TY - BOOK AU - Brizendine Louann TI - The female brain : : Sassy, witty, reassuring and great fun.. SN - 978-0-553-81849-9 U1 - 155.333 23 PY - 2007/// CY - London. PB - Transworld Publishers N1 - Introduction What makes us women 1. The birth of the female brain 2. Teen girl brain 3. Love and trust 4. Sex: The brain below the belt 5. The mommy brain 6. Emotion: The feeling brain 7. The mature female brain. Epilogue The future of the female brain Appendix one: The female brain and hormone therapy Appendix two: The female brain and postpartum depression Appendix three: The female brain and sexual orientation N2 - Did you know that every brain begins as a female brain and that it only becomes eight weeks after conception? This is when excess testosterone shrinks the communication centre, reduces the hearing cortex and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large ER -