Louann Brizendine
Neuropsychiatrist and author
Louann Brizendine is an American neuropsychiatrist and researcher who wrote The Female Brain and The Male Brain.
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American Born 1952 in Hazard, United States
About Louann Brizendine
Louann Brizendine, born in 1952, is an American neuropsychiatrist who works as both a researcher and a clinician. She earned her degree in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, then went on to Yale School of Medicine, and later did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. She has taught at Harvard University and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is a professor. In 1994 she founded the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic at UCSF. She has written three books: The Female Brain, published in 2006, then The Male Brain in 2010, and The Upgrade in 2022. A 2017 film called The Female Brain was inspired by her work.