The brain is the body that can store various information. Recently unknown brain scans can predict weight gain and sexual life for a period of 6 months.
The new study found women who nucleus accumbens of the brain responds more strongly to food are more likely to gain weight in 6 months.
This condition also happens to sex life, the nucleus accumbens that respond more strongly to erotic images then it is more likely sexually active, at least one sexual partner within 6 months.
"This study shows there is something that really binds the brain response to the behavior in the long run," said researcher Bill Kelley, a psychologist at Dartmouth University, as quoted by LiveScience, Wednesday (18/04/2012).
In this study, researchers recruited 58 college students who previously weighed measuring weight and body mass index. Then by using fMRI, these women are shown pictures of delicious food, the environment, human as well as images of erotic nude and kissing couples.
Yet these women did not know what the purpose of this study. Then the researchers measured blood flow to the brain and see the changes in brain energy use at a given time.
The study reported in The Journal of Neuroscience reported that about half of sexually active women have a strong reaction in the nucleus accumbens, it was women who respond strongly to food has a weight gain of 6 months later.
"The important thing is the reaction to specific behaviors, such as weight gain is only concerned with images of food and not the environment or other images, as well as sexual desire," said Kelley.
The new study found women who nucleus accumbens of the brain responds more strongly to food are more likely to gain weight in 6 months.
This condition also happens to sex life, the nucleus accumbens that respond more strongly to erotic images then it is more likely sexually active, at least one sexual partner within 6 months.
"This study shows there is something that really binds the brain response to the behavior in the long run," said researcher Bill Kelley, a psychologist at Dartmouth University, as quoted by LiveScience, Wednesday (18/04/2012).
In this study, researchers recruited 58 college students who previously weighed measuring weight and body mass index. Then by using fMRI, these women are shown pictures of delicious food, the environment, human as well as images of erotic nude and kissing couples.
Yet these women did not know what the purpose of this study. Then the researchers measured blood flow to the brain and see the changes in brain energy use at a given time.
The study reported in The Journal of Neuroscience reported that about half of sexually active women have a strong reaction in the nucleus accumbens, it was women who respond strongly to food has a weight gain of 6 months later.
"The important thing is the reaction to specific behaviors, such as weight gain is only concerned with images of food and not the environment or other images, as well as sexual desire," said Kelley.
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