{"id":11548,"date":"2010-08-08T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2279"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T21:09:23","slug":"study-brain-protects-itself-when-thinking-about-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/study-brain-protects-itself-when-thinking-about-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Brain Protects Itself When Thinking About Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tShihui Han of Peking University, China, found activity in brain regions<br \/>\n\tthat normally deal with negative emotions and self-awareness are<br \/>\n\tdampened when we process ideas about death. Han and colleagues placed 20<br \/>\n\tvolunteers in functional MRI brain scanners while death-related words,<br \/>\n\tsuch as graveyard, corpse, behead and slay, flashed up on a screen.<br \/>\n\tNeutral and negative words were also displayed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727723.900-human-brains-have-life-of-brian-mechanism.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shihui Han of Peking University, China, found activity in brain regions that normally deal with negative emotions and self-awareness are dampened when we process ideas about death. Han and colleagues placed 20 volunteers in functional MRI brain scanners while death-related words, such as graveyard, corpse, behead and slay, flashed up on a screen. Neutral and &#8230; <a title=\"Study: Brain Protects Itself When Thinking About Death\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/study-brain-protects-itself-when-thinking-about-death\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}