"I like being spanked. Getting tied up is fun." Rihanna, the famous pop singer, confessed in 2011 to Rolling Stone magazine that she believed she was a bit of a masochist. However, these statements today no longer impact as much as those of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch did in 1780 in his work "The Venus of the Skins."
According to Domeena Renshaw, a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at Loyola University (USA), falling in love generates a veritable "flood" of chemicals in the body that make us feel good and are also responsible for physical reactions. such as flushing of the cheeks, sweating of the palms of the hands and the acceleration of the heartbeat. Specifically, the cerebral "cocktail" of lovers is made up of dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine.
Research by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) suggests that random collisions between neurons during brain development create ordered patterns when there are no signals to guide their fate. This finding could help explain individual differences in brain organization in members of the same species. The study has been published in the journal Neuron.
For the first time, researchers have seen the thought "swim" inside the brain of a live fish. The new technology used could be a powerful tool for perception studies, according to the authors in the journal Current Biology.
The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that "a woman who undresses is a withering image, like the sun that pierces the clouds". But exactly what effect does nudity have on our brains? Scientists from the University of Tampere (Finland) have carried out an experiment showing a series of volunteers images of people without clothes, wearing a bathing suit or wearing a dress that covered their entire body.
In cocaine users there is an increase in sensitivity towards negative emotions, and an effect that persists even when the habit has been abandoned. These are the conclusions of a study published in the journal Addiction Biology, which has analyzed the effect of this substance on different areas of the brain with functional magnetic resonance techniques.
Almost all of us have observed our tendency to stick the tip of the tongue out when we are fully immersed in a task. There are several hypotheses to explain this unconscious gesture. Desmond Morris, an English zoologist and ethologist, argues that it is a hereditary and universal gesture that informs others that someone is focused.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
