as discussed in my last blog. It can also be concluded that where women look for and remember context, men look for and remember factual content.
I’m very interested about the relatively new branch of neuroscience called Neuroplasticity, which studies how we take the brain we were born with and grow and change it throughout our lifetime, even in old age. When we studied the brain in our youth this was thought to be impossible.

Research in Neuroplasticity shows that the brain is capable of change as a result of experience.
UCLA Med School, Clinical Prof of Psychiatry, Daniel J. Siegel, MD, writes that the brain/body is the “Physical structure and mechanisms for the flow of information and energy throughout the system”. And he defines the mind relative to the brain, within the context of relationship with others and the outer world. He says that the mind is “Embodied and embedded within a relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information”.

In 2001 Leslie Brothers, PhD, in agreement with Siegel, says that “Our ‘neural machinery’ enables participation”

In summary Segal says that not only does the brain change the mind but the mind also changes the brain.

I look forward to interacting with you. Please share your thoughts, comments and ideas with me.

Best Regards

Mary

Neurobiology – The Big Differences

In my previous blog post I explained in short that neuroscientists have found that the 8% difference between the male and female brain has already generated over 100 differences with this number still growing as more and more research is done.

It goes without saying that after 1000s of years of evolution, the male neurobiology was naturally adapted to hunting, farming, protecting and building, in essence, an outdoor way of thinking. As a result men have only ‘come indoors’, so to speak, en masse since the Industrial Revolution (1780 in Europe, 1860 in South Africa), but this change in the course of evolution is not a long time period.

The history of female neurobiology is therefore naturally adapted to nurturing, educating and managing people and processes; these are the things that women continue to do at home or in the workplace.

Please do get involved, share your thoughts, comments and ideas with me. I look forward to hearing your ideas and interacting with you.

Best Regards

Mary

Brain Exchange Solutions

As many of you may know the focus of my attention over the past five years has been my fascination of the brain with particular emphasis regarding the differences between the male and female brain.

While writing my thesis for my Mphil at the University of Stellenbosch Business School I have been keeping updated as to the latest research in neuroplasticity and how you can change the way that you think and act for yourself and support that change in others.

What I have found is that there are clear gender distinctions, 92% of the brain is the same in both males and females, but the remaining 8% makes all the difference! Men and women think and make decisions, process feelings and relate differently. ‘Sex differences’ in the brain are genetic while gender roles and behaviors may be influenced by cultural distinctions.  I feel that all of our societal institutions need to be adjusted to take these sex differences into consideration.

My research will aid others in understanding how to work and be with other people of the same and opposite sex whether it’s for coaching, in business environments or even for personal relationships.

Please feel free to get involved, share your thoughts, comments and ideas with me. I look forward to interacting with you.

Best Regards

Mary