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Dear Barbara, I have the pleasure to know Bente Pakkenbergs father - Professor Pakkenberg - and he has been helping "to count" the brain cells. From 18-23 August I have the pleasure to stay at a seminar where the Professor join us as "our" neurologist ( he is one of the finest in DK) and of course I`ll try to have further information about this subject. Barbara - maybe the have counted wrong?? :-))) ---------- > Fra: Barbara Mallut <[log in to unmask]> > Til: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> > Emne: Male Brain Cells a Mystery > Dato: 1. august 1997 20:20 > > Dear List-friends... I found the following interesting (and have always > thought that male brain cells were kinda a mystery, anyway!) <grinning, > ducking & running> > > Barb Mallut > [log in to unmask] > --------------------- > Male Brain Cells a Mystery > > Danish researchers say they have discovered that men have about 4 billion more > brain cells than women. But what men do with the extra brain power is a > mystery. > > The researchers, led by Bente Pakkenberg, a female neurologist in Copenhagen, > examined the brains of 94 adult corpses ranging in age from 18 to 93. The > average age of the dead men was 52; the women, 64. Only people whose brains > showed no signs of drug or alcohol addiction or dementia were included in the > study. > > Making use of a mathematical model, a telescope and a television screen, the > researchers counted the number of neurons found in the cortex of the brains of > each of the cadavers, the Washington Times reports. > > The cortex is the part of the brain that controls speech, abstract thinking > and other higher brain functions. > > The researchers found that the average number of brain cells in men was 23 > billion while the female average was about 19 billion. > > Reporting their findings in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Pakkenberg > said she was very surprised by the results and is not sure what they mean. > > "Right now it is a mystery," she said. "The knowledge we already have shows > men are not smarter than women. The average IQ score comes out the same in > males and females."