Louann Brizendine

Louann Brizendine ( born December 30, 1952) taught neuropsychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco ( UCSF ). Her research is concerned with the female hormones and female moods.

Professional life

From 1972 Brizendine studied neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1976 with a bachelor's degree. She then studied 1976-1981 at the Yale School of Medicine with the degree MD Your specialist training in psychiatry, she completed from 1982 to 1985 at Harvard Medical School and taught there until she was appointed in 1988 as professor at the UCSF clinic. In 2007 she received the donated by Lynne and Marc Benioff Chair of Psychiatry at the USCF.

In 1994, Brizendine the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic at the UCL in San Francisco and became its director. In the clinic, not only women are treated but also couples. Furthermore Brizendine holds throughout the United States lectures and courses.

Works

• The female brain. Why women are different than men, Goldmann, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-442-15516-3
• The male brain. Why Men are different than women. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50148-3.