The change of season's along the Hudson River ( from my daughte Kristin's recent trip)
Here are a fee things I am reading today:
“Could a fetus lying in the womb be planning its future? The question comes from the discovery that brain areas thought to be involved in introspection and other aspects of consciousness are fully formed in newborn babies. Resting state networks (RSNs), sometimes called the “dark energy of the brain”, are patterns of low-frequency brain activity that are constantly active, even when a person is asleep.”
“…Cars kill a lot more people than spiders, bats, snakes and wolves, but why don’t we fear them in the same visceral way? When’s the last time you saw a jack-o’-lantern carved in the shape of a BMW?”
“Scholars, poets, and just plain folks have pondered the meaning and mystery of love for thousands of years, but every definition seems lacking. For a decade now, scientists have focused one of their most powerful instruments on the human brain, seeking to understand the role that love plays in our lives.”
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stephanielow · November 2, 2010 at 7:30 pm
“could a fetus be planning its future?”
This article was interesting, however, I do not believe that a fetus could actually plan its future. Even though the structures of a fetus’s brain would well-developed enough for introspection, I think that the fetus does not use this structure like we do today. In order to plan and think, the fetus must have had experiences, which the fetus has not had yet. This discovery definitely deserves more research though.
natzafis · November 5, 2010 at 2:15 pm
“why love is like pain and cocaine”
I found the article about the science of love to be extremely interesting, especially when it discussed the increase of dopamine involved in falling in love. It is amusing that the Ke$ha song, “Your Love is My Drug” is actually correct because recent studies prove that falling in love evokes the same feelings of euphoria experienced when people use cocaine. I also find it ironic that, although research has showed that passionate love can act as our own personal painkiller, in many cases such strong feelings of love can result in heartbreak and other forms of emotional pain. Regardless of the potentially negative results of love, it is promising and romantic that falling in love positively influences mood, reward, and motivation centers of the brain.
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