Article archive / August 1, 2011
Originally published: . Volume 2, No. 12. Source pages: 18.
Dr. Nadia Webb authored a feature article for Scientific American and it’s “Mind Matters,” on the web, “The Neurobiology of Bliss–Sacred and Profane,” Sex in the brain, and what it reveals about the neuroscience of deep pleasure. “
She writes, “The left hemisphere is even preferentially more active among people free of depression and less active among the unhappy. If the brain were a simpler and more cooperative organ, the left hemisphere would be lit up like the Fourth of July during an orgasm. Instead, it is surprisingly silent. Why might this be so?”
Her article can be found at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the- neurobiology-of-bliss-sacred-and-profane
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