Brain scans of porn viewers


	Brain scans of porn viewers

wildcat

6-17-2008 6:17 AM

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6-18-2008 4:52 PM

nimish_jose

Waw this is quite an awesome research..... More people should get into such kind of meaningful research for mankind

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Researchers from the University of Picardie Jules Verne were curious about what happens in the brain to cause an erection when men are exposed to certain images. Specifically, they wondered whether "mirror neurons," are involved in the erection response. <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron" linkindex="98" set="yes">Mirror neurons</A> fire both when you do something and when you observe that same thing being done by another. So Harold Mouras and his colleagues showed porn videos to eight men while scanning their brains. (The videos were mixed in with fishing documentaries and other footage that isn't erotic, er, to most people.) Meanwhile, they used a "penile plethysmograph" to determine when the men got erections and how hard they were.  From New Scientist:</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://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/16/brain-scans-of-porn.html"><DIV>Interestingly, the volume of the erections correlated with the strength of activation in a part of the brain called the pars opercularis, which is known to display mirror neuron activity. Even more intriguing, the brain activation, say the researchers, precedes the penile response.
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