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Women talk three times as much as men, says study

By FIONA MACRAE Last updated at 13:39pm on 28th November 2006 

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It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the
other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. 

In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average
woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average
man. 

Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and
actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book
suggests. 

The book - written by a female psychiatrist - says that inherent
differences between the male and female brain explain why women are
naturally more talkative than men. 

In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says women devote more brain
cells to talking than men. 

And, if that wasn't enough, the simple act of talking triggers a flood
of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by
heroin addicts when they get a high. 

Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be
traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the
developing male brain. 

The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all
pared back the unborn baby boy. 

The result is that boys - and men - chat less than their female
counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent. 

"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men
have a small country road," said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood
and hormone" clinic in San Francisco. 

There are, however, advantages to being the strong, silent type. Dr
Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the
section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf"
to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and
girlfriends. 

But what the male brain may lack in converstation and emotion, they more
than make up with in their ability to think about sex. 

Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible
for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps
explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind. 
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