THE BRAIN: A L❤VE STORY ⏱16:52
how social media posts betray relationship breakdown, how lonely brains are different, and the quest for the brain's beauty centre
episode #3, 12th February 2021 #breakups #loneliness #beauty #musk #wolpert image source
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our main brain stories this episode...
LANGUAGE LEAKS LOST LOVE
thousands of reddit users' posts were analysed for signs of their impending relationship break-ups. they were a bit less analytical than usual, & said 'i' and 'we' a bit more. love hurts. [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. original article: Seraj et al., 2021 (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), reported in: The Daily Mail by Shivali Best on 1st February 2021 & The Times by Rhys Blakely on 2nd February 2021 image source #breakup #male #reddit #dumped #loser
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ratings: The Daily Mail:
LONELY BRAINS LOOK DIFFERENT
analysis of nearly forty thousand brain scans shows that adults who often feel lonely have structural and functional changes in parts of their brains sometimes associated with social interactions and mind-wandering [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. original article: Spreng et al., 2020 (Nature Communications), reported in: The Globe and Mail by Eric Andrew-Gee on 9th February 2021 image source #loneliness #connectivity #default #rest
rating: The Globe and Mail:
BEAUTY IS IN THE BRAIN. OR ISN'T
a meta-analysis of 49 brain imaging studies finds that different parts of the brain are involved in the appreciation of the visual beauty of arts and of faces. there's no 'beauty centre' [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. original article: Chuan-Peng et al., 2020 (Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience), reported in: Scientific American by Jason Castro on 2nd February 2021 image source #art #beauty #faces #fMRI #meta-analysis
rating: Scientific American:
LOVE IS IN THE (UNDERARM H)AIR
the brains of 18 single young men seem to distinguish between the armpit smells of 5 similar-age ovulating women & the smells of an older group of 5 pregnant women. why we need to know this is anyone's guess. [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. original article: Habel et al., 2021 (NeuroImage), image source #ovulation #pregnancy #smell #odour #FMRI
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THERE'S TOO MUCH BRAIN NEWS
there were way too many brain stories to cover in this episode. the error bar's limited capacity means all you'll get is this list... [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. original articles: Fugazza et al., 2021 (Scientific Reports), Leipold et al., 2021 (Journal of Neuroscience), Goupil et al., 2021 (Nature Communications), Eyigoz et al., 2020 (EClinicalMedicine), Marselle et al., 2020 (Scientific Reports), Russ et al., 2021 (Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease), Portugal et al., 2021 (Scientific Reports), Power et al., 2021 (Psychological Medicine), Aydogan et al., 2021 (Nature Human Behaviour), Rahimi-Nasrabadi et al., 2021 (Cell Reports), reported in: The Times by Rhys Blakely on 27th January 2021 & The Independent by Tom Batchelor on 26th January 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 25th January 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 8th February 2021 & The New York Times by Gina Kolata on 1st February 2021 & The Independent by Joe Middleton on 26th January 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 3rd February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 28th January 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 26th January 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 28th January 2021 & Herald Sun by Noah Manskar on 3rd February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Shivali Best on 2nd February 2021 #overload #stimulation #verbosity
LEWIS WOLPERT (1929-2021)
professor of embryology, humanist, and science communicator lewis wolpert passed away in january 2021 having written an extremely influential and honest book on depression, malignant sadness [read more...]
this story was in episode #3. reported in: The Guardian by Georgina Ferry on 29th January 2021 & The Telegraph by Telegraph Obituaries on 29th January 2021 image source #depression #sadness #obituary #embryology