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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
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...
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
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,...
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Category: Neuroscience
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!
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
it also appears that stress brings out other behaviors in humans that may not be as positive as you think.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
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.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
let's talk about status. Status and height. Because it is, after all, the size that counts.
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