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Brain Regions Responsible for Optimism Located

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-can-do-this dept.

TaeKwonDood writes "The brain region responsible for believing you can seduce Giselle Bundchen or make a YouTube clone for bobble-head doll movies successful has been located. Surprisingly, it is not in a bottle of Jager, it's in the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala."

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  1. I'm optimistic that you WON'T mod me down by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...despite calling you a lilly-livered nerd-faced card-carrying SCO-fan-club hippo-ass face with a check-sum-faulting 286 for a brain.

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  2. Re:That's nice. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually the brain centers for religious experiences are known too, so we could 'fix' them with a gamma knife.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml

    Muahahaha

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