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...psychobiologist at Belmont's McLean Hospital, Kety will receive the Lasker Award, known as the "American Nobel," on Oct. 1. According to the foundation, roughly one-fourth of winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes...
...love is when you love the way the other person makes you feel," explains psychiatrist Mark Goulston of the University of California, Los Angeles. "Mature love is when you love the person as he or she is." It is the difference between passionate and compassionate love, observes Walsh, a psychobiologist at Boise State University in Idaho. "It's Bon Jovi vs. Beethoven...
...book, says psychobiologist June Reinisch, head of the Kinsey Institute and co-author of the report with Ruth Beasley, is designed to be a "friendly encyclopedia," telling readers in question-and-answer format everything they ever wanted to know about sex but were too shy to ask. "Most people are pretty ignorant about sex," explains Reinisch. "They believe they know everything they need to know. If you believe you know something, you don't even go looking for answers." Some questions may seem trivial, she concedes, but all deal with vital information that can affect health and well-being...
...perfect for late-night bull sessions, they have no grounding in reality. But they are just a sampling of the brazen assertions offered in two new books, The Chemistry of Love by Michael Liebowitz, a psychiatrist at Columbia, and Science and Moral Priority, by Roger W. Sperry, a psychobiologist from Cal Tech. In fact, it seems that these two scientists, who have had much success in the labs, have a rather inflated idea of what science can do. Both men have been blinded by their own successes into thinking that they can begin to solve society's most intractable problems...
...Psychobiologist Gary Beauchamp of Philadelphia reported that the odor of female guinea pig urine is such a powerful stimulus to the male that it loses interest in mating if its sense of smell is impaired. When Beauchamp removed the male's vomeronasal organ, which relays odor information to the brain, sexual activity declined. In the wild, after the removal of the vomeronasal organ, even guinea pigs near their mates sometimes cannot find them...