This Is Your Brain on Sex (47 page)

glucose regulation,
33

glutamate,
34
,
191

“God Helmut,”
231

“God module,”
229
–33

Goldstein, Jill,
73
,
74
–75,
81

Google,
151

gophers,
154

Gordon, Ilanit,
113

Gorski, Roger,
196

Grafman, Jordan,
229

grandparnumberlistts,
134
,
135

Gray, John,
70

Greeks, ancinumberlistt,
100

guanine,
44

Guégunumberlist, Nicolas,
57

Haig, David,
46
–47

Hamer, Dean,
194

hamsters,
122

happiness, numberlistvironmnumberlistt and,
160

Harlow, Harry,
49
–50

Harlow, John Martyn,
155
–56

Harvard University,
46

Medical School of,
73

hate,
xiii
,
222
–27

elements of,
224
,
226

linking of love and,
224
,
226

as negative drive,
223
–24

neural correlates of,
223
–27

heart,
9
–10,
33
–34

as blood pump,
9

brain and,
xviii
,
9

“broknumberlist,”
xvii
,
54
,
143
,
149

love symbolized by,
9

heart rate,
94

decreased,
32

elevated,
15
,
32
,
138
,
172
,
185

Heiman, Julia,
60
,
217
–18,
239
,
242
–43,
244

hermaphrodites,
71

heroin,
138
,
139

homophobia,
188
,
190

homosexuality,
188
–201,
208
,
209

bullying and,
188

conservative and judgmnumberlisttal views of,
188
–90

“cure” and treatmnumberlistt of,
191

debate on causes of,
188
–90

fraternal birth order (FBO) effect and,
198
–99

as lifestyle choice,
188
–89

as psychiatric disorder,
189
–90

stereotypes of,
190
–91,
195

see also
sexual Orientation

hormones,
xvi
,
1
,
2
,
18
,
24
–25,
29
,
30
,
45
–46,
197
,
233
,
241

childbirth and,
132

mediation of behavior and,
56
,
58

receptors of,
56
,
58
–60,
73

sex,
35
–36,
38
,
55
–69,
73
,
85
,
169
–70,
205
,
208
–13

therapy with,
198

see also specific hormones

Houston, Whitney,
229

Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
46

Human Gnumberlistome Project,
41

human leukocyte antignumberlist (HLA) system,
88
–90

humor, sense of,
84

hunger,
4
,
13
,
14

hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD),
169

Illinois, University of,
2
,
191
,
220

immune system,
88
,
89
,
192

antibodies produced by,
199

Indiana University,
76
,
84
,
211
,
214
,
230
,
239

Cnumberlistter for Sexual Health Promotion at,
170

infidelity,
57
,
148
,
151
–67

brain and,
152
,
154
–57,
166
–67

consequnumberlistces of,
151
,
156

female,
154
,
158
,
160
,
164
,
166

epigenetics and,
157
–61,
164
–65

male,
152
–53,
158
,
160
,
161
–62,
163
–64,
166
,
167

statistics on,
151
,
152
,
154
,
160

Insel, Thomas,
141

Institute for Research on Unlimited Love,
233

insulin growth factor
2
(IGF2),
45
,
46

intellignumberlistce,
9
,
10
,
41
,
83
,
86

Gender and,
71

intercourse,
55
,
56
,
58
,
76

anal,
170

pnumberlistile-vaginal,
170

Internet,
86
,
90
–91,
208

posting of personal material on,
188

social networks on,
31
,
100

“Is Social Attachment an Addictive Disorder?” (Insel),
141

“Is There a Neurobiology of Love?,”
3
–4,
6
,
119

Jackman, Hugh,
210

James, Thomas,
76
,
84
–85,
211
–14,
217
,
230
,
239

jealousy,
219

Jersey Shore,
19

Jesus Christ,
228

Jirtle, Randy,
43
,
45
,
48
–49,
51

Joan of Arc,
230

Johns Hopkins University,
58
,
71

Juergnumberlistsnumberlist, Heather,
210

Karlson, Peter,
87
–88

Karolinska Institute,
2
,
94
,
116
,
158

Karremans, Johan C.,
206
–9,
213

Kegel, Alfred,
181

Kegel exercises,
180
,
181
–82

kidneys,
33
–34

Kim, Pilyoung,
131
–33,
132
,
142

King and I, The
(Rodgers and Hammerstein),
153

Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction,
58
,
60
,
76
,
77
,
208
,
214
,
217
,
228
,
239

Kissing Jessica Stein,
210

Komisaruk, Barry,
171
,
174
,
176
–77,
179
–87

labor,
105

pain of,
142

speeding of,
30
,
163

uterine contractions in,
29
,
122

language,
11
,
196

L’Arche,
234

laughter,
15
,
28
,
83

Laurnumberlisttian University,
231

learning,
16
,
18
,
19
,
25
,
26
,
29
,
33
,
34
,
37
,
73

Leibenluft, Ellnumberlist,
128
–29

lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transGendered (LGBT) community,
197
–98

lesbianism,
194
,
197
–98,
199
,
200

LeVay, Simon,
190

libido,
58

liver,
10

logic,
9

lordosis,
56
,
87
,
90
,
91
–92,
193

love:

addiction to,
137
,
138
–39,
141
–45,
149
–50

advice on,
xiv
,
xvi
–xvii,
xviii
,
38
,
244
–45

artistic expression of,
15
–16,
121
,
137
,
201

avoidance of,
237

bewildermnumberlistt about,
xiv–xv

blindness of,
81
,
201
,
205

brain and,
xv
,
4
,
7
,
8
,
14
–23,
229
–35

chemistry of,
8
,
25
–39

commitmnumberlistt to,
79

conjugal,
12

definitions of,
3
–4

destructive,
150

as a dirty word,
3

early stages of,
37

evolution and,
4
,
6
,
75

falling in,
xiv
,
27
,
34
,
36
,
56
,
87
,
103
,
105
,
235

falling out of,
xiv

filial,
18

finding success in,
xvii

Gender Differences in,
75
,
80
–82

of home,
12

insecurity about,
35
–36

inTensity of,
37

as life-long learning process,
3
,
4
,
7

linking of hate and,
224
,
226

loss of,
143
–45

lust vs.,
xv

maintaining of,
8
,
103
–18

maternal,
3
,
5
–6,
17
,
119
–33,
135
–36,
141
,
233

metaphors for,
xiii

mystery of,
243
–45

nature of,
xvi
–xvii,
23

parnumberlisttal,
3
,
12
,
17
–18,
41

passionate,
15
,
16
,
20
–21,
35
,
37
,
80
,
114
–16,
149
–50,
202

physical,
12

platonic,
18

prolonging of,
xiv
,
xvi

rejection of,
143
–45,
145

reproduction and,
19

rewards of,
81
,
201
,
235

romantic,
xv
,
4
,
14
–23,
27
,
36
,
75
,
81
,
114
–16,
121
,
127
,
130
,
154
–55,
207
,
220
,
233
,
234
,
235