European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I i recent research has shown that in the cortex of the brain the Center of Intel evince women have More brain cells than men. That May Bethai makes women faster at some intellectual functions Battle Between of the sexes May boil Down to a brain Sybil Hendrick Cox news services ust because eve conned Adam into eating that Apple does t mean she was smarter than he was. Or does it for the first time a new study presented at the Center for. Neuroscience s annual conference in Miami Beach last month offers evidence that the area of the human brain in charge of higher intellectual activities such As language and speech is More full packed with neurons in women than men. The number of brain cells neurons in a cubic millimetre is about 5,000 cells or 11 percent greater in women than men said a team of Canadian psychiatrists and neuroscientist. This was found in both halves of the brain in a zone of the cerebral cortex in the temporal lobe at the level of the Temple behind the  previous studies had shown microscopic differences in the brains of male and female rats and Guinea pigs but this is the first to examine brain cell differences in humans. Or. Sandra Witelson of the department of psychiatry at Mcmaster University in Ontario and colleagues studied the brains of five women and four tuesday december 20,1994 .-,.-.� men aged 40 to 65, obtained from a brain Bank at Mcmaster. The people had agreed to donate the organs for study before they died. While stressing that their findings need to be replicated the scientists said the difference in brain density May be a basis for some of the observed sex differences in psychological characteristics such As speech and other perceptual  for example Young girls learn to he number of brain cells neurons in a cubic millimetre is about 5,000 cells or 11 percent greater in women than  Canadian researcher read faster and women Are better in phonetic alphabetic tasks Witelson  the findings could help reveal the locations of neural problems that cause cognitive disorders the researchers said. We know that men and women have equal Overall intelligence that the mean in of both is 100, so neither sex is smarter than the other Witelson said. On the other hand there Are certain sub components of abilities which seem to be better in one group than  men for example seem better at negotiating mazes while women Are better in Fine motor coordination of the hands she said. The differences in brain cell density also might explain very Basic personality character differences that Are typical Between men and  Witelson said it has been a no brainer for years that men and women behave think and act differently in Many areas such As child rearing. It has Long been thought that such differences Are environmental and cultural due to varying ways Little boys and girls Are trained and taught. But Witelson said their research strongly suggests that biological factors May also be involved. We have shown that in the cortex of the brain the seat of intelligence we have found that the number of brain cells cell packing density is greater in women than in men she said. In our Sample every woman had a greater number of cells per unit volume than every Man. In addition Little girls normally learn to read faster and it s possible it s All due to the fact that the cortex is constituted differently in men and women. Short subject sorry Guys women Are a bit quicker mentally by Cox news service or. Sandra Witelson s study of gender differences in the brain was just one of 10,000 scholarly papers presented at the Miami Beach conference on neurological research. Several other studies Deal with neurological differences Between men and women including one by or. Manfred Fah Leof Germany who tested University students by asking them to memorize certain letters and monitoring their brain activity electronically. His research found that women perform significantly faster than men when shown a series of single letters and then asked to recall what they have seen the Clear difference Between the sexes regarding both reaction times and frequency of Braun potentials with women performing significantly faster than men leads us to believe. There is a causal relationship in the brain to explain females greater Speed he said. A another study at Meharry medical College suggests that hypertension is linked with sexual dysfunction. In experiments on rats drs. A. Keaton and . Clark found that drugs designed to fight hypertension also seem to cause sexual problems. About 60 million americans suffer from hypertension and Many drugs Are available to treat the condition but consideration should be Given to the possible Side effects such As sexual dysfunction,1 the researchers said. There Are no differences Between the sexes in vocabulary or comprehension of language Witelson said but women Are better at fluency at decoding recognizing unfamiliar words. Women Are faster at Reading unfamiliar  Kitty Cottu Tamm mfr Koni of Tamra Ink Antny pull Glon in m with Mpr of of cd Vii i if Wigton  in twin. In Row pm of in Corput it totem taint to cd o4 a Hotd. To Margir in women tfx to in. Not Lar found to m i re i in mown not be densities Are not the Only differences Between male and female brains. 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