#583 The Sex-Specific Brain

For years, medical researchers have assumed that medical research on men could just be applied to women as well. But gradually, data have emerged to suggest that women are not just smaller men with breasts and ovaries. There may be other significant differences as well. Now science is beginning to discover just how those differences are reflected in our brains and social interactions. Why is it that men never remember, and women never forget?
Guest: Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, is a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University, where she founded and heads the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine. One of the world’s foremost experts on gender medicine and winner of many awards for her work, she is the author of The Female Heart: What Women Need to Know, Eve’s Rib, and most recently, with Laura Tucker, Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget.