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There is a lot of science behind how a man falls in love. Astudysays that evolutionarily, the amygdala, the alarm system for threats, fear, and danger is larger in men making them possessive of their turf and their loved ones. During the initial stages of love or lust, the psychological...
CARLSON: Yeah, that's, like, measuring the motivation, which is wanting. Researchers mainly see this in the brain's reward system, which is a group of areas deep in the brain like the nucleus accumbens and the ventral striatum, parts of the amygdala. They're all queueing us up, ...
decreased the density of gray matter in the amygdala – the part of the brain associated with anxiety and stress. According toHarvard, mindfulness also: relieves stress; relieves depression; relieves anxiety; lowers blood pressure; improve chronic pain ...
Dopamine is well recognized as a neurotransmitter in the brain, and regulates critical functions in a variety of peripheral systems. Growing research has also shown that dopamine acts as an important regulator of immune function. Many immune cells express dopamine receptors and other dopamine related ...
There is generally a positive correlation between brain/body size ratio and lifespan, particularly among mammals, suggesting a role for the brain in determining lifespan. Recent studies in diverse organisms including nematodes, flies and rodents have provided evidence that, indeed the brain may contro...
How all this connects to dirty talk is that the brain processes both the dirty talking and sexual activity and pleasure in the same area of the brain. As the amygdala unleashes its powers to induce desire, it communicates to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to regulate the production of...
From these nuclei, nociceptive information is relayed to various corti- cal and subcortical regions, including the amygdala, hypo- thalamus, periaqueductal grey (PAG), basal ganglia, and regions of cerebral cortex such as the somatosensory cor- tices I and II (SI–II), the prefrontal cortex ...
into the brains of mice using Cre-conditional adeno-associated viral vectors, in which Cre recombinase (see Box 3) expression was controlled by neuron-type specific promoters: parvalbumin for expression in GABAergic interneurons, and somatostatin for expression in basolateral amygdala principa...
nerve. When your body is hurt, your vagus nerve sends a signal which acts as a counter-inflammatory role (Karimi). In Karimi’s experiment, which took place in 2011, they used vitro stimulation in order to showed that “following subdiaphragmatic vagotomy of mice, CD4+ T cells from the ...