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In the era of tight scheduling — from work appointments to romantic dates to pictures to upload on social media — true satisfaction lies in the magic of the unexpected, sexually speaking. A quickie is actually a chemical and mental balance problem solver, and here’s why.
What do we know about what goes on in our bodies, and especially in our brains, when we’re in love? A new French essay, “Cerveau, sexe et amour” (Brain, Sex and Love), looks into this question.
Despite hours of scrolling, smartphones hardly play a role in our dreams. Yet their absence may actually demonstrate our dependence on them.
Our carelessness toward the environment could be due, in part, to the functioning of a very primitive area of our brain: the striatum.
TEL AVIV — When Lucy Brown fell in love with her current husband a decade ago, she immediately went to work. When she arrived, she lay down in the latest fMRI brain scanner, closed her eyes and thought of him. “It’s not that I was looking for scientific proof that I was in love,” Brown […]