All Posts: neuroscience

• The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

  Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in the School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.

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• Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound

  Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.

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