Owning a cat will change your brain. Here's how.
By Laura Elin Pigott
When you cuddle a cat, the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin is rising in both your brains.
https://www.livescience.com/health/mind/owning-a-cat-will-change-your-brain-heres-how
Cats at PG:
Owning a cat will change your brain. Here's how.
By Laura Elin Pigott
When you cuddle a cat, the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin is rising in both your brains.
https://www.livescience.com/health/mind/owning-a-cat-will-change-your-brain-heres-how
Cats at PG:
@gutenberg_org @RuthMalan Are we sure it's oxytocin rather than parasites? Perhaps both?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?