Louann Brizendine, M.D. received a degree in Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley, graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. She is currently a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco who specializes in the relationship dynamics that result from the neurobiology of male and female brains. She founded the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic in 1994 and serves as the clinic's director. She has written two books: The Female Brain and The Male Brain.