Men may be from Mars, but according to new research, they’re not there alone.
An Israeli study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined nearly 1,400 human brains – and failed to find consistent differences between the sexes.
Until now, research into how the brain is wired has focused on a single region and whether it is constructed differently according to gender. This new Israeli study has taken a different approach, looking at many regions at the same time to see if being ‘male’ or ‘female’ in one region was true across the other regions.
The study found that there was no correlation between regions, meaning that being good – or not so good – at one thing did not necessarily mean you had an overall ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain.
