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In a pivotal study from 2010, Guillaume Dumas, assistant professor of computational psychiatry at the University of Montreal, showed that the brains of human participants mirrored each other on a neurological level when engaging in activities together, such as making funny, meaningless gestures with their hands while watching each other.

Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another

neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative... See more

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

For instance, perhaps 10% of women (and 80% of men) have a more masculine sexual

David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh

In contrast, baby brains modify across vast territories.

David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Todd A. Hare et al. use functional MRI techniques to show that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are crucial to the exertion of self-control. They found the vmPFC encoded the value placed on pleasurable, but ultimately self defeating behavior versus that placed on long-term goals. Another... See more

Self-control

The structures along the midline of the brain are devoted to your inner experience of yourself, those on the side are more concerned with your relationship with your surroundings.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Our brains are constantly making connections that are outside our awareness.

Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past

As writer Natalie Angier says, your clitoris is a proper little brain. In her book Woman: An Intimate Geography, Angier explains how the clit gathers information from your conscious, unconscious, hypothalamus, neocortex, and peripheral nervous system. This “mini brain” tracks it all on your behalf, without you even knowing it. She has the ability

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Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh

David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Self-control

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past

Regena Thomashauer • Pussy