Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Does all this romantic mumbo-jumbo make you feel a little queasy? I have good news: a recent study showed that listening [...]
Tags: brain, dopamine, junk food, love, MRI, music
Posted February 11, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Unlike Helen Fisher, Ted Huston is more interested in studying what happens throughout long-term relationships. One interesting finding over a lifetime [...]
Tags: brain, Helen Fisher, love, marriage, romance, ted huston
Posted February 8, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Ever fallen madly in love? Researcher Helen Fisher has spent her academic life trying to figure out what’s going on in [...]
Tags: brain, caudate nucleus, dopamine, Helen Fisher, love, neuroscience of love, romance
Posted February 7, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
If you’re like me, you have a neuroscientist in your family who’s hard to shop for. So perhaps, when you get desperate, you find yourself wondering (as I did this morning) if there are any brain-themed holiday gifts out there. It turns out there are. A lot. Zazzle.com has over 800 (!) neuron/brain/neurotransmitter-themed items, including [...]
Tags: brain, gifts, holidays, lifestyle
Posted November 30, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale in this video clip. But how does it work?
Tags: Bobby McFerrin, brain, culture, music, pentatonic scale
Posted April 27, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends
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