'Love spray' being developed?

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Could we reduce love to a pill? Maybe, says expert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2009 (Reuters) — Could a pill or a squirt up your nose save your marriage? Maybe, according to a researcher who is studying the chemical basis of that most elusive of emotions -- love.

"Biologists may soon be able to reduce certain mental states associated with love to a biochemical chain of events," Young, of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote in the journal Nature.

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Love spray being developed by scientists

Love really could be a drug, say scientists, who believe that one day the feelings may be induced by popping a pill or smelling perfume.

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'Love potion' being developed

Love is in the air...or a nose spray

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Love is a drug, scientists find

Chemical reaction: Dr Young says circuitry and neurochemicals underlie love. (AAP: Paul Miller )

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Is love just a chemical cocktail

A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals?

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It could be as easy as popping a pill: Scientists race to unlock 'love drug'

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Scientists To Develop ‘Love Spray’ Soon!

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Behavioral Neuroscience

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Behavioral neuroscience is the main research interest of more than 30 Faculty in the Neuroscience Program. Strengths include computational and functional imaging studies of brain alterations in drugs dependence, neurobiology of learning and memory, alterations of cognitive function in ageing, psychobiology of motivation, regulation of neuroendocrine functions, molecular and neurochemical substrates of social behavior and fear conditioning, functional integration of motor and vestibular information in control of eye movements, neural basis of visual attention and neural substrates of motor control in normal and pathological conditions.

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Larry J. Young

Principal Investigator

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Cell phone used as sociometer

Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that cellphones may be used to give insight in periodicities of human behavior, human group behavior and more: separate the rich from the poor, the sick from the healthy, even the outgoing from the introverted.

clipped from www.forbes.com What Your Cell Phone Knows About You Sandy Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Research program, has focused his work on that unlikely task: using gadgets as simple as a cell phone to better understand the quirks and patterns of human behavior. Pentland's experiments began with what he calls a "sociometer," a simple badge-like device that hangs from a subject's neck and records his or her movements, tone of voice, and location. A cell phone can do almost exactly the same thing as a sociometer, the only difference being that it's not around your neck. It talks to cell towers and can tell your location, it has Bluetooth to scan for other devices, and some even have accelerometers to measure motion. clipped from labcast.media.mit.edu The Media Lab clipped from www.media.mit.edu Human Dynamics Principal Investigator: Alex (Sandy) Pentland clipped from hd.media.mit.edu People Publications Research Topics clipped from hd.media.mit.edu Social Network from Mobile Phone Usages

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The Wisdom of the Crowds -- Humans Flock Like Sheep and Birds

A study has been published showing that humans flock like sheep and birds,

clipped from wwwnotes2.leeds.ac.uk Why we follow the masses like sheep Only five per cent of people in a crowd need to know where they are going for all the rest of them to follow their example. When fewer than five per cent of the crowd know where they want to go, everybody ends up wandering in circles. Furthermore, when they do manage to get from A to B they are often unable to explain how they got there. clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Professor Krause, with PhD student John Dyer, conducted a series of experiments where groups of people were asked to walk randomly around a large hall. Within the group, a select few received more detailed information about where to walk. Participants were not allowed to communicate with one another but had to stay within arms length of another person. clipped from ts-si.org “But what’s interesting about this research is that our participants ended up making a consensus decision despite the fact that they weren’t allowed to talk or gesture to one another. In most cases the participants didn’t realise they were being led by others.”

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