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The Science Of Sex: 5 Must-Know Facts About Your Brain And Desire

The Science Of Sex: 5 Must-Know Facts About Your Brain And Desire | Science News | Scoop.it

You'll be hard-pressed to open a magazine or go to a news site without seeing headlines like these. Human relationships, desire, love and sex have been written about and rationalized since time immemorial, it's no wonder that modern scientists continually try to dissect their mysteries. But what can our minds really tell us about matters of the heart?


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The Brain Responds To Music The Same Way As Eating

The Brain Responds To Music The Same Way As Eating | Science News | Scoop.it

Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.

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Brain scans can predict weight gain and sexual activity, research shows

Brain scans can predict weight gain and sexual activity, research shows | Science News | Scoop.it
At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain.

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The Neurobiology of Bliss--Sacred and Profane: Scientific American

The Neurobiology of Bliss--Sacred and Profane: Scientific American | Science News | Scoop.it
Sex in the brain, and what it reveals about the neuroscience of deep pleasure...
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Sex on the brain is different for males and females - health - 12 December 2011 - New Scientist

Sex on the brain is different for males and females - health - 12 December 2011 - New Scientist | Science News | Scoop.it
As male rats become more sexually experienced parts of their brain disappear, whereas in females, these same parts seem to instigate sexual behaviour...
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Curiosity - Why is Sex Fun? | Brain Activity

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5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams

5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams | Science News | Scoop.it
Scientists are learning more and more about what goes on while we sleep.


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Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

The new evidence shows that the sex hormones – testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone – act in a key region of the brain, switching certain genes on and others off.
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The growing science of sex difference

The headline at the online magazine Miller-McCune.com just about says it all: "Sex on the Brain Proves Costly for Men." In an intriguing set of empirical studies just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of social scientists led by professor Sanne Nauts shows that the mere prospect of speaking with an unknown woman reduces men's (but not women's) performance on cognitive tasks.

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