Thank you for your posts, Dthoughts and ShadowOfSelf, I will continue …

Nothing beats a sofa and a television for depression. (11:11)

We will see this diagram again so don’t worry if you haven’t absorbed it.(11:16)

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Yes, I see a question …

Does this part of the brain have something to do with falling in love?

Yes the caudate nucleus is instrumental in romantic love. It’s also instrumental in sexual desire but only on the left side. The experience of expansive, undirected love has also been reported with a stimulation of the left side of the brain. And from those reports the people didn’t say that they were necessarily thinking of people they loved and going into the feeling they just felt love.

The best word for this in English actually comes from Greek and the word is agape. When Christians say they love everybody, equally, wether they experience it or not they are alluding to a state of consciousness that comes from this word, agape.

There are many varieties of love and yet each one of them seems to implicate the left side of the brain in one way or another.(12:16)