do male brains become scatterbrained faster?

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<p>I was watching a production of On Golden Pond the other day. </p>

<p>I was rather struck by the idea of an aging professor emeritus being able to sustain conversations on language, sex and other abstract ideas but not being able to remember an old road he had walked for decades?</p>

<p>Are male academics more likely to suffer from decay of personal memory? I always have memory issues with small personal objects and I wonder if this echoes some sort of omen for increased susceptibility to future neurodegenerative disease.</p>

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<p>[Medical</a> Education Online - Male/Female Brain Differences](<a href=“http://www.medicaleducationonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=69]Medical”>http://www.medicaleducationonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=69) this link sort of disproves that thought.</p>

<p>"men have 4% more brain cells than women , and about 100 grams more of brain tissue. this may explain why women are more prone to dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease) than men, because although both may lose the same number of neurons due to the disease, “in males, the functional reserve may be greater as a larger number of nerve cells are present, which could prevent some of the functional losses.”</p>

<p>i found this to be kind of interesting to read though it did lack details.</p>