Dr. Nan

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Understanding your emotional operating systems

Jun 19, 2018

I believe that having a deeper understanding of our wired-in emotional operating systems frees us to be better regulators of them. As I have heard it said, we always know what's on our mind, but we don't always know what mind we are in. Affective neuroscience gives us...

Donating Orgasms to Science

Jan 31, 2014

As I drive the five miles from my house in suburban New Jersey to Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center, I take a mental inventory of my data. So far, I have collected 13 self-stimulation orgasms but only 6 orgasms brought about through partner stimulation. The goal...