This could explain why males are more prone to age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer's and memory loss. In tasks such as reading, men tend to use only the left hand side of the brain whereas women use areas on both sides. There is, however, little or no difference in accuracy or speed. Other differences between male and female thinking in healthy brains have been discovered4. For example, men are better at mentally rotating an image in order to solve a problem.
Women can recall lists of words or paragraphs of text better than men.
The conclusion to draw from all this research is that men and women do have differently wired brains which can lead to different strengths and weaknesses. Differences between male and female brains 2. Faster Than Female Brain 4. Gender and the Brain 5. In an interesting experiment, Dr Gold gave one group of subjects lemonade with glucose and a control group lemonade sweetened with saccharine.