Posted on 12/18/2015 1:46:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
It seems those warm feelings associated with the season actually activates a response in the brain. And for those who could care less about tinsel-strewn trees and red-nosed reindeers, there are specific regions of their brains that simply won't react to yuletide images.
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Why does this matter? Well, the researchers suggested that locating the Christmas spirit in the brain can help reverse the "bah humbug" syndrome – an unscientific diagnosis - that threatens Christmas for others.
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"Who knows? Maybe someday there will be a complex machine that can generate the Christmas spirit in people," joked Bryan Haddock, a physicist at Rigshospitalet, a hospital affiliated with Copenhagen University, where the study was conducted.
Haddock, who said he wrote the study on a hot day in August, did not take the results too seriously. In the conflicts of interest section, he wrote that while there were none, they called 'dibs' on any profitable non-invasive or even invasive treatment of bah humbug syndrome.
"We are currently preparing a patent application on a Santa's hat that you can buy for family members with symptoms," he wrote. "When they start grumbling at Christmas dinner, with the touch of a button you can give them electric stimulation right in the Christmas spirit centres."
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Well, Obola doesn’t have this problem, and can’t be studied:
His family doesn’t celebrate Christmas - like all Muslims! - and “he” doesn’t have a brain.
My daughter is old enough to hint today that she knows Santa is not real. I explained to her that Santa Claus will forever be real in our hearts.
Yea, but this scientist is convinced that global warming is real.
Criminals should get disability because they have a disease, preventing them from having warm fuzzies /s
I can't take seriously any writer who uses this tortured construction to express the opposite of what is actually stated. Back to English class with you!
Bah, Humbug!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
That baby's been peer reviewed, Perfessor. The science is settled.
The grant writer gets a B plus for concocting the most creative waste of research funding reported this week.
Be sure to also point out that ALL humans have this area, so that the mooslimes will begin excising that area.
hey, Cheese Itkowitless, it's couldN'T care less you silly cow you
yes ..... it resides exactly where logic resides...... and that is why libtards dont like CHRISTMAS....
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Words mean things, and when you say something it should make sense.
First pedantic post of the day for me.
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