Ticklish Part of Brain found

[$Tickletorturer]

http://www.livescience.com/29518-ticklish-laughter-brain.html

If you're like me and love both science and tickling, here's a bit of both.

 

[TMF Jeff]

That was really interesting!

 

[deadlywiffeathr]

That made for very interesting reading! Thanks for sharing. I'd love to know whether the nucleus accumbens activates in tickle-philes, seeing as we claim to get so much pleasure from tickling. Maybe we are wired differently afterall? 😀

 

[TicklesXXX]

I am very sceptical of many of those studies about the brain.

 

[Lord Doctor]

Wasn't this pretty much the assumption to start with?

 

[TicklesXXX]

Wasn't this pretty much the assumption to start with?

That is exactly the problem of many of these "scientific" researches.

 

[milagros317]

Thanks for the link. 😀
And there was an interesting link inside that story, too:

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1578-ticklish-animals.html

 

[$Tickletorturer]

That made for very interesting reading! Thanks for sharing. I'd love to know whether the nucleus accumbens activates in tickle-philes, seeing as we claim to get so much pleasure from tickling. Maybe we are wired differently afterall? 😀

I was wondering the same thing. I'd like to see someone do this test on people with a tickle fetish to find out if maybe we're wired a little differently.

 

[SadCuzNotTcklsh]

I must be missing that part of the brain..... 🙁

 

[CuteJill143]

"However, humorous laughter also activates an area of the brain involved in "higher order" functions, as well as a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which is thought to be part of the brain's "pleasure center." Ticklish laughter did not activate these areas."

Tickling activates all of our pleasure centers in the brain apparently =] The study conducted on us might have a different outcome! lol

 

[TickleYouPink]

When I become a zombie, I will tickle brains...