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Sorry, we can't fund your research on Domestic violence

Postby sunnysmiles » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:53 pm

Having completed my undergrad in Biology, and knowing that all my friends in their MSc and Phd (hard sciences) get actual STIPENDS (while I struggle with no resources in my MA and am actually working with REAL non-profits)... this kind of stupidity makes me want to take a whole bunch of rocks and throw them at medical science research centres. I am sick of this patriarchal technocratic hegemonic institution that we call 'higher education'.

Bloody hell and three hail mary's:

Nun Study Counters Notion of 'God Spot' in Brain [I need a god spot, like I need a hole in my head]

http://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn. ca/Nun+Study+Counters+Notion+of+'God+Spot'+in+Brain/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=280897063&feedname=CP-HEALTHSCOUT&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) - High-tech MRIs of the brains of a group of nuns suggest there is no single so-called "God spot" in the brain.

Instead, mystical experiences appear to involve a number of brain regions and systems that normally control a variety of functions, including self-consciousness, emotion and body representation, said a Canadian team at the Universite de Montreal.

Their findings were published in the current issue of Neuroscience Letters.

The researchers conducted real-time functional MRI (fMRI) brain scans on 15 cloistered Carmelite nuns, aged 23 to 64. During the brain scan, each nun was asked to relive a mystical experience, rather than to actually attempt to achieve one.

"I was obliged to do it this way, seeing as the nuns are unable to call upon God at will," Dr. Mario Beauregard, of the department of psychology, said in a prepared statement.

The results showed that a dozen different regions of the brain were activated when the nuns relived a mystical experience. The finding contradicts previous research that suggested that a specific brain region may be designed for communication with God.

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