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The pop psychology section of Barnes & Noble is filled with self-help books that dutifully explain how the brain is the body’s primary erogenous zone.
Now researchers have spliced together a series of fMRI images to make a movie that shows the extent to which that clichéd adage rings true. A video, shown on an iPad this afternoon in a poster session at SfN 2011, indicates that more activity exists in the brains of women during “self-stimulation” to orgasm (this is a family blog so we’ll stick with geek speak) than anything short of an epileptic seizure.
Barry Komisaruk, a Rutgers University psychology professor, marvels: “It seems to activate all of the major brain systems, which we didn’t know before. I don’t know of any other behavioral process that is so powerful.” [Below is a still from the "Brain Symphony" movie, courtesy of Barry Komisaruk.]
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Now researchers have spliced together a series of fMRI images to make a movie that shows the extent to which that clichéd adage rings true. A video, shown on an iPad this afternoon in a poster session at SfN 2011, indicates that more activity exists in the brains of women during “self-stimulation” to orgasm (this is a family blog so we’ll stick with geek speak) than anything short of an epileptic seizure.
Barry Komisaruk, a Rutgers University psychology professor, marvels: “It seems to activate all of the major brain systems, which we didn’t know before. I don’t know of any other behavioral process that is so powerful.” [Below is a still from the "Brain Symphony" movie, courtesy of Barry Komisaruk.]
Only Epilepsy Brings More Activity to Women's Brains than Does `Self-Stimulation' to Orgasm
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