Progesterone prepares the uterus for the implantation of a fertilized ovum and promotes the maintenance of pregnancy.
Think of it as the Barry White effect.
Men are more likely to seek multiple sex partners, especially for short-term encounters.
Because apparently if you are seeking multiple sex partners, all of your encounters will definitely be short-term.
Antagonist: Drug that blocks a neurotransmitter Agonist: Drug that mimics or increases an effect
Agony: not having access to either drug
Withdrawal: Body’s reaction to absence of the drug.
Or as some cultures call it, ‘Lent.’
Empiricism: Belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation; essential element in scientific method.
Subject to abuse in political arguments on Facebook.
Corpus Collosum.
Name of one of my students’ heavy metal band.
Naturalistic observation: Technique for gathering scientific information by unobtrusively observing people in their natural environments.
For example, not stopping a fight at a Waffle House.
Call me a zombie if you may.
Since I too have a passion for brains.
There is no evidence to support procrastinators do their best work under pressure.
Although I could be wrong since I just am reading this too.
Steroid Hormones Contain four carbon rings, and exert their effects in three ways.
The most common of which is increasing your chances of winning the tour de France.
Morphemes:the smallest meaningful units of language.
For example, if you’re a millennial the response to OMG he was BAE until TMI would be LOL.
Homosexual behavior occurs in many animal species.
But is only Homo sapiens who have a designated parade for this behavior.
Many people with addiction have more than one addiction.
Which is why the saying Isn’t; Sex, Or Drugs, Or Rock and Roll.
Critical thinking: Involves asking tough questions about whether evidence has been interpreted in an unbiased way, and about whether the evidence tells not just the truth, but the whole truth.
A practice not often adhered to in a court room.
You may for guided visualizations initially imagine yourself in a beautiful forested setting with some trees and plants.
If you have seasonal allergies, let go of any thoughts of needing your inhaler.
Twin studies confirm strong influence of genetics on vulnerability to alcohol/drugs.
So if you’ve been drinking, it’s unsafe to hand the keys to anyone who looks like you.
Some experiments with consciousness use masking: a brief visual stimulus is preceded and followed by longer interfering stimuli.
The nude scene in “Titanic” was a brief visual stimulus. The rest of the movie was interfering stimuli.
To sit and meditate for 20 minutes might seem at first daunting, yet all of us are able to aim to be fully present for even just one breath, from beginning to end.
If you can binge watch the same show for 8 straight hours, you can focus on one breath.
Obviously, today we know that Freud was incorrect about a lot of things.
Though some women do feel he was right about vibrators.
Oxygen deprivation impacts memory formation.
So if someone gets offended that you don’t remember them, just tell them it’s because they took your breath away.
One of the primary responsibilities of taste is to identify things that are bad for you.
But apparently this doesn’t work for me when it comes to ice cream.
These summarize some first attempts of researchers as, to date, amazing discoveries scientifically are made every day, yet unfortunately without so much in the way of integration.
Which means that right now, we’re not quite smart enough to be able to understand how smart we are.