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The panel got into a great discussion about the book: The Female Brain.  It sounds like a “must read”.

Here is a description from Wikipedia:

The Female Brain is a book by Louann Brizendine, M.D., whose main thesis is that women’s behavior is radically different from that of men due to hormonal differences. Brizendine says that the human female brain is affected by the following hormones: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, (oxytocin), neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin), and difference in architecture of the brain (prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus, amygdale) that regulates such hormones and neurotransmitters. The life cycle of these hormones define specific passages in a women’s life including, puberty, and menopause, acoording to Brizendine.

Brizendine’s book includes seven chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to either a specific part of a woman’s life such as puberty, motherhood, and menopause or a specific dimension of a women’s emotional life such as feelings, love & trust, and sex. The book also includes three appendices on hormone therapy, postpartum depression, and sexual orientation

The book was not fact checked, and the author took some of her supportive statistics from self-help gurus (see Fact-checking the Female Brain).