Word: braine
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...about the South and about moving to the North. What do you think about the role of the South in the presidential election? The South has always stood for the visceral part of the country. Politics has to address more parts of the body than just the brain and the Democrats have to be reminded of that every time. Obama is cool and cerebral, but I've always thought he is a kind of unifier of the bodily parts of the country because he exudes calm and it doesn't seem like a fake calm. He walks along like...
Imagine being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, the most common—and deadly—type of brain tumor. Now imagine that with a single injection, your brain cells could be engineered to secrete a protein that would eliminate the tumor...
...what about when the brain goes the other way? What about when racism isn't an unconscious bias you wish you didn't have but a hatred you embrace? It's hard to know how ordinary human brains become so twisted, but the problem may begin with our ability to fathom time...
...brain, of course, is not all amygdala, and there are higher regions that can talk sense to the lower ones. Phelps cites studies showing that when blacks and whites are flashed pictures of faces from the other race so quickly that the subjects weren't consciously aware of seeing them, their amygdalae reacted predictably. When the images were flashed more slowly so that subjects could process them consciously, the anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--regions that temper automatic responses--kicked...
Phelps conducted other studies in which the images included such friendly faces as Will Smith's and Harrison Ford's and found that this helped control the amygdala too. "The more you think about people as individuals," she says, "the more the brain calms down...