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Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Women feel pain more than men
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Women-feel-pain-more-than-men/articleshow/7716587.cms
Women feel pain more than men (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)
Women have more intense responses to pain than men, say scientists.
A study using MRI brain scanners found women process pain in the brain differently to men.
Doctors were investigating gender differences in how the sexes respond to the pain of chronic conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome - which affects more women than men.
But the findings also shed light on the age-old debate about the sensitivity of the sexes.
A research team from London and Japan led by Professor Qasim Aziz, of the Wingate Institute for Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary University of London, studied brain activity and reactions of 16 men and 16 women in the anticipation and processing of pain.
The study involved healthy volunteers who were told that a tiny balloon would be expanded in the gullet, before the procedure lasting a second.
During the period leading up to it, women had less activity in areas that process fear and more activity in areas involved in preparing and planning movements to avoid the impending pain.
In men, fear was predominant when they were expecting to feel pain.
During the painful event the opposite reaction was seen among men who were more involved with pain avoidance.
In contrast, women showed greater activity in areas involved in processing emotions and feeling the pain.
"The fact that during pain our female subjects showed more activation of the emotion processing areas in the brain could suggest a mechanism whereby females may attribute more emotional importance to painful stimuli which may influence how they perceive, report and respond to pain in comparison to males," the Daily Mail quoted Prof Aziz as saying.
"Further research is now required to assess the clinical importance of these findings and to determine if brain imaging studies can help to guide therapy," Prof Aziz added.
Findings from the scans will be released at the British Society of Gastroenterology's annual meeting in Birmingham.
A study using MRI brain scanners found women process pain in the brain differently to men.
Doctors were investigating gender differences in how the sexes respond to the pain of chronic conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome - which affects more women than men.
But the findings also shed light on the age-old debate about the sensitivity of the sexes.
A research team from London and Japan led by Professor Qasim Aziz, of the Wingate Institute for Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary University of London, studied brain activity and reactions of 16 men and 16 women in the anticipation and processing of pain.
The study involved healthy volunteers who were told that a tiny balloon would be expanded in the gullet, before the procedure lasting a second.
During the period leading up to it, women had less activity in areas that process fear and more activity in areas involved in preparing and planning movements to avoid the impending pain.
In men, fear was predominant when they were expecting to feel pain.
During the painful event the opposite reaction was seen among men who were more involved with pain avoidance.
In contrast, women showed greater activity in areas involved in processing emotions and feeling the pain.
"The fact that during pain our female subjects showed more activation of the emotion processing areas in the brain could suggest a mechanism whereby females may attribute more emotional importance to painful stimuli which may influence how they perceive, report and respond to pain in comparison to males," the Daily Mail quoted Prof Aziz as saying.
"Further research is now required to assess the clinical importance of these findings and to determine if brain imaging studies can help to guide therapy," Prof Aziz added.
Findings from the scans will be released at the British Society of Gastroenterology's annual meeting in Birmingham.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The science of gender
Gur Fateh,
In one of the SKA audios, Dharam Singh Ji mentions that “Woman is an incomplete Man”.
Below is an article which came to my attention and which totally substanciates Dharam Singh Ji’s remarks. See highlight in red.
I am pasting the article here in case this information ( in the future ) is deprecated and no longer available online.
Jagdeep Singh.
Original Source : http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/
The science of gender
Explaining the differences between gender and sex and what it means to be a man, a woman or somewhere in between.…
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Posted By James Snodgrass, Thu 09 Sep, 2010 10:45AM BST
What’s the difference between sex and gender?
It’s a bit like the difference between looking at the temperature on a thermometer and asking how hot you feel. Sex describes the biological differences between male and female: the chromosomes, hormones and sexual organs that indicate you are one or the other. Gender is about how people feel about masculinity or femininity – the individual perception of being male or female.
Why are some people born women and some men?
If you’re a crocodile or a turtle, it’s all about the temperature at which the egg is incubated. A freshly-laid crocodile egg could be incubated to be either male or female. All humans start off looking like female embryos. One pair of the 23 chromosomes we inherit from each parent determines whether we will be a girl (XX) or a boy (XY). It is only after six weeks that a gene called Sry, found only on the Y chromosome, switches on and starts to make a male body from the embryo.
