Previously I posted on the general features of oxytocin, what it acts on, and where it basically acts, and what it’s mostly known for. But the reality is that oxytocin is a LOT more complicated than that, and has different effects of your body and your behavior, depending on who you are. It varies from […]
As a taste of things to come. 🙂 For your Friday Weird Science, I present to you a Poem! And I shall call it “Prairie Voles in Love: An Ode to Oxytocin” Out on the lonely prairie, gazing at the stars above I saw through the night the wondrous sight Of prairie voles in love […]
One of the biggest problems with drug addiction is that it is a disorder that is characterized by relapse. You just CAN’T QUIT. It’d be one thing if you got hooked, got sober, there were some initial bad reactions, and then you were ok. But drug addiction isn’t like that. Drug addicts relapse, even when […]
About a month ago now (yikes, it’s been a while!), Sci handed over her diet to the judgment of the goddess. The goddess Isis. Since then, and since finding out that Sci ate roughly 2500 calories a day (or more, and running 5 miles a day doesn’t help THAT much), some major changes have been […]
There once was a sad undergrad
and her memory, oh it was BAD!
But she read this science note
and science poetry she wrote
and her orgo chem grades now are rad!
it also appears that stress brings out other behaviors in humans that may not be as positive as you think.
This month’s issue is on video games, and whether or not violent video games can contribute to violence in children and adolescents. Their conclusion: maaaaaaaybe.
let’s talk about status. Status and height. Because it is, after all, the size that counts.
Our brains may want cake, and other parts of our brains want healthy. The two sides need to fight. But which areas of your brain are responsible? And how do they modulate each other?
Having more or less intense feelings for someone who looks or acts more or less like you could help explain how we establish things like “in group” and “out group” concepts