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November 20, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake... ( So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:12 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2009
Category: Behavioral Neuro
And now Sci can finally get down to writing the hefty post in the oxytocin series, what she likes to call the effects on the soft stuff. The emotions, memory, trust, that kind of thing. She didn't know if she'd...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
Category: Behavioral Neuro
Sci will be honest. The migraine continues apace. But the oxytocin, it must be blogged. And the migraine medication, it makes Sci loopy! Given what I'll be blogging today, that might not be a bad thing... (From the Devil's Panties,...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
Sci was totally going to blog the effects of oxytocin in men tonight. Unfortunately, she has recently been stricken by a migraine of rather impressive proportions. Under such conditions, she has no ability to focus on things like brightly lit...
Posted by Scicurious at 10:11 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
Rounding out Sci's first week of the Great Oxytocin Posting of 2009 (oh yes, there will be two weeks of this, hang tight), we've gotta do something weird. And luckily for everyone, oxytocin does lend itself to the strange types...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:18 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
Category: Behavioral Neuro
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...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:58 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
We Interrupt this craziness on Oxytocin for an important PSA: Open Lab is COMING!!! Sci all of a sudden looked up, realized it was November, and realized the deadline for post submission was December 1!!! That's close, people, real close....
Posted by Scicurious at 12:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
So sometimes, Sci gets questions, and sometimes those questions...are close enough to requests. And so, today Sci will begin what is probably going to be an extensive basic series on oxytocin. We ALL love oxytocin, right? Right! And we all...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:55 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2009
Category: Behavioral Neuro
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...
Posted by Scicurious at 9:13 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 6, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
Editor's Selection Icon Who would have thought Sci would be running a normal pub-med search, for something COMPLETELY not weird science material, and come across...this? Truly, it was meant to be! This case report is probably one of the weirdest...
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