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Brain scans find the penis at last
New Scientist ^ | 25JUN05 | N/A

Posted on 07/02/2005 5:55:22 AM PDT by QwertyKPH

AT LAST we know where the penis is represented in the male brain.

The genitalia's location on the "homunculus", the brain's map of body parts, has been in dispute since the 1920s. Now Christian Kell at the University of Frankfurt in Germany has put eight men into an MRI scanner to help settle the question. Using a soft brush, Kell stroked parts of each volunteer's body while recording brain activity.

Each man's penis was represented in the same place - flanked by the areas for the toes and abdomen - Kell told the Organisation of Human Brain Mapping annual meeting in Toronto. "The only depressing thing," he says, "is that the representation is very small."


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brain; brainscan; homunclus; mri
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To: MarMema
I have this one on the fridge as a reminder


41 posted on 07/02/2005 8:26:46 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: TADSLOS

That's good. I like it.


42 posted on 07/02/2005 9:13:03 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: pax_et_bonum
How've you been?

I'm doing great! Busier'n a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest which is good. Makes the time fly...43 days til R&R! Wooohoooo!

How are you doing? Seriously - everything OK now?

43 posted on 07/02/2005 10:13:52 PM PDT by Allegra (On the Rocks With Salt, Please...)
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To: Dashing Dasher; Jersey Republican Biker Chick; pissant

You're very observant, Miss Dasher!


44 posted on 07/03/2005 4:35:16 AM PDT by Argh
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To: LibertarianInExile
"Sorbonne"

LOL. I'll have to "bone-up" on my history, I guess.

Some say the inventor of the hot dog was a guy named Feuchtwanger.

45 posted on 07/03/2005 11:20:25 AM PDT by melt (A slimy Michael Moore "film" sticks to you like grime.)
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