ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Louann Brizendine,
M.D. , a neuropsychiatrist at the University of
California-San Francisco, is the founder of the Women's and Teen
Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was previously on faculty at
the Harvard Medical School and is a graduate of Yale University
School of Medicine and the University of California-Berkeley in
neurobiology. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her
husband and son.
This book is not intended to take the place of medical advice from
a trained medical professional. Readers are advised to consult a
physician or other qualified health professional regarding
treatment of their medical problems. Neither the publisher nor the
author takes any responsibility for any possible consequences from
any treatment, action, or application of medicine, herb, or
preparation to any person reading or following the information in
this book.

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Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New
York.
www.crownpublishing.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data Brizendine, Louann, 1952-
The male brain / Louann Brizendine.
p. cm.
1. Neuroendocrinology. 2. Brain--Sex differences. 3.
Men--Physiology. I. Title.
QP356.4.B75 2010
612.8--dc22 2009042116
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