How do womens brains play a role in women-to-women oppression?
In the July 5th 2004 issue of Newsweek researchers used an MRI scan to study brain behavior among women and men. They measured brain activity while test subjects played games. The cingulate cortex, which processes both emotions and abstract thinking, becomes especially active after one player betrays the other, as if the brain is “hypertuned” to detect betrayal. Further, men’s brains tend to shut down after they’ve made their decision, awaiting a reply from the other subject. But women continue to show activity in at least three areasthe ventral striatum (the brain’s center for anticipating rewards), the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (which is involved with planning and organizing) and the caudate nucleus (a checking and monitoring region, sometimes associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder). Women seem to obsess more over whether they did the right thingand how the other subject will react to them. Based on this research, it could then be hypothisized that women may be more hyp
