The Hormone That Helps You Read Minds


	The Hormone That Helps You Read Minds

Tommolo

8-28-2007 7:12 PM

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medicine, mind, autism, science, research

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8-29-2007 8:17 PM

pkronfield

And.... <drum role> ...... the stuff can be released into our bodies simply by taking "the little blue pill" ... Viagra!!
So go for it, guys!

8-30-2007 10:06 PM

silvanaraihane

well whatever it is that helps you read minds tommolo, I sure would like to read a few sometimes!

9-8-2007 7:42 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Oxytocin also floods our bloodstream during orgasm. .

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We've long accepted that hormones can make you amorous, aggressive, or erratic. But lately neuroscience has been abuzz with evidence that the hormone oxytocin -- which also acts as a neuromodulator -- can enhance at least one cognitive power: the ability to understand the gist of what others are thinking.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?more=1&title=the_hormone_that_helps_you_read_minds"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin" linkindex="100" set="yes">Oxytocin</A> is a peptide hormone composed of nine amino acids. It is produced in the brain (specifically, in the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnocellular_neurosecretory_cell" linkindex="101">magnocellular neurosecretory cells</A> within the supraoptic nucleus and paraventricular nucleus of the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamus" linkindex="102">hypothalamus</A>) and is released into the blood stream</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?more=1&title=the_hormone_that_helps_you_read_minds">Research with rodents and non-human primates has shown that oxytocin, as well as the structurally similar peptide vasopressin, <A href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&list_uids=16890230&cmd=Retrieve&indexed=google" linkindex="103" set="yes">plays an important role in attachment</A> and affiliative behaviors including pair-bond formation, maternal behavior, sexual behavior and separation distress. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?more=1&title=the_hormone_that_helps_you_read_minds"> researchers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?more=1&title=the_hormone_that_helps_you_read_minds"> have suggested that oxytocin</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?more=1&title=the_hormone_that_helps_you_read_minds">may be involved in autism's etiology -- and that oxytocin may have potential in treating it.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2324A287-1F5A-4997-B52D-F5024F42705E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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