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How long does it take to read The Female Brain?

Louann Brizendine

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine takes about 5 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 7 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2006. 279 pages, about 76,725 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 7 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Dr. Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function. At the same time, The National Institute of Health began including female subjects in almost all of its studies for the first time. The result has been an explosion of new data. Here, Brizendine distills of this information in order to educate women about their unique brain-body-behavior. This book combines two decades of her own work, stories from her clinical practice, and the latest information from the scientific community at large to provide a comprehensive look at the way women's minds work.--From publisher description

Subjects: female subjects, Psychology, neurobiology, science, Brain, neurology

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