It’s a bit like the difference between looking at the temperature on a thermometer and asking how hot you feel. Sex describes the biological differences between male and female: the chromosomes, hormones and sexual organs that indicate you are one or the other. Gender is about how people feel about masculinity or femininity – the individual perception of being male or female.
Why are some people born women and some men?
If you’re a crocodile or a turtle, it’s all about the temperature at which the egg is incubated. A freshly-laid crocodile egg could be incubated to be either male or female. All humans start off looking like female embryos. One pair of the 23 chromosomes we inherit from each parent determines whether we will be a girl (XX) or a boy (XY). It is only after six weeks that a gene called Sry, found only on the Y chromosome, switches on and starts to make a male body from the embryo.
Female bodies are further developed by the switching on of a gene called FoxL2, which completes the development of ovaries in the unborn female. Experiments on mice have shown that if you switch off FoxL2, the ovaries wither and the female embryo starts to develop sperm-producing cells.
What about testosterone and oestrogen?
These well-known sex hormones develop at a slightly later stage. Although testosterone is associated with masculinity and oestrogen with femininity, babies of either sex need both to survive. But it is the balance of these hormones at key stages that determines whether we become a boy or a girl.
Is gender a question of nature versus nurture?
Some scientists believe our gender identity is hard-wired into the brain before birth. Experiments with young children and monkeys has found that girls and female monkeys typically opted for toys like dolls while boys and male monkeys preferred toy cars. Both sexes liked books and crayons.
What about testosterone and oestrogen?
These well-known sex hormones develop at a slightly later stage. Although testosterone is associated with masculinity and oestrogen with femininity, babies of either sex need both to survive. But it is the balance of these hormones at key stages that determines whether we become a boy or a girl.
Is gender a question of nature versus nurture?
Some scientists believe our gender identity is hard-wired into the brain before birth. Experiments with young children and monkeys has found that girls and female monkeys typically opted for toys like dolls while boys and male monkeys preferred toy cars. Both sexes liked books and crayons.
But what of those people sometimes referred to as ‘transexuals’, who feel themselves trapped in a body of the wrong sex. Is this gender identity crisis a product of biology or society?
“There is a huge lack of understanding surrounding the social meaning and scientific definition of gender and that makes it more of a taboo,” says the Science Museum’s Holly Cave. “You only have to think back to the headlines and speculation about Caster Semenya, the athlete forced to undergo gender testing in 2009, to see that gender isn’t necessarily easy to define.”
Living between genders.
‘Alex’ was born a girl but identifies himself as male. He says: “Testosterone only enables the world to see the man I have always been.
“I was registered female at birth, but I have known that I was born in the wrong body for as long as I can remember.
“Some people wonder if gender dysphoria is a cause of nature versus nurture. I know that I was born in the wrong body. Medical science is constantly coming up with improved treatment and surgeries but I know that I’ll reach a point where I must accept that my body can only be changed so much. Being in the wrong body is torturous; this is not a lifestyle choice but a hero’s journey.”
You can find out more about the science behind sex and gender identity at the Science Museum’s Who Am I? exhibition.
Living between genders.
‘Alex’ was born a girl but identifies himself as male. He says: “Testosterone only enables the world to see the man I have always been.
“I was registered female at birth, but I have known that I was born in the wrong body for as long as I can remember.
“Some people wonder if gender dysphoria is a cause of nature versus nurture. I know that I was born in the wrong body. Medical science is constantly coming up with improved treatment and surgeries but I know that I’ll reach a point where I must accept that my body can only be changed so much. Being in the wrong body is torturous; this is not a lifestyle choice but a hero’s journey.”
You can find out more about the science behind sex and gender identity at the Science Museum’s Who Am I? exhibition.
Monday, January 4, 2010
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ਸੁੰਨਤਿ ਕੀਏ ਤੁਰਕੁ ਜੇ ਹੋਇਗਾ ਅਉਰਤ ਕਾ ਕਿਆ ਕਰੀਐ ॥
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