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Finally, as psychiatrist Leonore Tiefer argues, there's something deeply creepy about the medicalization of sexuality, male and female. Once there's a drug to prescribe, doctors will feel the need to establish "norms"--say two orgasms a week--and women who fall short are bound to feel inadequate, unfeminine, even pathological. Better, Tiefer thinks, for them to seek more satisfying relationships or more inspiring partners than rely on a pill for their thrills...
...norepinephrine in the brain. Similarly, I believed that the lover's obsessive thinking about the beloved might be due to decreased brain activity of some type of serotonin. I also knew these three compounds were much more prevalent in some brain regions than in others. If I could establish which regions of the brain become active while one is feeling romantic rapture, that might confirm which primary chemicals are involved. Perhaps these data would help explain the evolutionary roots of romantic love, why we choose one person rather than another, even how people can find and sustain this glorious passion...
...procedure was simple but not easy. First Mashek and I made the participant as comfortable as possible in the scanner--a large, horizontal, cylindrical, cream-colored plastic tube that is open at both ends and extends from above the head to about the waist. After taking preliminary scans to establish basic brain anatomy, the 12-min. experiment started. First the subject looked at the photograph of the beloved on the screen for 30 sec. as the scanner recorded blood flow in various brain regions. Next the subject was shown a large number and asked to count backward...
...prove exaggerated. The changes, Pentagon officials say, will begin happening over the next two years and likely will shift heavy armored forces out of Germany. Many Western bases will stay open; others will be consolidated with nato or local forces. In the east, the U.S. is looking to establish less permanent facilities that can be geared up or down depending on requirements - which may not prove the economic windfall that politicians there are anticipating. "Things will be happening in 2004," Feith told Time. "Expectations that people are going to see extremely large decisions, extremely quickly, are probably overblown. There aren...
Then-dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles voted against the 2001 proposal to establish the fund...