Ever wonder why boys just do not get the hint or just cannot seem to meet your emotional needs? Ever wonder why girls seem much more sensitive? Well, there is a scientific explanation for the behavioral differences between males and females.

 On average, male brains utilize nearly seven times more gray matter, while female brains utilize nearly ten times more white matter. Gray matter areas are information and action processing centers in specific areas of the brain. These centers are the reason males sometimes have tunnel vision while doing something. When they become deeply engaged in a task or game, they become less sensitive to other people or to their surroundings. Gray matter and other processing centers are connected by the white matter in your brain. This brain-processing difference can be accredited for the ability of females to transition between tasks more quickly than males. The gray-white matter difference may also explain why, in adulthood, females are known to be great multitaskers, while men excel in task-focused projects.

 Brain activity is another substantial difference between the brains of males and females. The female brain will often think deeply, and oftentimes overthink, about things and revisit emotional memories more than the male brain. This is partially due to the more natural blood flow throughout the female brain, which means more white matter processing, and also because of a higher degree of blood flow in a concentration part of the brain called the cingulate gyrus. Males are designed a bit differently, as they tend to reflect only briefly on emotional memories, analyze them somewhat, then are able to move onto the next task. They may even choose to do something active and completely unrelated to feelings, unlike females who often find themselves unable to move past certain happenings.

 Both male and female brains process the same neurochemicals, but in very different ways and to different extents. An example of a dominant neurochemical difference is serotonin, which can cause depression when levels are low. Depression and chronic anxiety are more common in women due to low levels of serotonin. Testosterone is another neurochemical, our sex and aggression chemical, which is present in males in much higher concentrations than in females. Lastly, oxytocin is known as the “love hormone” because it is released during hugging, touching, and in orgasms in both genders, though more in males. You may have noticed that, on average, males tend to be unable to sit still as long as females, and also tend to be more physically impulsive and aggressive. This is due to the differences in processing neurotransmitters. Junior Dong Tran commented, “I had no idea there were scientific differences in boys and girls brains, but I’m not all that surprised.”

 You may have previously thought of the opposite sex as a whole other species, crazy and complex. However, there are neurological reasonings for the differing ways in which people behave.