After every argument a woman complains that man was not listening to her thats why he doesnt remember anything clearly. And a man is usually tired of a woman’s memory because she has recorded details of all the previous events, conversations and arguments. This difference in the memory of two genders has a scientific explanation…
Men and women are different in every system of the body, and nowhere is this more true than in the brain,” says Marianne J. Legato, MD, founder of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. Because of a higher rate of blood flow to certain parts of the brain (including those that control language) as well as higher concentrations of estrogen, women’s memories have been shown to be superior to men’s in a couple of key areas.
• Every spoken word is recorded more clearly in a woman’s brain. “This includes stories read aloud from books, as well as verbal arguments,” says Dr. Legato, author of Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget. These things become more firmly fixed in women’s memories, are better “packaged” and can be recalled more easily later, again thanks to enhanced blood flow to the brain.
•Women appear to concentrate various aspects of emotional memories in
the same part of the brain, allowing them to remember emotional events, unpleasant, frightening or stressful experiences more intensely than men. Estrogen activates a larger field of neurons in women’s brains during an upsetting experience, explains Dr. Legato, so they experience the stress in greater and more precise detail. “Simply remembering an unpleasant incident can bring back the same terrible sadness and agitation to women that they experienced at the time,” adds Dr. Legato. On the plus side: Women may be better eyewitnesses at crime and accident scenes.
Another interesting piece of information is that “Men’s brains shrink more with age than women’s. According to C. Edward Coffey, M.D., chair of Henry Ford’s department of Referral psychiatry, “We found that age-related shrinkage was greater for men in three regions of the brain that are involved in thinking, planning and experience memory”. This could explain why males are more prone to age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and memory loss.”
glad to know that;)….a new French study shows caffeine in three daily cups of coffee or tea may help older women preserve their memory…The biggest benefit was seen in the women’s verbal memory..
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