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Neuroscientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have mapped the brain injuries -- or lesions -- that result in delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS), a group of rare disorders that leaves patients convinced people and places aren't really as they seem. In a study published in the journal Brain, Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Brain Network Imaging and Modulation and the Associate Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and colleagues reveal the neuro-anatomy underlying these syndromes for the first time.
"How the brain generates complex symptoms like this has long been a mystery," said Fox. "We showed how complex symptoms can emerge based on brain connectivity. With a lesion in exactly the right place, you can disrupt the brain's familiarity detector and reality monitor simultaneously, resulting in bizarre delusions. Understanding where these symptoms come from is an important step toward treating them."
Ah, so that's why...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:36AM
Hey baby, you taken?
All joking aside (I wasn't actually joking) women tend to be a lot more heavily into fantasizing than men -- like in that movie Unfaithful. A stereotypical man will look at a nude photo or porn video while a typical woman will read romance novels and insist on 45 minutes of foreplay before she's "ready."
Well, even if it's a different person, if you perceive somebody to be your lover, it's not really cheating in the betrayal sense.
About the romance novels, though, there are exceptions. I read Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon as light-reading awhile ago and there are very graphic descriptions of foreplay, from the flirting all the way to the bedroom, in great detail (down to the color of the Chinese woman's gray nipples and the fact that they do not yet shave their underarms, with the Japanese spy making her squeal by lightly tugging on her underarm hair). Personally, I found it not only unexpected but revolting. I was at work and expecting a book about manly men blowing shit up*.
I told my female friend about it and she explained to me that Tom Clancy books appeal to military men who are often deployed away from their wives for months or years at a time, and that those passages provide a sort of "romance novel" for lonely men.
* The part at the end was pretty hilarious, after the crew of the ship saves D.C. by stopping the Chinese Nuke, the president Jack Ryan says, "every crew member of this ship is advanced to the next rank and invited to the White House for a beer!" -- but seriously, not at all sarcastically.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:14AM
The autistic spectrum are also into romantic fantasizing [sonichu.com].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:20AM
> 45 minutes of foreplay before she's "ready."
I really hope you're either gay or single and celibate. Face it, womens' bodies work differently from yours, and if you're not willing to put in the effort you don't deserve to be with one. Also? What you probably refer to as "foreplay" IS sex for us. If you think "real sex" is nothing but "stick it in, hump, squirt, go to sleep" you're missing out on a tremendous amount. I pity any female partner of yours.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @01:01PM
Oh so seconded! Foreplay is as much a part of sex as the "sticking it in" bit. Especially as men biologically cannot sustain full bore intercourse for more than about 10 minutes without orgasming and going limp.
Personally I really enjoy the foreplay. Who doesn't want to spend hours having intimate fun with another person? Usually I can recover enough within the time of foreplay to have another go at "poking it", which if timed right with the woman will enjoy even more.
Saying that, not all men are that simple (well, maybe the really desperate who have had a months long dry spell). My girlfriend used to complain that it would take ages to turn me on, lol, but she never minded the results once she did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:52PM
45 minutes? You're doing it wrong. The trick is to be sensual yet aggressive as possible. She wants to be fucked as bad as you do but she needs a connection. She needs to know you WANT HER and not just her pussy. Feel her, caress her, hold her, complement her. Whatever is positive. That will get her cunt dripping in minutes. Women need to be wanted as a whole, not just their hole.
That's why they like mind porn aka romance novels. They want to feel that connection to the man in the novel who's crushing it. I remember talking to an ex about this after she showed me the kind of porn she looked at. Sure there were some pictures (this was late 90's before youtube porn). But the pictures were accompanied by short stories. Few paragraphs with hardcore pictures that went with the story. And yes, they read that shit while masturbating.
(Score: 1) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 24 2016, @11:55PM
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