Thursday, May 22, 2008

Social Anxiety Nasal Mist


Appears as though you can now cure your social phobias as easily as your stuffy nose! Simply squirt some mist into your nostrils, and voila! shy no more.

Apparently, according to the BBC news story,

[Scientists] found that people who inhaled the "love hormone" oxytocin continued to trust strangers with their money - even after they were betrayed.

Brain scans showed the hormone lowered activity in the amygdala - a region which is overactive in social phobics.

Drug trials are under way and early signs are promising,


say the swindlers, er, I mean scientists.

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