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January 2, 2009 in Brain, Depression, ethics, healthcare, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, psychiatry, psychology, Science, social phobia, technology | Tags: agency, betrayal, bioethics, choice, con artist, control, fear, finances, forgiveness, free will, freedom, intimacy, love, manipulation, medical ethics, money, neuroscience, oppression, oxytocin, power, prejudice, sex, stigma, trust | Leave a comment
First Published May 29, 2008.
It turns out that trust is chemical, at least according to modern neuroscience and research into oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the neuron part of the pituitary gland that has long been known to strengthen uterine contractions in childbirth and to start milk production in breast feeding. More recently, scientists have started to understand its role in brain and behavior with key role in trust. Read the rest of this entry »
Modern medicine for manipulation of the mind
May 29, 2008 in Brain, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, Neurology, psychiatry, psychology | Tags: agency, betrayal, bioethics, choice, con artist, control, Depression, ethics, fear, finances, forgiveness, free will, freedom, intimacy, love, manipulation, medical ethics, money, neuroscience, oppresion, oxytocin, power, prejudice, sex, social phobia, stigma, suffering, trust | 3 comments
It turns out that trust is chemical, at least according to modern neuroscience and research into oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the neuron part of the pituitary gland that has long been known to strengthen uterine contractions in childbirth and to start milk production in breast feeding. More recently, scientists have started to understand its role in brain and behavior with key role in trust. Read the rest of this entry »
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