The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Remakes Itself in the Second Half of Life

＂After analyzing the latest research, Brizendine has found that in midlife the inclination to cater to the needs of others relaxes, allowing women to become more centered while retaining their gifts of perception. The change in ratio of estrogen to testosterone makes women more direct and able to speak out. There’s also a drop in anxiety that allows the female brain to flip its attentional style from multitasking to focusing on one thing at a time. The upgraded female brain is centered, direct, validated, focused, fearless, expansive, and free. In this sweeping look at the second half of life, Brizendine dives deep into the microscopic workings of your mitochondria one moment and zooms out to the bigger picture--family, relationships, identity--the next＂--

Dr. Louann Brizendine, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is founder and director of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic and the Teen Girl Mood and Hormone Clinic, and is the author of two books, The Female Brain and The Male Brain. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.