The Scientific American book of love, sex, and the brain The neuroscience of how, when, why, and who we love
Book - 2012
"A fascinating look at how the brain controls our relationships and romances. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and most men and women readers today have learned that the brain is Grand Central Station for our most erotic associations, memories, and secret desires. The latest research shows that the popular myth is true: Sexual orientation and identity is hard-wired, the result of our neurological predisposition, not a choice or result of socialization. We instinctively crave connection and relationship as an essential part of our well-being, self-esteem, and pleasure. The process of achieving and recovering from orgasm ignites the same pleasure centers in the brain as exercise, music, religion, food, alcohol, and drugs. Sexual desire ca...n be triggered by a thought, a smell, a touch, or the sight of an object of desire. These sensorium are located at different parts of the brain, and can be activated indefinitely into our senior years. Filled with little known and fascinating information about the brain. The third Scientific American book in the series about the brain. The core science and latest research is drawn from the prestigious Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines"--
- Subjects
- Published
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass
c2012.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- xiv, 242 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780470647783
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Who Do You Love?
- Introduction: What Is This Thing Called Love?
- So What Is Love?
- Love Is a Many Splendored Thingùand the Greeks Had a Word for Them All
- The Basics Of Your Brain In Love And Sex
- I've Got You Under My Skull: Love in Your Brain
- You Make Me Feel So Good: The Pleasure Center
- The Very Thought of You
- How Scientists Research Love and Sex in Your Brain
- Chapter 1. Born to Love: Why People Need People
- Do You See What I See? How Mirror Neurons Connect Us
- The Dangers of Involuntary Mind Merging
- The Chemistry of Love
- Love Is Everywhere: Where Love Grows in the Brain
- A Brain Unable to Love: Inside the Brain of a Psychopath
- Baby Face, YouÆve Got the Cutest Little Baby Face
- Learning to Love
- His Brain, Her Brain, Gay Brain and Other Brains
- That Old Black Magic: Your Brain in Love
- Friendship, Such a Perfect Blendship: Or: or: With a Little Help from My Friends
- Searching for God in Your Brain
- Epilepsy, the Temporal Lobe, and
- The Evolutionary Roots of God Thou
- Technology, Science, an
- Sex in Bits and Bytes: The Future
- But What of Love?
- About the
- 6.14. Concentrate
