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2010-04-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Botox may diminish the experience of emotion

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Posted by tu3031 2010-04-21 13:09|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 That explains a lot about Pelosi and most of Hollyweird.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-21 14:45|| 2010-04-21 14:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Do you smile because you're happy, or are you happy because you are smiling?

Tell ya the truth, I don't think Pelosi knows what her face is doing at any given time...

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-21 15:03|| 2010-04-21 15:03|| Front Page Top

#3 What emotion goes with Pelosi's deer-in-the-headlights look?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-04-21 16:03|| 2010-04-21 16:03|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 What emotion goes with Pelosi's deer-in-the-headlights look?

Well, I would be happy.

Oh, wait. You didn't mean actual headlights, did you?

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-21 16:18|| 2010-04-21 16:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Geek content alert for what follows.

There is a growing body of neuroscience evidence gathered over the last 10 yrs or so that strongly suggests that when we imagine concepts, situations or internal events (such as emotion) we also mentally simulate those events by partially activating the same neural networks that we would if we were experiencing directly.

Combined with evidence that the brain is affected by the limbic system as well as sending messages out, this adds up to a much greater body/mind/emotion bond that some believed in the past.

i.e. it may in fact be more difficult (not impossible, but more difficult) to feel emotions that are usually reflected on the face if the face is partially paralzyed.

Posted by lotp 2010-04-21 18:10|| 2010-04-21 18:10|| Front Page Top

#6 And, you know, the thing about a shark... she's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until she bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'....

Posted by Quint 2010-04-21 20:44|| 2010-04-21 20:44|| Front Page Top

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