You’ve heard it before – during moments of overwhelm, take slow, deep breaths. But how exactly does controlling our breath influence our physiology and ultimately impact our mental well-being?
Tag Archives: autonomic nervous system
May
17
Stop, You’re Making Me Blush
posted by UCSDNeuro
I want to take you back to the most embarrassing moment of your life. Come on, you know what that was. For some people it was giving a presentation in front of a large audience. For some it involved saying or doing something really stupid, perhaps in front of someone you were attracted to; it […]
December
21
Can a corpse have an orgasm?
posted by Catie Profaci
Can a corpse have an orgasm? It’s not entirely unlikely [1]. The clue comes from patients with spinal cord injuries. Let’s start with the spinal cord, and we’ll come back to dead bodies in a bit. Traffic Jam The spinal cord–a long thin bundle of nervous tissue running from the base of the […]
June
11
Technicalities of the Tingles: The science of sounds that feel good. #ASMR
posted by kkiritah
“I wanted someone speaking in lightly accented English. And I wanted them talking to me about jewelry, slowly and deliberately.” — Andrea Seigel, This American Life #491: Tribes (aired March 29, 2013) Now that NeuWriteSD’s gender month is over, I thought I’d ease our readers back into the usual routine with a scientifically-stimulating but slightly […]
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