Braincast 009 - Love

Real feelings at Braincast: vital, neurological and hormonal insights about infatuation, love and being dumped. Featuring voles and fidelity, homosexuality and hypothalamus, orgasms in scanners and bad news for men.



MP3 File Duration: 19:22

Still I´m within a lazy summer (with bad weather) – expect me to be back in two weeks.

NEWS

• Lovesickness: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/627/1
  
• Why we love: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-playing-field/200806/why-we-laugh
  
• Old and young: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/06/young-and-old-brains-differ-in-encoding.html#links
  
• Mirror Neurons: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-mirror-neuron-revolut
  
• Meditation: http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/06/opening_the_minds_eye_attentio.php#more
  
• Brain Journey: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33747/title/Journey_to_the_center_of_the_brain
  
• Mind and matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01brain.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
  
• Major and minor: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/07/why-are-musical-chords-cheerful-or.html
  
• Breathalyser: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14247-brain-breathalysers-may-scan-astronauts-for-stress.html
  
• Milgram, again: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01mind.html?_r=1&ei=5087&em=&en=c936b0cbb7f0ce86&ex=1215057600&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
  
• No fooling ourselves: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html?ei=5087&em=&en=529bfb6e3e5a4ff9&ex=1215057600&pagewanted=print
  
• Nature tv: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/07/nature-on-plasma-tv-not-as-beneficial.html
  
• Baby smiling, German, e.g.: http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/news/292688.html
  
• Relaxation/genes http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701221501.htm
  
• Nutrition: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/07/brain-foods.html
  
• Who you think of: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/07/mind-who-you-think-of.html
  
• Love makes blind: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14263-love-really-is-blind-or-at-least-blinkered.html
  
• Computer music: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002631
  
• Implant: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14277-brain-implant-helps-stroke-victim-speak-again.html
  
• Psychiatric genetics: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080709/full/454154a.html
  
• Frog´s selective hearing: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/3
  
• Stinking meaning: http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2008/07/fart_spray_and_disgust_more_ge.php
  

SHOWNOTES
First song is Traveler Alive from Chance´s End, second the promising Some Day I Will from Christophe Goze. The hidden track is Paul Borth with Paul in Love.