The Brain in Orgasm
So, this is going to have to be one of those brief posts today, but I did want to point your attention at an interesting new 3D animation out there on the human brain in orgasm. This is neat for a number of reasons. For one, it’s about sex, always a popular topic. For another, it’s about brains, and lets face it, brains are awesome. People love brains almost as much as they love sex. And lastly, the team working on this decided to start with women as their test subjects. Health studies have long been criticized for focusing on male anatomy and often neglecting women’s health, or at best, later coming to it as an afterthought. Well, this time the data starts with the ladies.
Here is the video. And for those of you looking closely, that’s over 80 regions of the brain lighting up. The brightest yellow you see signifies the greatest use of oxygen in that area (which is how activity is being measured here). Reds signify activity but at lower levels.
The video was only just presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference last week, and has not yet been peer reviewed for publication. More information on this can be found here at Time Healthland, or here at the NY Daily News, or you can go directly to the video’s initial appearance on The Visual MD’s website.