Education
Brizendine did her undergraduate work from 1972-1976 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in neurobiology. She studied for her Doctor of Medicine from 1976-1981 at the Yale School of Medicine. She subsequently did a Residency in Psychiatry, MMHC, from 1982-1985 at the Harvard Medical School.
Career
Born December 30, 1952) is an American scientist, a neuropsychiatrist who is both a researcher and a clinician. She is the author of two books: The Female Brain, and The Male Brain (published in 2010). Brizendine"s research concerns women"s moods and hormones.
She is board-certified in psychiatry and neurology and is an endowed clinical professor
She joined the faculty of University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in 1988 and now holds the Lynneand Marc Benioff-endowed chair of psychiatry. At University of California, San Francisco, Brizendine carries out clinical, teaching, writing and research activities.
In 1994 Brizendine founded the University of California, San Francisco Women"s Mood and Hormone Clinic, and continues to serve as its director Brizendine also teaches courses to medical students, residents and other physicians throughout the country, on the neurobiology of hormones, mood disorders, anxiety problems, and changes in sexual interest due to hormones.
Brizendine"s book "The Female Brain" was reviewed both positively and negatively by numerous critics, especially one piece of content pertaining to linguistics and language.
Foreign more information, see She later acknowledged that this book overemphasised gender-based differences, saying: "Males and females are more alike than they"re differences. After all, we are the same species". She has also written The Male Brain and admitted that her books emphasis the differences between men and women which has led to her "best selling" success.
Brizendine did her undergraduate work from 1972-1976 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in neurobiology.
From 1985-1988, Brizendine was on the faculty at Harvard University, and from 1988 onwards at the University of California, San Francisco.