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• These exercises are now available in thirty independent-living communities and for individuals through the Posit Science Web site.
• brain structure that regulates instinctive behaviors, including sex, called the hypothalamus, is plastic, as is the amygdala, the structure that processes emotion and anxiety.
• hippocampus (the area that turns our memories from short-term to long-term ones)
• In Elizabethan times lovers were so enamored of each other’s body odors that it was common for a woman to keep a peeled apple in her armpit until it had absorbed her sweat and smell. She would give this “love apple” to her lover to sniff at in her absence.
• Oxytocin is sometimes called the commitment neuromodulator because it reinforces bonding in mammals.