When We Are Shy
by Silvia Damiano on 20 January 2013
When I was young, I usually tried to hide behind my mum’s skirt while queuing at the supermarket's cashier so people would not engage in conversation with me.
The Pleasure Of Food
by The About my Brain Institute on 1 September 2012
Yum… the pleasure of food: Food can be a mere necessity for some, and a great passion for others. Food activates pleasure circuits in the brain, just like an addictive drug does.
The Pleasure Of Exercising
by The About my Brain Institute on 7 August 2012
It’s understandable that there are pleasures for food, drugs gambling, or sex. Some people, however, find the pleasure from exercise more difficult to comprehend, let alone achieve. Exercise undoubtedly provides extremely good health benefits, including cardiovascular benefits, blood …
Pleasure Of Sex
by The About my Brain Institute on 3 August 2012
The brain’s pleasure centre indicates to us when something is pleasurable and then enforces the desire to achieve that certain feeling again. Certainly this is applicable to all pleasures, but in this instance, we will relate it to sex.
What About Drugs And Pleasure?
by The About my Brain Institute on 29 July 2012
Pleasure is a large part of our lives, and we as humans, spend an enormous amount of time aimed at chieving pleasure. There are some pleasures that are obviously good for us, and are essential to basic survival. Then there are other pleasures, which are not. Causing more than 600 deat …
The Pleasure Of Chocolate
by The About my Brain Institute on 6 June 2012
When hearing the word “chocolate”, what comes to your mind first? Aaahhhh, …ohhhhh, wonderful, delicious, sensual….. Those are just the most common adjectives and utterings I usually hear.
What Turned You On Today?
by Silvia Damiano on 9 May 2012
For those familiar with brain principles, neuroscientists have identified that our brains know how to do one of these two things very well: avoid pain or seek pleasure. As humans, we have always pursued pleasure as an essential part of our survival, devoting time and resources to get …
On Entrepreneurship & The Creative Brain
by Silvia Damiano on 2 May 2012
“Being an entrepreneur means you have to wear many hats”, say the experts. I would like to suggest that being an entrepreneur requires the person to have the ability to use brain circuits that he/she may not have explored before.
Adults With ADHD
by Rhonda Freeman on 3 February 2012
For the person with ADHD there is an additional challenge to manage – the regulation of cognition. Some adults with ADHD can function in life just fine, particularly when their job is in an area that reflects their passion and provides their particular brain with the stimulation it pr …
Psychopaths | Human Predators
by Rhonda Freeman on 2 January 2012
It has been fascinating to the field of psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience in general to study psychopathy, as this population of individuals are severely flawed in the areas of attachment (bonding), moral reasoning, fear responsivity, and empathy.
Emotions & Negotiation
by Relmi Damiano on 6 November 2011
Over recent years, academic research has reconsidered the way we think and value emotions.“I think therefore I am”, a statement proposed by French philosopher Rene Descartes, places in people’s minds the idea that thinking and intellect was all that mattered, and that emotions were to …
Data Visualisation And The Brain
by Phillip Gough on 30 October 2011
Many of the talks and papers I see on data visualisation start by saying something about how we’re generating and storing more data than we can process. The solution they present is, of course, data visualisation.